CW380/P380 Broken Strikers/pin

[sharpetop]

Does any body have serial number range beware of? I've dry fired the hell out of all my firearms for the past 35 to 40 years and never had an issue.

[topgun1953]

So what happened with your P390 during the past 9 months? - did it work okay?

I just got mine.

It's been running fine. A few hundred rounds through the p380 since the last trip to Kahr. I got rid of the cw380 when the trigger pin started working its way out. Just tired of the issues and didn't neet two 380s. Love the p380.

[topgun1953]

Poor HT yes, but QC wouldn't be on Kahr as I'm sure they farm out their HT....and I'm not sure they even check the RC on these, not individually anyway and if they do a batch and check one they have to toss it from the indentation it leaves.. these things can happen to the best of them

agreed, bad batches happen..


outstanding turn around time !! I'll just assume this wasn't an isolated incident and they were well aware of the batch and culled them as soon as they were getting reports of failures...

"Aware of the issue". I hope so. In a few months I had broken strikers in a new cw380 and then twice in this P380

[kenm]

It's been running fine. A few hundred rounds through the p380 since the last trip to Kahr. I got rid of the cw380 when the trigger pin started working its way out. Just tired of the issues and didn't neet two 380s. Love the p380.

Great to hear that it works okay now.
It took me a lot of agonizing over the various pocket guns before I settled on the Kahr P380.
Looking forward to a (hopefully) good relationship with it.

[Whaleman]

My striker also broke just like yours.

[Leucoandro]

New member here. I found this thread while checking to see if Kahr will supply a return shipping for warrant work on a new handgun.

I seem to have the same issue with a CW380. I say seem to, because I have never removed the striker unit for visual inspection, but the firing pin protrudes from the slide (does not move) while the striker is retracted.

I bought it 29 May 2014. I have shot it less than 300 times. Dry fired maybe 50 or 60 times. I am filling out an RA form right now.


Charlie

[topgun1953]

Sorry to hear this. If it is broken, you should be able to push the pin in and hear it rattle she you shake the gun. Kahr covered the costs on all 3 of my broken strikers. 1 on my CW380 and twice on P380. They replaced the slide the second time on the P ... This last spring or so. Don't have the CW any more but carry the P and love to shoot it.
good luck

ps... 300 rounds is about how long each of mine lasted...

[Leucoandro]

topgun1953,

The process you described was how I accidently discovered it was broken. After I fieldstrip and clean a striker, I typically try to actuate the striker to make sure nothing is binding it. After I did that on the CW380, I assembled the gun and found the trigger felt very different. I disassembled the handgun again and noticed the striker was stuck back. I held the striker back and shook it and that is when I heard the firing pin.

Including my Wife's, I have three 380's. A Ruger LCP (Wife's), Kahr CW380, and Glock 42...The Kahr was and still is my favorite.


Charlie

[kenm]

The romance is OVER.
P380 - rubbish??
Had problems from day 1 with this gun.
Did all the advised prep before my first range trip.
At the range. it took 2 hours to get a 100 rounds to fire - after stopping countless times due to the dreaded "click" and no "bang".
The Range Master came to help and said, "Ah, it's that #!!# "xxxxx gun". He struggled with it, trying 3 different major manufacturers' round-nosed ammo (beside the PMC and HPR I was using)
Finally, I took out my trusted Glock 17 and put 30 rounds dead on target before leaving the range - just to get the bad P380 taste out of my system.

Went back couple of days later (yes, cleaned & lubed the thing first, per our Lube Chart)
This time it was almost all clicks. Another Range master came up and played around with it - no luck.

Took my new P380 back to the dealer. He played around with it for a day and I got a call the next day.
"The striker is marking the base of the shell, but not enough to ignite the primer every time"
They've sent it back to Kahr.
Also we noticed that the polymer frame had bits hanging off it when the slide was removed.
Anyway, I ordered a Glock 42 today and will be picking it up early next month.
What an utterly frustrating experience.

[SkeletonSlinky]

Well, guess I'll add my cw380 to the list of broken strikers..was noticing that the trigger felt wrong and so I did the ol' pen in the barrel test (with it unloaded, of course!). Firing pin/striker would not "launch" the pen and sure enough, no pin extended through the breech-face. I disassembled the slide and found that the striker looked just like DJK11's pic..snapped in two. I probably have approximately 3-400 rounds through it and did all the proper prep (thanks Jocko!). I do dry fire just like I do with my pm9 (with no issues in thousand of rounds)...guess I have to give Kahr a call tomorrow. I also noticed that just to the right of the firing pin hole (in the 1st pic..not the end of the extractor..down inside the striker channel) there is another "hole"/dent..is that normal or is it damage after the striker broke? Thanks for your insight!

[gb6491]

Well, guess I'll add my cw380 to the list of broken strikers..was noticing that the trigger felt wrong and so I did the ol' pen in the barrel test (with it unloaded, of course!). Firing pin/striker would not "launch" the pen and sure enough, no pin extended through the breech-face. I disassembled the slide and found that the striker looked just like DJK11's pic..snapped in two. I probably have approximately 3-400 rounds through it and did all the proper prep (thanks Jocko!). I do dry fire just like I do with my pm9 (with no issues in thousand of rounds)...guess I have to give Kahr a call tomorrow. I also noticed that just to the right of the firing pin hole (in the 1st pic..not the end of the extractor..down inside the striker channel) there is another "hole"/dent..is that normal or is it damage after the striker broke? Thanks for your insight!
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Sorry to read of your striker issue (BTW, excellent photos).
As to the other hole, it's normal. That's where the striker channel intersects the pocket that the extractor sits in.
Regards,
Greg

[topgun1953]

Looks like my CW380. I broke the striker twice on my P380. Kahr replaced the entire slide the second time, so not sure what was going on. Could have been just a lot of bad parts. I don't have an exact count, but I'm pushing 1000 rounds through it since. I shoot it nearly every weekend.

[Pointblank]

Hence the old saying about carrying a backup gun: "Two is One, One is None".

[SkeletonSlinky]

Thanks Greg..I was hoping it was something like that and not damage. Hopefully they'll just send me a new striker and I'll be back in business. Good point PB..I carried this broken .380 for a few days without knowing it wouldn't go bang!

[SkeletonSlinky]

Got my new striker today..called Kahr on the 18th and they immediately asked if I wanted to send in my cw380 or if I want to fix it myself. I said I'd just take the striker and fix it myself this time but if this happens again after a few hundred rounds, I'll be sending it in. No problem. Asked if they were having a problem with their strikers and the rep said no..so I guess we'll see. It's an easy fix and it's back in business already!