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Yeppers, she's lookin' like a keeper!

I hear ya. "Selection" brings a lot of factors, reliability being the foundation.

One of my carry criteria is 25 yard accuracy, and this PM9 meets it. I'll putz
around with carry ammo and see...

Not seeing anything on Kahr's site, regarding replacement interval.

In general, the smaller the pistol, the harder the job of the recoil spring(s), and the shorter the service life.
I'm just...

1. With the spacer disk, the misfire rate improved (less misfires), and the misfires became isolated to one brand of ammo--the Barnaul white box "milspec" ammunition.

2. Since that range...

Using a long machine screw, nut and couple of washers, works great for giving an initial "set", and easing new spring installations.

I just put new Wolff springs ("20.5 #, Xtra Power") on my...

Tula and Barnaul are both Russian, different factories. Barnaul seems to load a bit stouter than Tula, in a few calibers I've used--tho Tula has a 150-ish FMJ flat point in .38 Special, that is...

Took her out for another session today. Misfires are most prevalent on the Barnaul, followed by Tula,
and one Freedom Munition reman.

Got a couple of recoil spring & striker spring sets inbound,...

Ok, I'll fire off an order to Wolff.

Lyman digital gauge is giving 5# and about an ounce, for pull.

My old Kastar round wire spark plug gauge shows 0.86mm / 0.033"
for striker breech face max...

Thanks guys!

Yeah, done all the usual stuff. Striker bore and safety plunger bore were good-to-go, no
schmoo. Got about 15% non-fire/light primer indents on last range session, with the Tula...

Howdy from Georgia,

Picked up a VC72XX PM9 recently. Neat little pistol, quite accurate!

Have experienced some light strike misfires on Tula 115, and Federal 9BP, 9MS, and XM9001. Trigger...