A Blue Kahr PM9

[KahrMan]

So Kahr is partnering with Cabela's to release two custom guns.  An Auto Ordnance 1911 and  a PM9.  The PM9 is robins egg blue.  I absolutely love the PM9 but good god this thing is ugly.  The black and orange 1911 is not much better either.

 

[Oh Shoot]

Yuk.

 

- OS

[Bigiron]

Have to agree.  Butt ugly.

[maroonandwhite]

Why?

[Raoul]

uh

[wileecoyote]

I have a pretty large collection and I teach a lot of students, so I enjoy the oddball guns once in a while. I own the raspberry Ruger LCP for that reason and plan to get the purple LCP soon. I'd love to get the blue PM9 too, but I wouldn't pay a premium for the color variant. In addition to making some new shooters more comfortable during their initial training, the colored guns are also easier to spot during exercises, thus slightly safer. Also, they are usually produced in much smaller quantity thus collector value is often higher many years later. But I dislike any brightly colored gun for concealed carry, as you want those to be hidden and inconspicuous, and you wouldn't want a defensive gun to be perceived as a toy.

[wileecoyote]

Another point: love the Kahr guns but prefer the CM or CW variants because they are cheaper and function the same. And it's a huge pet-peeve of mine when an all-stainless or stainless / polymer gun comes with blued/black magazines. The blue PM9 should have stainless or blue magazines, not blued / black.

[daddyo]

Wonder who they're targeting (pun intended) with these?

[Garufa]

That 1911 looks like something from Home Depot.

[MacGyver]

The blue isn't really my thing, but I can see the market for it.

 

I'm baffled by the orange.  I've no idea what marketing train wreck thought that this would be a good idea - or how their legal team approved it. "Hey, I've got an idea.  Let's paint a gun the same color that they make all the toy guns!"

[KahrMan]

I hadn't even though of the toy gun angle.  That is a really good point.

[E4 No More]

That 1911 looks like something from Home Depot.

Yep! But it needs a bunch of illegals hanging around it to be authentic.

[three5seven]

Fugly firearms intended for women to think that they are cute. Don't know about the 1911 though. Kinda looks like Tennessee Orange!

[mikegideon]

Wonder who they're targeting (pun intended) with these?

 

You know who. Are you gonna make me say it? :)

[nightrunner]

You know who. Are you gonna make me say it? :)

Why must they feed the monster?

[gjohnsoniv]

Compared to the blue, the orange isn't that bad.

[daddyo]

You know who. Are you gonna make me say it? :)

Wimminz?

[A.J. Holst]

Come on guys, pretty obvious it's SAFETY orange

[dcloudy777]

Hmmm... I really want a PM9 to use a suppressor host... I wonder how long before CDNN has these dirt cheap?  :cool:

[Guest sigequinox]

Me thinks the blue is supposed to come across as "Tiffany Blue" for those dang materialistic wives. Hey, whatever convinces them to get a gun is cool by me :) Although the idea seems vaguely familiar to me. hmmmm. Wish I had thought of it first....

 

http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/77265-the-wife-gets-what-the-wife-wants/

[sigrug17]

• Yep  I think,  Kilo guns put together a nice gun and box package in 'tiffany blue.'   Nice sales idea.

[Oh Shoot]

Hmmm... I really want a PM9 to use a suppressor host.....

 

Who makes a barrel?

 

- OS

[dcloudy777]

Who makes a barrel?

 

- OS

 

I have an extra barrel from a "full-size" gun that I'll have cut and threaded if I ever get around to buying the PM9.  I tried it on a friend's PM... it dropped right in and seemed to work fine. 

[Oh Shoot]

I have an extra barrel from a "full-size" gun that I'll have cut and threaded if I ever get around to buying the PM9.  I tried it on a friend's PM... it dropped right in and seemed to work fine. 

 

Yowsa, now that is nifty!

 

- OS

[KahrMan]

I have an extra barrel from a "full-size" gun that I'll have cut and threaded if I ever get around to buying the PM9.  I tried it on a friend's PM... it dropped right in and seemed to work fine. 

 

That would be pretty cool.