The Kahr barrel is CNC machined from a solid billet of high tensile strength steel. Breaking the barrel link is an indicator that something is seriously wrong, I would expect any number of failures before the barrel link separated from the barrel. It that is the beefiest part of the barrel assembly, which makes it the strongest part of the barrel, crazy it would break there.jbmac wrote:At a recent shoot a shooter on my squad experienced a major malfunction.
The barrel link in his Kahr separated from the barrel. Another shooter offered to loan this individual a gun. On the next stage the borrowed gun blew up. The shooter suffered minor but bloody injuries to his weak hand. Fortunately all the shooters were well back and the SO was safely situated behind the shooter. I heard the shooter tell his friend that he was shooting "extra hot" handloads. As a reloader it is a good reminder stay well within maximums and work all new loads up starting with minimum charges.
I had a barrel lug separate from the barrel on a Mossberg shotgun, but that isn't machined from the same hunk of steel the barrel is, it is brazed on during manufacturing. Mossberg sent me a new barrel free of charge for an older, second hand shotgun.
