K9 Erratic Ejection

[IrvJr]

Hi All,

I took my little K9 to the range today and shot about 150 rounds of Remington UMC and Winchester 115gr FMJ rounds.

I had a malfunction today. I fired a round and the gun did not go into battery for the next round. When I looked at the gun, there was a fired casing lying across the ejection port. The spent casing fell away as soon as I touched it (it wasn't really stuck in the port it was lying sideways across the port). the next round immediately fed into the chamber.

I can't be positive, but I think the malfunction was caused when the spent round bounced off of the very low ceiling off of the firing range. The ceiling at the range is very low (for safety and noise control reasons) and I'm kinda tall. I was aiming at a target that I had placed high on the target holder and my gun was fairly close to the ceiling. I suspect that the casing richoceted off of the ceiling and landed in the ejection port.

I've noticed that my K9 often vigorously ejects empty casings almost straight up instead of to my rightt. This doesn't happen always, but fairly regularly. It seems like it happens more with the Remington UMC ammo.

Has anyone else experienced this type of ejection with their K9? Can the extractor of a K9 be tuned like a 1911 (i.e., can the extractor tension be increased or decreased as needed)?

Thanks in advance!

[A.Fischer]

Wow, that's got to be a 1 in a million chance. Seems like the slide would have closed long before a spent casing had time to deflect off of another object. I do notice somewhat erratic ejection on my K9 as well. On a side note, the last two failures in about 500 rounds on my gun were with UMC FMJ.

[ajkahr]

Mag release.

Call Kahr support line and ask for a new mag release. I had a very similar experience with my Elite 98 K9.

The problem was that the mag would drop down a slight bit and sometimes drop out completely. The lack of alignment and spring pressure from the mag will cause the ejection function not complete correctly.

Dottie will send you the replacement for free. It's a simple swap out when you get the new one.

-AJ

[IrvJr]

Thanks fellas for the posts.

I'll e-mail Dottie and see what she thinks. The mags seem to be seated tightly in my gun. I'll also test the gun a lot more to see how the ejection behaves using other brands of ammo.

I've started using more Winchester 115gr FMJ ammo instead of the Remington UMC. The gun seems to shoot more accurately for me with the Winchester brand and the ejection is more predictable with the Winchester brand ammo. the gun also seems to like the hotter personal defense ammo too. I wonder if the UMC rounds are loaded at a slightly lower pressure than the other brands that I've tried.