Been carrying my little .380 some, convienience.

I have the Kahr P380. The size and smooth trigger is what I like along with REAL steel handgun sights dovetailed to the stainless slide. The smaller the gun the more difficult to obtain total reliability. I have had good luck with mine, so far. It did not like the SIG 100 gr. FMJ with a flat tip. They lacked slide kicking inertia, while cheaper Federal 95 gr. JRN, ran fine. I bought some Hornady Critical Defense XTP's and have yet to test them. It's time to replace the springs in my gun too, maintenance. The recoil spring is three springs inside of each other, weird but it works, and the striker (firing pin) single spring.

I worry about inserting a mag and racking the tiny slide. I've had a manual function failure to feed once or twice pushing the JHP back into the case a few thousandths. At $1 a shot I don't want to mess up performance or the cartridge. I'm sure it was my technique, maybe not racking it fully.

Would it be better to insert a round in the chamber and allowing the slide to snap shut off the stop? I want to ensure the extractor is fully engaged, round fully chambered. Then I insert a mag with (5) rounds more. Again I've heard that a full tilt mag can rub the underside of the slide with more pressure than designed on some guns (the HP being one, better with 12+1, not 13+1). On such a small gun with limited inertia it sounded good to me.

I prefer my .38 actually but sometimes it sure is nice to slip that little flat rig into my pocket. It even has three dot night sights!