Happy Happy joy joy!!!!!!

[No Quarter]

I posted a question about my MK9 model # 9093BX a day or two ago. It was strange because my slide is marked as "Stainless" under the black coating. I called Kahr this morning and they said that they did not know why the slide was marked stainless, but it was certainly a BOX model regardless.

Well, tonight, I get a reply from Dottie w/ Kahr stating:

"Normally the MK9BX has a 4140 carbon steel slide with a black oxide (gun blue) coating. We recently needed to fulfill an order for these guns and we did not have sufficient 4140 slides to do so. We used stainless steel slides and had them black passivated (gun blue does not adhere to stainless)"

She also stated that my gun was worth considerably more than an economy model since it is not one! So, for $380 plus tax - I got a unique gun! I have half a mind to go buy another one from the dealer that has them in stock!

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!!

[No Quarter]

pic 1 - you can see the stainless marking on the bottom right of the slide...

[No Quarter]

And pic #2

[G33]

Enjoy!;f

[Michigun]

Very cool all the way around! ^c

Kahr was really thinking ahead when they went out of their way to specially mark that slide "stainless" to show what it really was.

[No Quarter]

They sure were. I am going to drive out to Mesquite this weekend and check the dealer out to see if he has anymore marked that way. If he does, I think that I'll buy it just to keep one in reserve. To get a MK9 for less than $400 NIB is too good to pass up.

As an extra data point, it shows that the fired casing was collected in August of this year.

Regards,

NQ

[sx-al]

You lucked out! Nice gun.

Get me one while your there ;) . I cant even get close to that price in Miami.

[No Quarter]

I hear you. The regular price for an all stainless MK9 is well over $500 in the Dallas area. At least that is what I have seen at the shops that I go to.

I hope he has another one!

NQ

[Glock4Life]

Just thinking out loud but I wonder if a guy could remove the black finish leaving himself with an entirely stainless pistol in it's raw form? It's already way cool, especially for $380.

[No Quarter]

I am sure you could polish it all off. The finish on the stainless appears to be pretty smooth under the black. I know that as the finish wears off of it (if it does) I will have no qualms about just polishing the whole thing out anyway. I am not familiar with blackened stainless, so I really do not know what kind of durability it might have.

NQ

[ericboo]

It is not the $250 million lottery but a great price and a nice gun!

$500 in these parts of NY too.