Kahr Sights

[howitzer11]

Has anyone swaped the sights on a Kahr PM? Any local shops that have the tool or what tool would you suggest?

 

[Atlas]

Dave Santurri swapped my front sight for me while I waited for 10 bucks.

 

[RB101]

Dave Santurri swapped my front sight for me while I waited for 10 bucks.

Same, Dave has done 2 of my Kahr's. Night sites on one, fiber optics on another.

 

[semma]

I did my own on a PM9... I swapped in some Tru-glows using a plastic dowel and peening hammer. Lot's of filing. They are mint... love the way the pistol shoots. BTW.. had to send it back to Kahr twice for what I thought was a FTF - a common problem on the PM9s. In fact, after they returned it for the me for the second time without correcting it. I finally figured out what the problem was. It was not a FTF, but a premature slide lock-back. If the ogive of the feeding cartridge hits the slide lock on the way up, it will lock the slide open and leave the ogive in a nose-dive into the feedramp!!!! A little dowel work on the slide lock with some of the fattest ogives for a guide fixed the problem. Now, it eats everything!!! There's plenty of stock left on the slide lock for the magazine follower to click it up and lock the slide. I might order another slide lock to see if they've incorporated a new revision.

 

[joshh]

wtf is an "ogive"?

 

[ChargingCharlie]

wtf is an "ogive"?

Click here -->Ogive

 

[45collector]

I have a K40 that I haven't done anything with the stock sights as of yet, but I hear those suckers are really tight in the slide. Apparently not something that comes out easy with your average drift punch and hammer. semma if you read this can you give an idea of how easily they came out using your method?

 

[M1911]

Just take it to a gunsmith and have him do it if you don't have a sight pusher. It's cheap money and he won't wreck the sights or slide in the process.

 

[Airwolfe1]

Providing, of course, the Gunsmith actually has a sight pusher. Some will just beat on it till it comes out and beat on it to put it in. It was a shame getting my new PM45 back with a new front night sight and the edge of it was all knurled where it was beaten into submission. Make sure before they do the work, that the gunsmith will be using a sight pusher.

 

[M1911]

Providing, of course, the Gunsmith actually has a sight pusher. Some will just beat on it till it comes out and beat on it to put it in. It was a shame getting my new PM45 back with a new front night sight and the edge of it was all knurled where it was beaten into submission. Make sure before they do the work, that the gunsmith will be using a sight pusher.

Oy vey. That wasn't a gunsmith, that was a goonsmith. But don't worry, the scratches he added were free