You didn't indicate if you were shooting two handed or one handed. If you were shooting two handed, try shooting with only one hand and see if the problem goes away. If so, the issue is probably caused by part of your support hand (most likely the thumb) putting just enough upward pressure on the slide release to cause it to lock back the slide as it cycles. This is easy to do with the small Kahr guns, and happened with my PM40. I had expected this might be an issue due to my big mitts on a small gun, and made a few subtle adjustments to my grip technique that fixed the problem easily.diastiss wrote:Hey guys,
Anyone else having a problem with thier Kahr CW40 where the slide lock will stay open after just about every shot? I shot @90 rounds today (fired for the first time after 11/23/09 purchase new) I have the reciept from gun show purchase through a retailer at a gun show. I just registered the gun at khar.com, and will call tommorrow to see if I can send the gun in.
Brand new gun purchased for self defense and can only shoot one shot then have to press the release to get it to chamber the next round. I did have about 3 shots that chambered themselves but for the most part had to press the release. I had to pull the slide back a few times too. Pretty darn aggrivating at the range today
Any suggestions?
After several hundred rounds, I also experienced the same broken magazine follower issue TheBrit described. It didn't cause the slide to lock back, but rounds would not feed reliably from the magazine. In my case also, the magazine had to be disassembled before the break could be seen and the two broken pieces removed. The break was on one of the follower legs that then allowed it to tilt and change the feed angle to one that wouldn[t work.
You disassemble the magazine by pushing and holding in the round pin on the magazine floorplate and pushing the floorplate forward off the magazine tube. This will allow the spring and follower to be removed. Reassembly is accomplished by the same steps in reverse order.
If that turns out to be the problem, just call Kahr - they'll send out a new follower without the need to send back the gun or magazine.