Hello everyone new member and had some questions?

[TucsonMTB]

Yes. Kahr has been very good about exchanging the longer magazine for a flush fitting magazine. They may ask you to send it in first as part of the exchange, but considering how "useful" it is to many shooters, you won't miss it.

Just for fun, you might want to take it with you to the range. A couple of jamb clearing drills might be good for the soul.

Oh, and thanks for the kind words! I'm sure you will get your chance to be similarly helpful to someone else in the future.

[1984]

My 2 cents from a happy pm9 newbie:

Kahr cautions against ultra cheap ammo. I'd use regular stuff. Nothing cheaper than WWB and remember if your gun show ammo is reloaded it voids the warranty.

Personally I used WWB and gold dot for my break in. And if I had it to do over I'd probably just use the gold dot. The only FTF I had in the first 300 rounds was probably my fault for changing my hold/trigger action but also the bullet looked like crap when I ejected it. Now the tech break in stickie here says use only FMJ for the break in, so I'd differ there I guess, and I am just a newbie to kahr and this site has more collective wisdom, but either way use something quality. Esp for the break in.

Bringing to point two. Use the shorter magazine and keep your wrist locked tight tight tight for the first 200 (or whatever) rounds.

My preferred hold is to hold the gun and wrist the same way I would if I was facing a zombie ninja on PCP trying to knock it out of my hand while the fate of the world rested on me making a bullseye without my pinkie touching anything but the baseplate. Ie I hold it tight. The gun is very small and comfortable. If you get comfortable you might get soft. If you worry about where your shots land and read one of those "diagnostic targets" you might worry about sqeezing or milking or whatever and get soft. Don't. Save that stuff for say rounds 501 and beyond.

Shoot safe but don't bother to concern yourself with accuracy beyond basic safety. The point of the break in is to convince yourself that you can cycle the gun with the magazine it was intended to use for concealment. After you are convinced you can hold the gun properly and cycle it regularly, then you can worry about accuracy, fancy grips, different size magazines, cheaper than dirt ammunition, blah blah blah.

Point being, after several hundred rounds of correct cycling with the factory specs, if you then run into problems its much more likely you'll feel confident the gun itself is true and the problem lies in one of the variables you changed (or one of the variables you changed caused you to alter your grip etc).

And don't use reloads for the next 5 years at least.

[SF_giant84]

Thank you for the advice. The ammo I bought was Federal 115gr FMJ in a white box guy was running a 1 day sale for $9 a box of 50 bought myself 8 boxes. I was told it would be good break-in ammo.

[Bawanna]

I think the recommendation to use FMJ is only because its inexpensive.

Hotter ammo would be a good thing during break in and if a person has money for Gold Dot or other premium carry ammo, by all means use it.

I'm a believer in practicing with what you carry but most, myself included just can't afford to do that.

The Federal should work fine and dandy for for break in.

[1984]

Kahr just says commercial ammo and federal certainly should be quality enough so you should be just fine

Again I only have my own experience to draw on but I'd suggest blaze away as fast as you safely can

Don't go into it mentally counting down from 200 and crossing your fingers hoping your gun is going to "make it" through this

Grip it like you want to arm wrestle it and let loose 8 boxes of fury.

I shot with an empty range but if you are self concious with folks around just let them know you are breaking in a new gun and are going to be shooting a lot, fast, while you do

Have fun - I found my initial expectations wildly exceeded and the only
Hiccup was not the pm9 fault

[1984]

Agreed gold dot is more money

My thought was if I was going to trust the pm as a carry gun I at least wanted a hundred rounds through it firing at life on the line pace since that's my carry ammo and I would want to see it cycle through both mags of gold dot plus p at self defense pace

If I have to do it over again and I probably will I'll likely do the same thing by breaking in the gun and carry ammo at the same time. But I did water down the cost a little with the wwb

[jocko]

what bawanna said is the way to go. shoot what u can afford but do shoot.

[SF_giant84]

I did order some Ranger T ammo 147gr and Speer Gold Dots 124gr +P. I got about 100 each of those to mess around with and see what I prefer for my SD ammo. Only problem is their gonna have to wait till another time since they haven't arrived from UPS yet.

Anyways I'll update you guys later in the day, about to head out and enjoy the nice weather here in Portland, OR by going shooting with my uncle and a couple of my friends. Can't wait to see this baby in action finally!