For those that had followers break, how many rounds before they broke?

[rbishopp]

Scroll up the page a few posts.

[RRP]

I don't want to sound stupid but can someone post a pic of a good and a bad follower please?

See post #56.

[jocko]

I've put about 300 or so rounds and found a broken follower today.

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Is this what others are experiencing ? Not sure when it happened so it appears the mag still functions properly.

on some breakage, the mag will perform OK but in time it will let u down. Put in a new follower and if it breaks one more time, leave it in there and ask kahr to pick up the gun on their dime. I had to send my PMJ9 in after 7 years and total time was 6 days in and out. gtreat service. If a follower gets busted, it is ALL RAMP RELATED and that will not go away until the ramp is modified by Kahr, Some handy gun guys can do the ramp ob themselves, I suggest though to let kahr fix it right, They ade it, they kow how much to take off. I broke my frist follower years back and it never happened until about 3 weeks ago, so I figured twice is one time to many..

I want to think that all the new kahrs today have had the inhouse rampectomy done to them and this busted follower stuff should almost be history. Hopefully the ones we are reading about toda are older guns,. We don't read a 10th of the follower issues as we did about 2 years back. Seen more i thge 40 cal kahrs than 9's but again that explosion of the bang thing in a 40 cal does amazing sh!t upon ejecting, kinda scary if u seen it in slow motion..

[rbishopp]

Yeah they told me the next broken one my gun will have to back to them. I haven't broke one on my cw40 and I have many many many more rounds though it. Try shooting with your fingers crossed. Ha ha.

[RonW]

Service rep at Kahr was pretty fast in responding to my email regarding my follower, they're going to send out a replacement..

[rbishopp]

So last week I found I had a broken follower and emailed Kahr. Yesterday (one week to the day) I reeived the replacement follower in the mail. Had it installed in the mag in just a minute or two and put that mag back in the CM9. Lets hope I'm done using the their customer service. Kahr was easy and fast to work with but I don't want to send in my gun for any reason.

[muggsy]

Not even if Kahr offered to gold plate and engrave it for free?

[muggsy]

The only time that the follower can be struck by the barrel ramp is after the last round is fired. If you stop emptying the gun you won't have the problem. This method also eliminates the problem of the slide not locking back after the last round is fired. No more worries about bullets that nose dive when hand racking the slide. It requires no modifications what-so-ever. The only draw back that I can see is that you have to be able to count to six. This means you, Jocko. I'm surprised that no one has come up with this idea before me. Muggsy, always thinking outside of the box.

[jocko]

Yeah they told me the next broken one my gun will have to back to them. I haven't broke one on my cw40 and I have many many many more rounds though it. Try shooting with your fingers crossed. Ha ha.

bigger frame, less close tolerances, leff broken followers...

[Narkcop]

Why not make steel magazine followers? I know several years ago some of their magazines had steel instead of hard brittle polymer/plastic.

[RonW]

Why not make steel magazine followers? I know several years ago some of their magazines had steel instead of hard brittle polymer/plastic.

Probably to help keep costs down is my guess.... Back to the followers breaking, I've put 700 rounds thru my CW40, and picked up two extra mags along the way so I'm not using the same one over & over & over, but to date I've had no issues at all with the magazines or the pistol....

[BobK]

Just replying to an old thread. My brand new CM9 broke the follower after about the first 100 rounds so the problem still persists. Mine broke in the rear so how does that measure up to the others?

[Alfonse]

Why not make steel magazine followers? I know several years ago some of their magazines had steel instead of hard brittle polymer/plastic.

That is a good question.

I have looked at stainless steel for our aftermarket followers. The cost wasn't much different than machining the aluminum and anodizing. The reason I haven't gone that route is a steel follower like I tried is as hard as the barrel. When the barrel hits the follower, it can ding up the barrel and puts quite a bit more stress on the magazine tube and even the pistol frame.

I decided it was better to let the aluminum get a little ding in it, if the barrel hit it, rather than potentially damage the barrel or magazine tube. Depending on the pistol, the aluminum followers can get a little ding in the front and they also sort of fit to the mag catch as well. It doesn't hurt anything other than the finish on the follower. So, that's why I haven't produced stainless steel followers for sale. I wanted to make sure our parts won't do any damage to anybody's pistol.

It is possible to make a stamped follower from stainless or steel that would have more give. The issue there is the tooling costs in in the tens of thousands of dollars.

[Papersniper]

I've tried to tell some of these folks they have quite the reputation on other boards. They don't seem to care. So at the risk of being labeled negative here's my post rampectomy range report.

The good news. No broken followers, 65 rounds. The bad? See the pic, I think my gun won't handle rounds pushing the overall length limits. Tried wwb 147 again, this happened right away.



One premature slide lock with 115 Fmj. I'm not putting too much stock into that. I just think my imperfect little beast is finicky, and I shall stick to carry ammo like hornady 115 crop that it cycles well.

This is an old post, but I just got a CM9 and had similar problems with Lawman 124 TMJ rounds......Blazer Brass 115 FMJs and Fed. American Eagle 147 fr FMPF rounds did not "nose dive" like in your photo. I've only put about 100 rounds through mine.

[jocko]

This is an old post, but I just got a CM9 and had similar problems with Lawman 124 TMJ rounds......Blazer Brass 115 FMJs and Fed. American Eagle 147 fr FMPF rounds did not "nose dive" like in your photo. I've only put about 100 rounds through mine.

give the gun more rounds, alot of things get right once the gun seats in etc. If your busing followers, then IMO u might have an older version. Kahr has since dome some ramp work on their guns to eliminate busted followers. If you gun breaks one follower, be concenred but relace it and giv ethe gun some more rounds,often times it corrects itself, bgut keep an eye on the follower. Many gbreak and the owner doesnt even know it as the gun willf unction ok for awhile. Twobusted followers the gun n eed to go back, If u contact kahr they will usually send a pickup on thegun and it will come back perfect. IMO let the fix it, not try it yourself. Some good techy peole here can do that rampectomy but ag ain, let kahr do it, if in doubt. Kahrs are not ammo finicky..Just say8n