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As some of you may remember my first outing with my P380
last week was somewhat disappointing to me due to the
couple of failures I got in the first 100 rounds.
The handful of failures in and of itself is probably right in the
realm of the status quo for the 200rd break in but I guess I'd
gotten spoiled by my PM9, PM45 and CW40 in how they functioned
near flawlessly right out of the box.
Plus I was disappointed to not have brought enough ammo to complete
the break in process. I even went out to check if the range counter
had any 380......yep they sure did........$24.......per 25!!!
So needless to say, I quit.
After getting home I ordered some S&B ball ammo from A1 Ammo at a
reasonable price and it was sitting on my doorstep when I got home from my
trip to NY yesterday afternoon.
So today, I decided to take the little P380 for the rest of the break in session.
But first I decided to give the feed ramp and throat a little extra polish with
a slow dremel and bullet felt tip with some metal polish. Then I buffed
up the stripper a tad and for good measure hit the extractor and breach face
with the dremel as well. I also decided to run it a little "wetter" today with a
few extra drops of FP-10 in the right places.
I shot 200 rds of S&B today and I'm happy to report it was a fabulous
session. I did have a few failures but they were all shooter induced
and mainly were of the "nudged the slide stop" variety. But she fed
and ejected like a champ today. At 100rds I ran a bore snake through
it and put a few drops of remoil on the slide rails before continuing
the session . I am extremely pleased at how well this little 380 shoots.
Ergonomically leaves everything in it's class (ie, LCP, P3AT, etc) in the dust.
So with a tad over 300 rds through her I think she's ready to join her
siblings already doing duty in the carry arsenal. Between my Glock26, PM45,
PM9 and P380 I think I've got just about every CCW scenario I can think of
covered. Since getting into these Kahrs I am more in the position of "always
carrying" than I've ever been before.
Here's an updated family portrait....
Locked and loaded with my carry load, the Hornady Critical Defense .380
The more astute of you may notice that I did not include the CW40
in these portraits. That's because it's going on the block in order
to partially fund this P380. As much as I love the CW40 it overlaps
the PM45 and PM9.
Michael-
last week was somewhat disappointing to me due to the
couple of failures I got in the first 100 rounds.
The handful of failures in and of itself is probably right in the
realm of the status quo for the 200rd break in but I guess I'd
gotten spoiled by my PM9, PM45 and CW40 in how they functioned
near flawlessly right out of the box.
Plus I was disappointed to not have brought enough ammo to complete
the break in process. I even went out to check if the range counter
had any 380......yep they sure did........$24.......per 25!!!
So needless to say, I quit.
After getting home I ordered some S&B ball ammo from A1 Ammo at a
reasonable price and it was sitting on my doorstep when I got home from my
trip to NY yesterday afternoon.
So today, I decided to take the little P380 for the rest of the break in session.
But first I decided to give the feed ramp and throat a little extra polish with
a slow dremel and bullet felt tip with some metal polish. Then I buffed
up the stripper a tad and for good measure hit the extractor and breach face
with the dremel as well. I also decided to run it a little "wetter" today with a
few extra drops of FP-10 in the right places.
I shot 200 rds of S&B today and I'm happy to report it was a fabulous
session. I did have a few failures but they were all shooter induced
and mainly were of the "nudged the slide stop" variety. But she fed
and ejected like a champ today. At 100rds I ran a bore snake through
it and put a few drops of remoil on the slide rails before continuing
the session . I am extremely pleased at how well this little 380 shoots.
Ergonomically leaves everything in it's class (ie, LCP, P3AT, etc) in the dust.
So with a tad over 300 rds through her I think she's ready to join her
siblings already doing duty in the carry arsenal. Between my Glock26, PM45,
PM9 and P380 I think I've got just about every CCW scenario I can think of
covered. Since getting into these Kahrs I am more in the position of "always
carrying" than I've ever been before.
Here's an updated family portrait....
Locked and loaded with my carry load, the Hornady Critical Defense .380
The more astute of you may notice that I did not include the CW40
in these portraits. That's because it's going on the block in order
to partially fund this P380. As much as I love the CW40 it overlaps
the PM45 and PM9.
Michael-
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