We think much alike Mike. I'm known as a 45 guy myself. My first Kahr was a K40. I had it magna ported. I like it but it just has too much muzzle flip for me.
It isn't painful recoil just flip. I somehow got a box of 45 with a handful of 40 mixed in, I'm certain it was from the factory but no way of being certain. I loaded a mag and let a friend shot my brand new Magnum Research 1911. Put it out of commission with a 40 case and bullet stuck in the barrel. Had to send it back for a new barrel. Since then I'm very careful to keep what 40 I have far away from my 45 and what tiny bit of 9 I have. I'm also much more careful to check every round as I load so that doesn't happen again.
The 40 is a good round, I won't dispute that, a detuned 10mm that the FBI thought they needed which turned out to be too powerful for guns at the time.
I just don't see a need for it in my tool box. I'll probably keep my K40 just cause I rarely sell guns but I did get a K9 only to prepare for the day when my hands and wrist don't get along well with the 45. So far I'm happy to say they still get along just fine.
I am kind of looking for a 1911 in 9 for the same reason. I'll have to probably wear a sack over my head so people that see it don't know it's me, same as I did when I got a Ford van, got to be too tough to see through the eye slits in the paper sack and paper sacks are getting hard to come by too. Plastic is to risky, I'd probably tie off round the neck and take the easy way out ya know.
I don't think the 40 will go away and one additional reason to keep the K40 is when everything else suddenly dries up due to politics there's usually still 40 on the shelf. I try to keep ammo on hand that I don't need to worry but if things dry up, 40 is an option.
In Memory of Paul "Dietrich" Stines.
Dad: Say something nice to your cousin Shirley
Dietrich: For a fat girl you sure don't sweat much.
Cue sound of Head slap.
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