Dropped Kahr, broken recoil spring assembly

[Erik]

Posted elsewhere and now here for your benefit:

Not than any of you plan to, I'm sure, but avoid dropping your Kahrs (and other siilarly constructed makes) so that they land directly onto something hard causing the plastic end piece of the recoil spring assembly to break, rendering the pistol unsafe and inoperable.

As to how, the belly band velcro caught onto to my clothes causing it to dump off of the counter is was resting on onto the tile floor. It hit just right.

It ought to cost $19 and a few weeks wait time to get it up and running again.

Anyway, I'd thought I'd share my mishap for the benefit of others.

 

[horge]

Thanks for the heads-up.
I'd be interested in any photos of the damage.

 

[albanian]

None of my Kahrs have plastic recoil guide rods. I have the K-9s so I assume you are talking about the plastic Kahrs. You should put that in your title so people don't think that the K-9 has a plastic guide rod. From the way you wrote it, it sounds like all Kahrs are made with plastic internals.

This and other reasons are why I never bought a plastic Kahr even though I think the K-9 is the finest handgun I have ever seen. My one major complaint with the K-9 is that it is a little heavy. I wanted them to make one in aluminum or Titanium but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! They HAD to make one out of plastic. They just had to be like Glock. They just had to go cheap and charge a fortune. The plastic Kahrs cost more than the steel ones! Come on! They say it costs more to make a plastic frame than a steel one! I was bone in the day but it wasn't yesterday!

Wow. That struck a nerve with me.

 

[orangeninja]

um...ahem. Might I recommend a Sig 239? *Duck and run*

 

[charlesb_la]

I'm guessing it was for one of the MK series. I broke the recoil assembly on my MK40 during a detail strip and was stupid(wanted to see how tough the plastic was). Never would have thought it would break when dropped. I replaced it with a Kahr assembly but have been eying a replacement from Wolff, it looks to be metal and would allow different weight springs to experiment with.

http://www.gunsprings.com/SemiAuto/KahrNF.html

 

[JNewell]

Have been using the Wolff assembly with excellent results (no failures of any kind with anything from range ammo to +P SD ammo).

 

[albanian]

So are the MK models made of plastic? I thought the steel guns had all steel parts. I have only had an E-9 and two K-9s so I don't know much about the MK series. I have shot them but never taken them apart.

 

[dmallind]

Can't speak for other variants but my PM9 guide rod is not plastic - new this month.

 

[Erik]

It wasn't the rod, metal by the way, which broke but the end cap, what ever it is called. (The black piece beneath an assembled pistol.)

 

[Calhoun]

My P9 has a metal guide rod. Are you talking about the dust cover? Any chance of posting a photo?

Cal