Just found this thread as the Forum search function seems to hate me and I had to resort to "next page" search here.

Sorta new to micro pistols, other than the Performance Center Shield my wife bought some years ago after a coworker was raped doing a site visit on a new road into a development in planning - she stumbled into a meth cook (Montana does have a meth problem). Anyways, the Shield is pretty good but injuries have caught up with my wife and she's starting to have problems manipulating the slide.

And some lifestyle changes have resulted in a decision to pick up a micro 9mm to have as an alternative to the C series Browning High Power I've owned, carried, and competed with a bit since the early '70s. The handguns in the safe are overwhelmingly K frame S&Ws as a result of years of addiction to competing in PPC. So - for me - I like single action, 5-7 lb trigger pulls are a feature instead of a bug on an adrenaline pistol, and safeties on pistols are what I want.

I shot a Kimber Micro 9 Crimson Trace about five years ago at a fundraiser shooting event where Kimber (still in Kalispell at the time) donated a bunch of pistols to the event, still in the boxes and shipping oil. That Micro 9 was SWEET! Felt just right in the hand, trigger was more than good enough for the intended purpose, safety easily and positively manipulated, etc. Had to talk myself out of buying one at the time by reminding myself I had no use for it and enough handguns to try and keep the dust shot off all of them already.

ANYWAYS... headed to the local gun barn as they had a sale on their Micro 9s in stock, intending to leave with a Micro 9. I left disappointed and feeling like I just got told Santa Clause doesn't exist.

I tried four (maybe 5?) of the Micro 9 variants they had on display. The safety's really sucked on all of them, had to put some effort into pushing off safety. The one with ambidextrous safety, the meat of my hand stopped the off side safety from moving down. Triggers were okay, but definitely not what I remembered (five years is a long time to remember what a trigger pull previously felt like, I know). The killer was that the gun guy (who I know) at the counter who works there as a side gig from his job as a local cop told me that there's a high rate of problems with the Micro 9s the store sells. I didn't think to ask, but I noticed that the Micro 9s were the only compacts and Kimber handguns they had on sale.

He showed me the CSX next - I didn't even know such a thing existed as I'm not really looking for The Next Gun I Will Buy these days on the very wrong side of senior citizen status. It felt almost, but not quite, as good in the hand as the Micro 9. Felt a tiny bit thicker - but not as bad as the size increase from the T/C series Hi Powers to the Mk IIIs.

Soooo.... with all that said... after this amount of time, what are your feelings on the Micro 9 versus the CSX? Both in subjective feelings after some time shooting both and problems/issues?

When I started poking around looking on the Web, it wasn't hard to find criticism and complaints about both. But corporate owner/user knowledgebase is far more interesting to me.

I am mildly surprised there's so little in the way of forum content on this pistol compared to others, just as it appears there is little in the way of third party offerings to improve the stock pistol (whether those products are actually improvements is always open to question). The only thing I think I'd miss is the built in Crimson Trace in the Micro 9 that worked well even on a sunny summer day outside, and some choices in high visibility replacement sights. Old guys whose last name isn't Miculek need all the help they can get with eyesight/aiming...

Anyways, the feedback on the pistol from buyers/users has trailed off a bit, and I am interested in your opinion after owning both the Micro 9 and CSX for a while.

One of them will eventually be going home with me; hopefully I won't have my first experience with sending a handgun back to the manufacturer.

Thanks to all.