ElyasWolff
05-18-2008, 18:46
A few months ago I sent my 6 month old K9 into Kahr, the frame had cracked. Kahr sent me a supposedly new gun (it looked like they reused my old sights.) When I took delivery of the new gun I thought it odd that the striker had yellow paint on it. I did not think much of it, and put the gun in my safe.
Today I decided to take out my new Kahr and brake it in. I put in a magazine, pulled the trigger, no bang.... ok... So I taped the magazine, and racked the slide... no bang. I went though the whole mag this way.
I examined the rounds and they did not even have a scratch on the primers!
After stripping off the slide I found that the striker would not protrude past the "firing pin hole" (I of course pushed down the striker safety)
It pretty much ruined my shooting day, I rattled my teeth with some 45-70 and went home.
When I got home, I stripped the slide down and removed the striker. It was pretty obvious why the gun would not fire. The striker that came with the gun (yellow paint) is on the left. A new factory striker is on the right (I bought a spare just in case) The defective striker is about ¼ inch longer, and in no way could reach the primer to set off a round of ammunition. I installed my spare striker and the gun appears to work normally. It will even launch a Bic pen across the room (Clear you gun first before you put the pen down your barrel bla bla bla)
The really screwed up thing is the gun was test fired! there is powder residue in the barrel and in the slide.
I am not going to theorize what happened at the Kahr plant, but Monday morning they have some serious explaining to do.
http://blufiles.storage.live.com/y1pia_9SJsE8c9e7SFlGhaqdtlANOrn5vxpviNYV9lsmhScXj-9zHbQzL6p-cuvPQOrm6wDYZWR1GM
http://blufiles.storage.live.com/y1pia_9SJsE8c_x9dJ0Gv9x51ky5GM-0D_2U2euZtQj1hP8xiF5ew47vy5kvOtUuMewSVJOWFFnkjs
http://blufiles.storage.live.com/y1pia_9SJsE8c-Iaf6uiRCiAGx9WLqWtwJtop-B6PWjoErCEBHPmJ-8d7R-FtFpA8jMt5lEpwDRQ5c
Sorry for the bad pix, I posted this on ARFcom too.
Today I decided to take out my new Kahr and brake it in. I put in a magazine, pulled the trigger, no bang.... ok... So I taped the magazine, and racked the slide... no bang. I went though the whole mag this way.
I examined the rounds and they did not even have a scratch on the primers!
After stripping off the slide I found that the striker would not protrude past the "firing pin hole" (I of course pushed down the striker safety)
It pretty much ruined my shooting day, I rattled my teeth with some 45-70 and went home.
When I got home, I stripped the slide down and removed the striker. It was pretty obvious why the gun would not fire. The striker that came with the gun (yellow paint) is on the left. A new factory striker is on the right (I bought a spare just in case) The defective striker is about ¼ inch longer, and in no way could reach the primer to set off a round of ammunition. I installed my spare striker and the gun appears to work normally. It will even launch a Bic pen across the room (Clear you gun first before you put the pen down your barrel bla bla bla)
The really screwed up thing is the gun was test fired! there is powder residue in the barrel and in the slide.
I am not going to theorize what happened at the Kahr plant, but Monday morning they have some serious explaining to do.
http://blufiles.storage.live.com/y1pia_9SJsE8c9e7SFlGhaqdtlANOrn5vxpviNYV9lsmhScXj-9zHbQzL6p-cuvPQOrm6wDYZWR1GM
http://blufiles.storage.live.com/y1pia_9SJsE8c_x9dJ0Gv9x51ky5GM-0D_2U2euZtQj1hP8xiF5ew47vy5kvOtUuMewSVJOWFFnkjs
http://blufiles.storage.live.com/y1pia_9SJsE8c-Iaf6uiRCiAGx9WLqWtwJtop-B6PWjoErCEBHPmJ-8d7R-FtFpA8jMt5lEpwDRQ5c
Sorry for the bad pix, I posted this on ARFcom too.