I've had intermittent issues with my slide stop engaging when it shouldn't. I'll be 2 or 3 shots into a full mag +1 string and I'd have to thumb the slide stop down to finish the mag. It doesn't happen on every magazine, but with enough frequency to bother me. I'm well over the 200 round break in and probably coming up on the 500 round mark with this particular pistol.
A couple of weeks ago, I called Kahr about it and they sent me a new slide stop to try. When I compared the old vs. the new, I could see it wouldn't make my problem any better. My P380 had to make a trip back to Kahr when it was new. They polished some stuff and replaced the slide stop and recoil springs on that trip. I didn't realized how much they had ground down the slide stop where it hangs over the bullets and magazine follower. Putting in the new stop would have made things worse as there was more meat to come in contact with the bullet tip.
I went to the range today with 6 different ammos to try. I knew I wasn't thumbing the slide stop up during recoil, but I was extra careful about that. If I couldn't get one of the 6 ammos to work, my plan was the grind the heck out of the old stop to the point where all it would do is manually engage and eliminate all the meat that lets it manually engage off the magazine follower. So it would work similar to the slide stop on the LCP. I'd sacrifice the automatic slide hold open on empty if it would mean a more reliable gun.
At the range I got the slide stop engagement stoppage with several ammos. As a last resort, I tried the Remington Golden Saber. It was the last one I tried due to other P380 owners not having much luck with it. Happy to report that it's the best choice for this particular P380. I ran through 2 25 round boxes with zero stoppages. Based on the results with the other ammos, I should have had at least 2 stoppages with that many rounds fired.
I'm happy. Still need to try it again soon to be sure, but confidence is returning.
A couple of weeks ago, I called Kahr about it and they sent me a new slide stop to try. When I compared the old vs. the new, I could see it wouldn't make my problem any better. My P380 had to make a trip back to Kahr when it was new. They polished some stuff and replaced the slide stop and recoil springs on that trip. I didn't realized how much they had ground down the slide stop where it hangs over the bullets and magazine follower. Putting in the new stop would have made things worse as there was more meat to come in contact with the bullet tip.
I went to the range today with 6 different ammos to try. I knew I wasn't thumbing the slide stop up during recoil, but I was extra careful about that. If I couldn't get one of the 6 ammos to work, my plan was the grind the heck out of the old stop to the point where all it would do is manually engage and eliminate all the meat that lets it manually engage off the magazine follower. So it would work similar to the slide stop on the LCP. I'd sacrifice the automatic slide hold open on empty if it would mean a more reliable gun.
At the range I got the slide stop engagement stoppage with several ammos. As a last resort, I tried the Remington Golden Saber. It was the last one I tried due to other P380 owners not having much luck with it. Happy to report that it's the best choice for this particular P380. I ran through 2 25 round boxes with zero stoppages. Based on the results with the other ammos, I should have had at least 2 stoppages with that many rounds fired.
I'm happy. Still need to try it again soon to be sure, but confidence is returning.