I’ve been watching Kahr arms for a long time. It was a good while before I became the huge fanboy of their products.
Still I remember reading an article when the first T-series Kahar pistols were introduced. The article mentioned that the “T” stood for “Target” which I found laughable. The pistol reviewed was IIRC the TP9. I found this name rather laughable as the gun didn’t have the traditional features of a target gun. Long Barrel, heavy construction, target grips with thumb shelf, adjustable sights. Really it’s just the same old defensive gun with a longer grip and a longer barrel.
Still what makes a gun accurate over long ranges doesn’t need all of that. We’ve seen that with Hickok45’s videos where he takes all sorts of small concealed carry guns and rings his big gong at 100 yards consistently, then starts taking out silhouette targets of smaller size at similar ranges.
Really most guns with good construction are more accurate than the shooter holding it, and Kahr’s Justin Moon puts his money where his mouth is.
Nice shooting! Also note this is not a TP series gun with the more expensive match-grade polygonal-rifling barrel, but the CT9 which has the cost reduction features.
Still they had to double-down, and they did it with a gun I was hoping they’d come out with:
The CM45! That’s the lower-cost version of Eleanor! Note they did even better with this gun. The slower .45 ACP pistol out of such a small gun doesn’t make it easier, still looking at the target this video was shot after that first one, so they were just warming up!
It’s a lot harder to hit a distant target with a smaller gun. You don’t have as much to hang on to, and while a shorter sight radius isn’t any less accurate, it’s easier to see what the gun is doing in your hand as you stage the trigger to make the shot if you have a longer distance between the sights.
Still that doesn’t mean the gun can’t do exactly what you saw here, and even the budget guns from Kahr can do the job as well as the pricy ones!
Well Weer’d, my pop got one of the first T9’s. (He actually traded in a sigma 40ve for it got about $300 off 😀 )
It came with the three dot style adjustable MMC rear sight with nice wood Hogue grips and was called the Target 9.
About six months to a year later they had the same pistol with night sights labeled as the Tactical 9.
So don’t get too hung up on the naming.
Iz Kahr, iz good.
Heh. The “T” stands for “Tactical”, as in “full size service pistol.”
If they’d make those T-series guns (at least the 9mm and .40 ones) double stack mag versions, I’d buy one. If they made them using someone else’s readily available magazine, I’d trample Grandma in my haste to shove money across the counter.
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