CM9 Advice Please

[HalfCocked]

Need some opinions. I am new to this form and new to Kahr but not new to guns in general. I just bought a CM9 yesterday. When I went to take it down for the initial cleaning I could not find the index mark on the slide. There is one on the frame but absolutely nothing on the slide. I was able to take it down by just lining up the half round hole with the take down/slide lock.
I emailed Kahr and customer support has never heard of this happening before. They offered to inspect the gun at the factory. I am sure I can make some sort of small mark on the slide to serve as the index. So in you opinion do I: 1). return the gun to the gun shop; 2.) send to the factory; 3.) make my own mark and head out to the range for some fun.
I want this gun to be my EDC but when it gets out of the factory without the index, I start to wonder what else slipped by them....

[kerby9mm]

My mk 9 has no mark on the slide and I bought it 18 months ago. I called Kahr about something else told them and they had never heard of it back then either. So goes the BS.

[joshh]

cant you just push it back til you see the notch line up with the takedown post/slide release? i always thought it was odd that they put the lines there but never thought much of it because it is nothing compared to the warning labels on it to make it MA compliant. i am really considering sending the slide out to have it milled (rounded and lightened) and take off the warning labels!!!

[jocko]

yup ur

Need some opinions. I am new to this form and new to Kahr but not new to guns in general. I just bought a CM9 yesterday. When I went to take it down for the initial cleaning I could not find the index mark on the slide. There is one on the frame but absolutely nothing on the slide. I was able to take it down by just lining up the half round hole with the take down/slide lock.
I emailed Kahr and customer support has never heard of this happening before. They offered to inspect the gun at the factory. I am sure I can make some sort of small mark on the slide to serve as the index. So in you opinion do I: 1). return the gun to the gun shop; 2.) send to the factory; 3.) make my own mark and head out to the range for some fun.
I want this gun to be my EDC but when it gets out of the factory without the index, I start to wonder what else slipped by them....

going off halfcocked IMO. That little mark is so so hard to see even if it was there. U did the right and proper thing by lning up the half moon on the slide lock with the cut out in the slide. Pay attention to that and u will never have an issue. I think kahr is slowly getting away form that witness mark. . Why some have it and some don't is odd but I certainly would not box up the slid eto have them ut a mark on the slide either. You good to go, now just shoot the gun like u stoleit..

In essence to make a long story short. LEAVE THE FOKKER ALONE.

[HalfCocked]

Thanks

Thanks guys. itching to head out to the range and see if I can make this "FOKKER" go bang

[jocko]

well the fokker will do betterif u review the kahr tech section andhit on the LUBE CHART and PROPPER PREPPING OF UR KAHR. jUST SAYINB

U have IMO one of thenecst 9mm ultra compacts ever made. Built like a tank, u can't hurt the gun will rounds down range . get to know ur gun before that first outting and it is alot more fun to. This is a good forum who will help anyone who ask for it..

[kahrsport]

the cm9 take down is very simple, just align the slide lock 1/2moon and the slide opening... same technology since browning made the 1911 pistol...
same technology for over a 100 years now... i consider myself new to guns and can figure this out pretty easily as dumb as i am...

[Ikeo74]

Thanks guys. itching to head out to the range and see if I can make this "FOKKER" go bang

All this time I thought a "Fokker" was a WWII German Airplane. Live and learn, I guess.

[Scoundrel]

I don't think I've ever paid any attention to the index marks beyond the first time I took mine down while reading the manual. After that I just watch the cutout and put a little pressure on the slide stop pin, and when it gets to the right place it just pops right out.

If everything else looks good, I'd say don't worry about it.

But hey, some photos would be good. We always like looking at other people's guns.

[Alfonse]

The "index" marks aren't nearly as useful as lining up the half-moon opening with the part that comes out through it. Looking at the opening lets me see what is going on and adjust it as I push the slide lock pin out. The index marks are superfluous IMHO.

[JFootin]

Welcome to the forum! There is a wealth of valuable information in the New Member Area and the Kahr-Tech sections of the forum. And read your owner's manual. It is very important that you follow the instructions when reassembling the gun and inserting the slide stop lever. In fact, there is a take-down video on the product page of the Kahr website. Look below the picture and click Videos.

Consider it an advantage not having your slide scarred by the notch! Go shoot it like you stole it! What is amazing is that after a few hundred rounds through it, the gun will be so much smoother than it already is in operation! These guns are real workhorses and built like a tank!

[muggsy]

Those little marks are put there to aid blind shooters in lining up the slide for take down. They work kinda like braille. The way that Jocko shoots one would think that he would use them.

[jocko]

I need

Those little marks are put there to aid blind shooters in lining up the slide for take down. They work kinda like braille. The way that Jocko shoots one would think that he would use them.

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[Tinman507]

[jocko]

tanks, got it.