Is the K9 one of the best?

[travinh]

I am going to pickup my K9 Elite tomorrow. I paid $700 for it. I hope it will shoot as good as it looks.

[MMyers1970]

I am going to pickup my K9 Elite tomorrow. I paid $700 for it. I hope it will shoot as good as it looks.

The K9 is a good shooter, and the build quality on stainless Kahrs is as good as anything on the market. I like mine quite a bit. Congratulations!

[ripley16]

Being the one negative poster on the thread, I guess I should report in too with my own update. I'm glad to see Kahr changed it's follower design. A needed quality improvement made to fix a long time complaint. Kudos.

My only two remaining models, out of eight total, a K9 and TP9, are two of my favorites in my collection. However... in the time since this thread last ran my K9 broke. It broke in a manner that rendered the gun useless. Perhaps it was a fluke. The trigger bar rear end sheared off. But my already weak faith in the Kahr brand reliability is forever shattered. They are nice guns that I enjoy shooting but never will a Kahr be a carry gun for me.

I'm picky about reliability. I have to face facts. I own many brands of firearms but no other brand has given me the problems that my eight Kahrs have and now the one supposedly "rock solid" model has failed on me. There are too many good guns to choose from without having to hope one will work when I really need it based on it's other admittedly good qualities. My fault experiences with the Kahrs I've owned include; lightstrikes, both feed and ejection problems, broken followers, and then the broken trigger bar. I wish my experience was different but it is what it is.

I'm glad most of you have better Kahr experiences. A good, trusted gun is a comfort. I probably shoot more than most people and have been doing it for a long time. Maybe I put my guns through more... I don't know. What I do know is that I trust some other brands more. Not based on internet chatter but my own hands on experience.

[berettabone]

If I would have said this, I would have been called uncivil. Or of course, the "violet" reaction of stopping the posting. Great minds think alike

[Bawanna]

One thing that makes me proud of Kahrtalk is we don't pull the plug for speaking opinions right or wrong as they may be.

I guess there have been a few genuine brand bashers who were pretty much burrs under the saddle in all respects that got travel acommodations but for the most part it's still a free forum.

Even for folks with 380's. I hate myself for typing that, truly I do.

[187911]

Like my Kahrs. Never had an issue with them. I currently own five. Only one of them are new, and the other 4 were purchased used and have years on them. None had issues. Don't hear to many others complaining about them. Even members on the Glock for of all places seems to think highly of them, and they're usually the most critical bunch of them all. You got to have the worse luck ever to have gotten several that haven't been reliable.

Another thing I like about Kahr pistols is how inexpensive and readily available replacement components are compared to other companies. Most internal parts and springs are categorized and easily found on their website.

[187911]

OlympicFox I have toyed with the idea of a 1911 such as a Colt defender but I'm the type of person who will research something to death before I make a purchase. During my research on the 1911 (as with most guns) I read as many articles of how the 1911 is unreliable as I do articles of praise for the old slabside. I don't have enough experience with a 1911 to speak intelligently one way or the other and I have not made up my mind if I want to venture down that rabbit trail. I do like DA/SA as I have my CZP01 and a CZP07. I almost wish I could get a 1911 design that was DA/SA but with the trigger of a 1911 that pushes straight back!

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We're in the same boat...

I thought about carrying a 1911 too, but they're usually expensive, heavier, harder to break down, and have a safety on it to make up for the usually short/light trigger pull. I know they make some light weight aluminum frame 1911, but I prefer stainless.

Like you, I also have a CZ P01 and P07 compact. I Don't carry them over my K40 because they weigh unloaded about what my K40 weighs loaded, and they're bulkier thus harder to conceal.

[downtownv]

I was wondering how a post from 10/29/2012, rose from the crypt?

[JackRyan]

I totally agree. Bigger guns like HK, and Sig cost more for a reason. Good always cost more. BUT the K9 and the K40 are the best of the smaller guns made

[harrydog]

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HK P2000 is not really that much bigger than the K9 but it holds almost twice as many rounds. Not difficult to conceal at all. I will concede that the K9, being a little thinner, is a bit easier to conceal. Everything is a compromise and you just have to find what you're comfortable with.