I wasn't gonna do this but since you asked, get ready for a rant.
Bought on Monday, shot it on Thursday, got authorization number from Kahr to send it back to them on Friday, will be shipping it Fedex on Saturday.
First off, on size it's a little shorter in length, but a little taller, you can get 2 fingers under the trig guard, which makes it feel nice. Kahr fools around with the width, measuring just the slide, but that's not the thinnest part of the gun plus it has a slide stop, so not sure there. I think it's an ounce or so heavier.
The gun looks/feels great, I like Glock and it kinda looks like a glock. But I think they just tried to squeeze to much out of to little, of course due to consumer demand. I heard of some problems with Kel-tec and Ruger but all the reviews I found on Kahr were glowing almost flawless "you get what you pay for" was the theme. Well I said I didn't care about the price cause I thought I was getting something superior to the others but now feel pretty stupid for spending $565. for something maybe not equal to the others.
My review: Shot 225 rounds, the first 2 mags no problem, I thought wow that's good they say if your gonna have trouble it will show up right away. Well it was all down hill after that, shooting Fed and Rem ball ammo, 2 out of every three mags would have at least 1 failure some had 2-3 fails. The problems were both failure to feed and failure to fire, just 1 fail to eject, no stove pipe just didn't eject.
The f to fire was due to a very light primer strike, at first I thought it was the ammo but almost all the those rounds were put back thru and fired.
The feed problem was weird, looking at it you couldn't see what was up, it wasn't the ramp cause the round never got that far. You could clear it with a hard tap on the mag or a re-rack of the slide, no jams. on at least a couple of the feed problems the slide stop was engaged, I read reviews were the shooters said they had inadvertently engaged the stop but I know with my grip that's not the case. near the end I noticed the slide stop was just catching the slide, you couldn't see it moved but it was just enough, so that may of been alot of the feed problem I'm not sure. I tried 2 mags of Gold dot just to see if it liked the hotter ammo better but it still hung up.
Took it apart when I got home and didn't like what I saw the poly frame rail on the right side looked chewed up in a couple of spots, there is metal molded in at the front and rear but I didn't like the look of the plastic rail, also on the same side looks like a manufacturer defect, like a fissure right under the shoulder of the slide.
I already told them I don't want this frame back, which is alot of trouble for them since they don't reissue SN's like some companies do, would have to be a whole new transfer.
As of now I have no confidence in this gun, I find it hard to believe that the problems I experienced are unique to this one unit. so I'm not sure what to do now, If I could I'd just get my money back and start my search over. but I guess I'm gonna have to give them a chance as I don't have much other choice.
Worst thing is I traded in my PPK that I said I didn't like, starting to miss that especially now that I wont have any small pistol (except for a .25 mouse gun) for who knows how long
Sorry for the long Rant, but you did ask.
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