Kahr CM40 breaking followers.

[maroonandwhite]

Have any of you guys had this problem with the CM/CW/PM model Kahr's? I just traded my CW9 for a CM40. The giy told me up front that one of the mags has a broken follower. It seems to be a known but not widespread problem with them. When we made the trade I actually found out that one of the followers in one of my CW9 mags was broken the same way.

 

It seems that the feed ramp sticks a little too far back and hits the follower upon recoil of the last shot in the mag. It seems to be more prevalent in the .40 due to more recoil.

 

The fix everyone recommended online was to grind some of the feed ramp off with the ol' dremel and polish it up......which I did. I basically used some paste to mark the barrel and inserted the mag to see if they were making contact. The weird thing is even with a little taken off of it there is still plenty of "extra" feed ramp well below where the bullet actually touches the ramp. I'm gonna try it out for 100 rounds and see what happens before taking any more off.

 

Just curious if anyone else has had this problem and tried this fix. From what I've read Kahr will just do the same thing if I send it in.

[KahrMan]

I mainly stick with the p/pm series and have not had this issue.  I have only had 9's and 45's though.  Let us know how it runs the next time you take it out.

[maroonandwhite]

Seems to have worked! I shot about 15 mags with one round in them with no broken followers. For what it's worth I did notice that the mag with the broken follower had the mag spring installed backwards. Could be something to that. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk