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CT380 repeated malfunctions solved.
Tobinator,
I have three of CT380s. The last two were the TU package versions. One of them had exactly the same type of malfunctions as you described. After giving up with all the failures to feed after about a 100 rounds and a field disassembly then generous lube with no improvement I turned on my flashlight and gave it a close look as it was repeatedly 2 or 3 times per magazine failing to fully load a round while firing (see pictures). The striker (firing pin) would stay out protruding out of the breachface and block the following round from fully loading.
The reason was NOT the ammo. I used the same ammo during the same range session in a second identical model CT380 (one was for my son and the other my daughter's). My son's CT380TU went through 200 rounds with only two malfunctions, failure to go completely into battery (didn't quite close on chambering). That occurred during the last 50 rounds of a 200 round break-in session. The gun was brand new and got hot and dirty which explains such a malfunction. I have a 3rd standard model CT380 which I have used when training my clients for their CCWs. It has well over 2000 rounds through it and although it had a few hick-ups during the first 200 rounds it fires everything BUT PERFECTA ammo. There is only one .380 I've tried that will shoot that stuff without malfunctioning several times every magazine and that was my fathers very old LLAMA .380.
So check to see if the striker is forward and hangs up on the rim of the cartridge being loaded as seen in the attached pictures. If it is and you were not using PERFECTA ammo, it needs to go back to Kahr. One of mine is there now for the reason discussed above and I just got off the phone with them to go over the issue.
v/r
Danny
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Note that the following photo is from an identical CT380TU that fired over 200 rounds with on two failures to go into battery. The ammo used was the same as that used for the previous CT380TU with ammo even coming out of the same boxes. Yet after being fully racked and the striker reset the striker is still forward when almost fully back into battery. This seems to be a design flaw. The cocking cam needs to engage the striker much earlier which would pull the striker back well before the round being loaded will be sliding up the breach-face. I have no idea why this CT380 fired so well when the other CT380TU the rim of the round would hang up on the protruding striker several times with each magazine of ammo fired.
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