Disgusted with new CW45
I have never been so disappointed in a gun in all my life as I am with this CW45, :32: I finally got around to getting the first 200 or so shots thru it.
The good news: It shoots straight. That's all the good I can say about it. The bad news is that it is one horribly unreliable piece of crap.
I did not get through ONE freakin magazine without a failure of some sort. I finally gave up on the 7 round mag for now and used my two 6 round mags.
I used WWB round nose FMJ for break in. I encountered one thing I haven't read about before, the slide would go back into battery ready to fire, (or so I thought, I did try and push the slide in a few times and it was in as far as it would go), and I'd pull the trigger and nothing. No click, no noise of any type. So I would do a press check far enough to reset the trigger, and it would go bang. After doing this repeatedly, I decided to see what would happen if I just kept pulling the trigger, and sometimes after the 3rd or 4th trigger pull it would go bang. I've not heard of this before. This happened at least once every mag, and often a couple times on one mag. It had repeated failures to feed, maybe that is my fault, I didn't polish the feed ramp. Also the slide often would not lock back on the last round, the take down lever worked it's way out to maybe 1/8th of an inch or so sometimes, and other times it just didn't lock back. That happened repeatedly also. I have seen a thread on the take down lever working it's way loose am going to look it up after I beetch a little more. I was so disgusted with the gun after 200 rounds, well more like 194 after I threw away some mangled cartridges, that I didn't even try any SD ammo.
Right now I'm ready to take this gun and shove it up a certain gun makers ass as far as I can shove it. What really pisses me off, is I took the time to do Jocko's prep, lube it up well, and rack the slide hundreds of times. And it performed worse than my CW40 did without any prep at all. I guess no good deed goes unpunished.
I have to tell you though, If this had been my first experience with a Kahr, I'd sell it in a hurry and hope to never hear about Kahr again. As it is, I'll have to think a long time before I buy another one. Things never got any better as I came closer to the 200 round mark, same things kept happening over and over and over and over.
I made real damn sure I wasn't limp wristing it, or anything else that would make it not function. The CW40 ran perfectly after I put the .45 away, even with my arms getting tired. Now I have a country music song running thru my head, "Take this gun and shove it..... I ain't shooting it no more". Bear with me please, trying to maintain some of my sense of humour thru all this mess. I'm not sure what to do with the damn thing now. Is there anything I can do? Does it need to go straight back to the mothership before I go fooling with things? Any ideas?
Well, at least the CT laser was fun. It got kind of embarrasing though the madder I got the more the little red dot bounced around the target. Should have covered up the lens I guess.
It's making me wonder if Jet Guns didn't clean up someone else's problem child and sell it as new. I guess Kahr would now if it'd been registered for warranty before. Maybe that's why I got it so cheap. Crap, I shouldn't go dragging a gun dealers name thru the mud unless I have proof they did something wrong. I'm just way pissed off.
WHEN it DID shoot, it shot pretty well.
These targets are from the 7 yard mark, in the order I shot them. I was getting pretty agitated by the 2nd and 3rd targets. The targets are 12" wide and 18" tall.
Tom
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