Quote Originally Posted by Sgt 127 View Post
This is a T9. Bought it a couple years ago, slightly used. I put a few hundred rounds through it, the slide wouldn’t lock back while firing. Back to Kahr. Replaced slide stop. Fixed. Shot maybe another 500 rounds through it.

Today, I took the slide apart. 2 things. A: it was swimming in oil. Exactly as returned from Kahr.
B: I’m surprised it still worked. The firing pin channel was absolutely filled with brass shavings. It looked like a miners slosh pan at the height of the California gold rush.

Ive never seen that much brass. I cleaned it and left it dry. But, seriously. That was unreal. Has anyone else seen this?

A buddy of mine just took his apart, it’s a new K9. Same thing.

Ive owned a lot of Kahrs. I don’t recall ever seeing this before. The pictures show about half the flakes I removed.

As a department armorer, I’ve seen sloppy wet Glocks that had some residue and brass in the channel. But, nothing like this.

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Did a a little google searching. Apparently it’s not that uncommon. I just guess the volume of brass I found in there amazed me. And, my instinct to keep it dry is correct.
Am I reading this right?

It went 500 rounds between cleanings and the firing pin channel was slathered in oil?

While many brag about abusing guns with thousands of rounds between cleaning, it’s silly, pointless, and lazy. If you’re getting lots of debris in places where there shouldn’t be lots of debris, there’s proof that regular cleaning is important.

Clean that son of a gun after you shoot it.

Secondly, keep oil away from the firing pin channel, period.