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I took my new Kahr PM9 out to the range and put her first 350 rounds down the pipe yesterday. Thing fired absolutely flawlessly without a single failure of any kind. No problems what so ever, just kept shooting all kinds of ammo and was accurate to boot. A good replacement for my current EDC, a Kimber Solo.
When I got home I did have a broken follower -- which did not affect the functioning of the firearm in any way shape or form -- but obviously I learned that I likely have too long of a feed ramp. Again, not something I'm concerned about if the firearm keeps functioning.
The weird thing that maybe you guys can shed some light on is the firearm is new, with a serial number over 5000, but the barrel did not come with a polished feed ramp and after the 350 rounds I fired it seems to have developed a "chip" in the bottom left side of the chamber (from brushing against the slide), and dings in the feed ramp itself from the nose of the bullets. Again, I saw absolutely no failures of any kind during my range trip so I'm not too concerned, but I am curious if you guys have seen this on a regular basis and had negative performance issues because of it, or if it's merely a cosmetic thing (which I don't care about).
I did e-mail Kahr to have them send me a new follower and I'll give that a shot, but in the meantime I'll continue shooting this thing with the broken follower -- so long as it keeps working.
Anyhow, here's the picture of the denting in the feed ramp and the little nick in the base of the chamber itself.
Weird right? Or normal? It obviously doesn't matter much as it's functioning perfect.
When I got home I did have a broken follower -- which did not affect the functioning of the firearm in any way shape or form -- but obviously I learned that I likely have too long of a feed ramp. Again, not something I'm concerned about if the firearm keeps functioning.
The weird thing that maybe you guys can shed some light on is the firearm is new, with a serial number over 5000, but the barrel did not come with a polished feed ramp and after the 350 rounds I fired it seems to have developed a "chip" in the bottom left side of the chamber (from brushing against the slide), and dings in the feed ramp itself from the nose of the bullets. Again, I saw absolutely no failures of any kind during my range trip so I'm not too concerned, but I am curious if you guys have seen this on a regular basis and had negative performance issues because of it, or if it's merely a cosmetic thing (which I don't care about).
I did e-mail Kahr to have them send me a new follower and I'll give that a shot, but in the meantime I'll continue shooting this thing with the broken follower -- so long as it keeps working.
Anyhow, here's the picture of the denting in the feed ramp and the little nick in the base of the chamber itself.
Weird right? Or normal? It obviously doesn't matter much as it's functioning perfect.
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