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I have question about your Kahr handguns. Please send me an email at: rggates at yahoo dot com. Thanks!

suggest them for your average women or anyone who might have a limp wristing shooting technique. They are so small and light that they need a firm grip to kick against. Actually all small semi-autos are that way but the lighter and smaller they are the more sensitive. I know it makes gun dealers bonkers when a lady buys a $800 SIG and brings it back as unreliable for them.

Kahr says in the manual to shoot at LEAST 200 rounds before you start bitching! LOL This is to allow some break in and seating of springs. Plus I know it allows the customer to get accustomed to the gun too, but they don't list that.

Kahr's claim to fame is the heavy round with the lightest reasonable platform, and great sights. Sort of like a VW Bug with a Hemi in it! It requires a little extra consideration. The .40 Cal versions are simply rude to shoot. The .45 with 230 gr. ball is fine. Even the 9mm and .380 sting a bit as they are even smaller for the calibers they shoot. Have you ever shot a baby Browning .25 ACP? OUCH!

Jeff Quinn's excellent write up is still online. He kind of favored them, that's saying a lot. The .45 Compared to a snubby J-frame (like Jim's). My GI 1911 Mags work fine.
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I'm not fond of that hair pin holding the slide release tension. But I've never had any issues with it, mostly because I'm smart enough to not screw with it! If it's not broke don't mess with it. Plus I am very critical examining the designs of guns, I enjoy really looking things over.

The trigger/striker bar (the pulling of the trigger draws back the striker), one finger goes only so far then the other picks up about the time the first one runs out of mechanical use. It makes the trigger pull long (safe) and consistent from beginning to end. I do not pull to the left like on a Glock the moment of trigger break. You are less likely to shoot yourself with a trigger system of this type. It's literally a flat DA revolver with a heavenly trigger pull.

Lots of goobers shoot themselves and TV's etc. with Glocks but you can't fool proof a fool anyway. An Arkansas Game Warden killed himself by shooting himself in the leg with his Glock 22 sitting in his truck. BANG right through the main artery. Not a thing anyone could have done without the right equipment and been very fast!

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1: They are excellent guns
2: I am a nervous old grandpa
3: which is why I still feel slightly uncomfortable carrying one with a round chambered.

I stayed away from Glocks for decades out of snobbery (PLASTIC???) but then picked up a Model 31 in .357 SIG for a price I couldn't refuse. Took it to the range and was like, "Well, damn, she sure shoots nice." I still like a positive safety. As you said, it's the operator, not the tool, but the operator needs to know his limitations.

Showing my age, but I actually like the DA/SA semiauto pistol. Jeff Cooper famously called it "a solution to a nonexistent problem," but Cooper had this Yukio Mishima thing going on where he thought you should be able to train 10 hrs a day, which most of us are not able to do. The military and police departments have to find other solutions, which is how we got the Beretta 92 and the SIG P320.

With you on the Kahrs. I'm on a self-imposed ban from GB right now but as recently as a year ago you could pick one up for little over pocket change. I have a PM40 and it's basically a flat DA revolver.

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Sure. They are not for everyone. I'd certainly not

They sure are simple.

That two finger striker bar is interesting engineerng but

Still uneasy with Glocks