Kahr is discontinuing the ported barrel for the K9. Always wanted to try a ported barrel but felt like the price was a little high. Well, Kahr had their ported barrel on sale, so I bought one for my E9 (E9 is an old, long discontinued poor boy's K9). The new barrel fit perfectly and is certainly accurate.

I shoot a pretty mild load for IDPA and USPSA competition but that's the only load I had on hand, so that's what I took to the range. I always kind of suspected that a single port wasn't going to do too much to mitigate recoil at best, let alone with a lighter load. That turned out to be true, at least for my mild load. Frankly, I couldn't tell the ported barrel from the non-ported.

Maybe using a hard, full throttle load the port would make a difference. If anyone has tried the ported barrel. please share the experience. Thanks