They look like good solid strikes to me...

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I have fired several boxes of CD rounds through my Rohrbaugh R9S and I've never had an issue. The strikes from my pistol are lighter than that and it fires every time.
The Rohrbaugh is sensitive to hard primers. I've had FTFire issues with Remington "Green Box" and Winchester "White Box" but never with the Hornady ammo.

Those strikes look good to me and should have fired.

I'm curious as to Hornady's explanation for your issue (especially since it goes in my carry gun). Thanks for posting and please let us know how it all pans out.

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Arkdweller

I think bad ammo. If you have a few left, try it in another gun for fun.

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I have absolutley no experience with Kahr firearms, and to keep from asking a really stupid question could you post a picture of the primers from some of the rounds that did go bang?

The dents are plenty deep, and not nearly far enough off center for that to matter. Bad primers, for sure. I recently commented to a friend that I've had more bad primers in factory ammo in the past year than I've seen in the last 40 years combined. I've been seeing overly hard primers failing to fire in guns that have ALWAYS hit hard enough, along with primers like yours, with deep enough dents that they should have fired, but didn't. Somewhere, QC has gone down the toilet. My problems of late have been with Fiocchi, WW white box, and Remington. No issues yet with Hornady or any other brand, but I've not bought any factory Hornady in over a year. This kind of problem sure shouldn't be cropping up in self-defense ammo.

Not a stupid question at all. First thing I checked. The fired ones look the same except for a small indent as explained in the manual at bottom of page 20.

http://www.kahr.com/DL/kahrmanual.pdf


Here is a pic also.

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Thanks OCD1, what I'm wondering is if the firearm could have fired out of battery, and did you try to fire the rounds a second time?

I found some fired small primers in my loading room that had strikes in the same general location as yours. I pulled the anvils out of them and the indents were still over the anvil.

hard enough hit....just too far off center to me. punch em out and hit em hit a hammer and see if they go bang. that will prove if not being centered is the problem....................

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A few of them I did put back in the magazine and fired. They did go off then after a double strike. As the pistol is striker fired I can not just pull the trigger again (one and only thing that Taurus can do)

I could put these 4 duds in any of my other 9mm or even the same gun and they will probably fire but then i would have none to send back to Hornady. I am 99.9999999% sure its the ammo based on my past documented record of every round I fired in the gun. When factory ammo was cheap and plenty, I would not hesitate to go back to the range and run through a few more boxes. But at $20+ for 25, not gonna happen. I'll load some plated bullets and some xtps and try them.

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Let us know what Hornady has to say, please.