It's a Kahr CW40. It's a mix between a 1911, a slicked-up S&W revolver, and a Glock. It holds 6 rounds in a flush fit magazine, giving it a total capacity of 7 .40 S&W cartridges. It was bought new from work.
It's incredibly thin - makes my 1911's look fat honestly. The grip is just long enough for me to get a full firing grip with all fingers on the gun. The barrel is 3.5" long (same as my Colt) but the overall length is shorter I believe.
It feels a lot like firing a S&W revolver that's had an action job. The trigger pulls smooth as hell straight back without any stacking, can't tell when the trigger's going to break
It has the grip angle of a Browning Hi Power/1911, so it naturally points where I want it to. I've been using 1911's and a Hi Power for about a year now, so pretty much all of my draw practice and shooting is based around those ergonomics. It's great for me since I don't have to 're train' myself when I switched over from a .45 to this. If I had been running glocks for that long, I'd definitely have to retrain myself. Most people think "glock" when they think of a low bore height (has to do with how much the gun rotates up in your hand). The Kahrs are even less - they offset the feed ramp to one side, and the trigger mechanism to the other to pull the slide and barrel down. Not to mention it's incredibly thin.
The take down is similar to a Glock, mixed with a 1911. Lock the slide back, clear the gun, and line up the half-moon notch (or the marks on the left front on the slide if you want to follow Kahr's directions), and pull out the slide stop. Pull the slide rearward again while putting downward pressure on the barrel hood to verify the gun is clear, then pull the trigger while pulling the slide forward off of the frame. Standard Glock/Sig/etc. take down of the slide from there.
Reassembly is in reverse, however be careful not to let the slide stop go on top of the small spring that sits under the slide stop. You'll bend it and will have to replace it for the gun to be functional again.
The only real oddity for me about this gun is that it will always jam if you 'slingshot' the slide to load a new magazine. It will not do this if you use the slide stop. This is also mentioned in the owner's manual. That's an oddity I think I can easily live with though.
They make these guns in 1 size smaller, and 1 size bigger, and mount the 4" slide to this midsize frame. They're also available with steel frames, in 9x19mm, .40SW, and .45ACP. They make a very small .380 option, but good luck finding ammo for it right now.
. Next pay check maybe some nite sights, pay check after that? Maybe a .22lr conversion.
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