Funny, or maybe not so funny, is that Kahrs have been my most problematic pistols, Yet I keep buying them, because most of the time once they get sorted out, or returned to the mothership, they function very reliably. I've been tempted by others, but nothing else in the CW/CM price range come close to my needs and wants as a well functioning Kahr. An S&W Shield might work out ok. I sure like it's big brother, the M&P Pro.
I kind of wondered what the hell I got myself into when I got my CM45, and had a helluva time just trying to lock the slide back. Thankfully it loosened up quite a bit during the break in.
That was one gun I wished had a way to grip the slide better, where you could really put some muscle into it.
One range officer saw me putting a lot of effort into locking the slide back and strolls over and is like here (I could hear him thinking "you old wimp-fart") let me get that for you, so I handed him the pistol, and was very amused as he went from thinking it was going to be a piece of cake, to putting quite a bit of effort into it himself. He finally got the slide locked back, and told me he'd put 500 rounds through it before he would carry it and walked off with a lot less bounce in his step. Probably went back and racked his Glock a few times to make himself feel better. LOL. That place is full of Glock fan boys. Up front in the store, I overheard a conversation once and from the looks on their faces and the tone of what I overheard, I thought they were talking about women, then I heard "Glock". I heard some sentences like "I picked her up the other night, and she was everything I dreamed of", and crap like that. And the dreamy look on their faces just capped it all off. I headed back to the range before I was tempted to look and to see if they were popping tents in their pants.
Tom
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