Bawanna's PM45 Preflight Report

[G26ster]

Pictures, pictures, pictures Congrats on the new toy!!!

[Bawanna]

Promised pictures. My photographer was wicked fast on this batch. The target is the first 10 rounds out of the gun. # 1 was smack in the bull, the little stray down low was when the janitor hit me in the back with a broom?
I knew that went astray as soon as it went off, pure anticipation, a total screwup for a seasoned untrained certifiable professional like myself. No excuses.
Must be good, the photographer now wants one to call his own, one of the Wynn black DLC models, he's got more marbles than me.

[hsart]

Very impressive results. A lot of rounds fired and a lot could have gone wrong and didn't. I have had excellent results in my PM45 with the aluminum Blazer rounds and let us know how other ammo runs through it. I also think that Kahr has worked out the few bugs that these tight small 45s have had in the early production runs - like the bevelled strippers, etc. It actually would be valuable info to have - what has Kahr done to slightly modify/upgrade guns that have bugs when they first come on the market. Would give us all more practical info on which ones may not be the best to buy used or at least int he very early production days. Anyway congrats on your new Tiny!!

[kahrseye]

Promised pictures. My photographer was wicked fast on this batch. The target is the first 10 rounds out of the gun. # 1 was smack in the bull, the little stray down low was when the janitor hit me in the back with a broom?
I knew that went astray as soon as it went off, pure anticipation, a total screwup for a seasoned untrained certifiable professional like myself. No excuses.
Must be good, the photographer now wants one to call his own, one of the Wynn black DLC models, he's got more marbles than me.

Damn fine shootin. It's great when a new gun works the way it's supposed to. By the way, does yours go BOOM?:75:

[Bawanna]

Damn fine shootin. It's great when a new gun works the way it's supposed to. By the way, does yours go BOOM?:75:

Oh yeah good boom. I was surprised at the pictures, I remember seeing Wynns and thought wow that thing kicks like a mule, I didn't think it was that bad at all but my pics look like it's tearing my arm off too. Guess it's so fast you don't realize how much flip is happening.
I'm so glad it likes Speer Gold Dots, and it seems to like my reloaded Rainier TMJ's so life is good.

[snuffy]

Did ya remember.

http://kahrtalk.com/kahr-tech/207-ka...ocktalk-2.html

[Bawanna]

Did ya remember.

http://kahrtalk.com/kahr-tech/207-ka...ocktalk-2.html

I'm not sure I"m remembering the right thing snuffy but my serial # is SV14xx which according to that list that I thank you for sending is Aprox July 2009. Not sure where that puts mine in the overall scheme of things but it's all good. I started to say so far but I'm not even going there. It's great. PERIOD.
If I fell out of a boat and lost this thing, I'd order another one just like it tomorrow. It's a keeper.

[Bawanna]

Guys, I promise to stop bragging and showing off in a year or so. I truely am not a natural good shot so when you see minute of pie plate or better from me you know the gun is doing well.
The little group circled is 10 rounds of Gold Dot, I was aiming at the line between the 7 and 8. After the circle I ran it back out to between 7 and 10 yards, closer to 7 and put 7 more in the circle but 3 got away. The photographer refused to photograph such sloppiness.

Even got a piece of brass on the fly, photogs doing good.

[wyntrout]

Bawanna', good shooting! Mine is newer, I guess... the serial number is SV35xx. Mine had the little notch and no bevel originally. My photos make it look like the gun kicks more because I don't hold it down as much as I should. I let it rise.
I held the P380 down on purpose and that was easy. Boomer will take a bit more effort.
My back's killing me and I'm gonna jump in the shower. I did fire up the generator and it ran! Surprised me... but it kicked the crap out of me with scrapes, scratches, probably bruises. It was a b!tch to manhandle in a limited area... around 480 pounds.
Later guys.
I'm so relieved and happy for you, Bawanna'. Now I guess we can start working on Jocko.
Wynn

[Michael W.]

I'm not sure I"m remembering the right thing snuffy but my serial # is SV14xx which according to that list that I thank you for sending is Aprox July 2009. Not sure where that puts mine in the overall scheme of things but it's all good. I started to say so far but I'm not even going there. It's great. PERIOD.
If I fell out of a boat and lost this thing, I'd order another one just like it tomorrow. It's a keeper.

Mine is SV24XX....so where does that put it? There's no fired casing with
any of my Kahrs, do they only do that for Mass. guns?

But really, since both yours and mine rock who cares

M-

[Michael W.]

Promised pictures. My photographer was wicked fast on this batch. The target is the first 10 rounds out of the gun. # 1 was smack in the bull, the little stray down low was when the janitor hit me in the back with a broom?
I knew that went astray as soon as it went off, pure anticipation, a total screwup for a seasoned untrained certifiable professional like myself. No excuses.
Must be good, the photographer now wants one to call his own, one of the Wynn black DLC models, he's got more marbles than me.

That one shot catching the ignition in the ejection port
is way cool! Hey did you get dinged in the forehead with any brass?

I got a few of those when I "limped" it. Same thing happens on my G26
towards the end of the shooting session when I'm getting tired.

Michael-

[jfrey]

Good pistol and good shootin Bawanna. Now that we have the report, we can breathe again. Everything so far indicates it's gonna be a keeper.

Did you save any of that brass on the floor? We reloaders don't leave anything behind.

[snuffy]

Good shootin' Bawanna.
Welcome to "The Club".

[Bawanna]

I did catch a round or two in the face but not consistantly and not often. Perhaps limp wristing contributes, no biggie. I caught a bunch watching my kid shoot it. I also noticed that my stripper is not beveled but it gave no issues except the Gold Dot for some unexplained reason, then all I had to do was push the shell forward or pull the slide back, none of the others gave any issue at all. My Glock 21 incidently pummeled me in the face a bunch??? Jealousy perhaps but when cleaning it I noticed a radical bevel on it's stripper, take a peek at a glock and you'll see.
jfrey, I picked up every thing that resembled brass, my own and anyone elses I could get in my bag. No waste, no worries.
Next to the gun itself, the biggest victory of the day is those Wilson mags (my favorite) functioning and even locking open consistently. I was thrilled when I heard 1911 mags worked and really didn't care if it locked open or not. So Tiny can be the ultimate and perfect backup for my much loved and hopefully not too jealous Para. Or, my Cbob when/if that ever happens and frankly I'm so satisfied right now that the Dan Wesson is pretty far off on the radar screen.

[cgo99]

I did catch a round or two in the face but not consistantly and not often. Perhaps limp wristing contributes, no biggie. I caught a bunch watching my kid shoot it. I also noticed that my stripper is not beveled but it gave no issues except the Gold Dot for some unexplained reason, then all I had to do was push the shell forward or pull the slide back, none of the others gave any issue at all. My Glock 21 incidently pummeled me in the face a bunch??? Jealousy perhaps but when cleaning it I noticed a radical bevel on it's stripper, take a peek at a glock and you'll see.
jfrey, I picked up every thing that resembled brass, my own and anyone elses I could get in my bag. No waste, no worries.
Next to the gun itself, the biggest victory of the day is those Wilson mags (my favorite) functioning and even locking open consistently. I was thrilled when I heard 1911 mags worked and really didn't care if it locked open or not. So Tiny can be the ultimate and perfect backup for my much loved and hopefully not too jealous Para. Or, my Cbob when/if that ever happens and frankly I'm so satisfied right now that the Dan Wesson is pretty far off on the radar screen.

Awsome Bawanna I'm happy that you have a keeper.
Love the pics also, there could never be too many pictures.