Hi, I’m a new cw9 owner and new to the forum. I knew about the 200 round break in period before the gun is to be considered fully reliable. Seems a little excessive, but okay, fine. Before firing it I disassembled it and it looked clean except for some excess oil in the slide. No shavings or burrs were noticeable, so I wiped off the excess oil and went to the range and fired about 80 rounds through it and the great majority of them had failure to fully feed. The slide would stop about an inch short of its intended travel and I would have to slap the slide home before I could fire. 50 of the rounds were Perfeca so that could have contributed to the problem. I had never used those before. Can’t recall what the other 30 rounds were.
I disassembled the gun at home and gave it a normal cleaning. The second time at the range I shot 50 rounds of American Eagle and this time about 40-50% of the rounds fed normally - the others required the hand slap to further feed the round. So there was slight improvement. My concern is that I’m over halfway through the break in period and FTFs are way too frequent for a gun I bought for concealed carry. I’ve got a Hi Point C9 and a Phoenix Arms hp22a that combined cost less than my cw9 and those both worked fine with no FTFs right out of the box. I hate to think I’m going to have to return this gun to Kahr for repair but if it doesn’t straighten out soon I’ll have to send it back which is ironic given my experience of my other guns which are considered “cheapo” guns.
Is this a common experience? Do I have a lemon, or am I missing something? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.