Hello All! I am new to Kahr after many years with Beretta and S&W. Bought a new "old stock" PM9 (on the shelf for 2 years) three months ago and did all the 200 round break in...actually did 400...with lots of feed problems, field stripping issues, as I have read here are common. I bought the PM9 for daily carry, now that my state IL permits it, and thought all was well until last week. Trying to use some 10 year old Golden Sabre 124 gr. JHP+P brought many FTF with the nose of the rounds caught under the leading edge of the feed ramp..which I have now polished but not yet tested. Of all places, I found a well done post on a Glock forum from another PM9 owner who convincingly explained that this is issue is a design defect in which the next round to be chambered moves forward in the magazine as the round above is stripped. That does happen..try it. Then the tilting barrel does not tilt high enough to permit the feed ramp to drop low enough to smoothly engage the forward positioned round. The poster attributed the failure of the ramp to fully drop to excess material on the polymer frame which will eventually wear down with use and may solve the problem. He sanded his frame down a bit and also suggested using a shorter length round so my Kahr is currently carrying Hornady FTX which are somewhat shorter than a Golden Sabre. However, I am back to carrying a really too big Storm PX4 Subcompact as I do not trust the Kahr until I can get to the range for a test.
Your thoughts and experience please.
Tartansailor