The PM9’s 3-inch barrel, overall length of 5.42 inches and 4-inch height from top to bottom with the six-round magazine inserted all add up to one of the smallest practical carry packages you’ll find anywhere in a quality-made 9mm pocket pistol. The end result in the version tested here is a slim, trim and entirely pocket-worthy 17-ounce 9mm package no thicker than 0.9 inches wide on the matte stainless slide, and 0.950 inches through the grip area.
With the ramp positioned left of center, this provides room to move the trigger draw bar closer to center on the right. 45 WarriorĪside from their surprisingly small sizes for full-powered calibers, the PMs also feature a unique and reliable offset barrel/integral feed ramp design, allowing a thin frame cross-section and an equally surprisingly simple internal mechanism. RELATED STORY: Cylinder & Slide Trident II – A U.S. 45 ACP use the same basic action of their all-steel cousins, with the same no-frills approach with fixed sights, black polymer frames, single-stack magazines, double-action-only (DAO) triggers and two-finger grips.
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Kahr’s PM series debuted in 2004, as a lighter and smaller evolution of the company’s already compact line of pistols dating back to 1994. The PM9’s non-captive dual recoil spring assembly helps the subcompact pistol tame the 9mm recoil. Today, we have a great range of truly pocketable pistols to choose from, at various price and power levels, and we can even find a few where custom work takes the game up a notch, like Cylinder & Slide’s (C&S) recent work with the concealable Kahr PM9. The spread of concealed-carry permits added to the tidal wave in the 1990s, when thousands of new carriers quickly got tired of trying to deal with heavy, full-sized pistols and the trend toward smaller pistols in “serious” calibers ramped up. It wasn’t until the mid-1980s, with the explosion of “defensive” demands as a market-driver, that smaller designs (that began as smaller designs) started to emerge in the mainstream market. 25s, but most were still fairly bulky and needed a good-sized pocket to carry in. 380s followed in the 1970s and 1980s, which were a step up in power over the. And while they offered some concealment advantages, they were still band-aid approaches and few were true pocket pistols by today’s standards. Most were blowbacks, because it wasn’t easy to fit the locked-breech system of the more powerful full-sized pistols into such a tiny package.Ĭhopped versions of bigger-bore semi-autos were tried with some success, like the highly-modified ASP version of the 9mm Smith & Wesson Model 39 in the 1970s, but those and other chop jobs were simply whittled-down versions of full-sized pistols. 25 ACP for many years, since those small frames limited power levels.
The challenges of balancing those pressures-cartridge lengths, slide mass, slide velocity, and magazine components-all combine to keep pocket autos (true pocket autopistols, anyway) confined to calibers like the. While it’s comparatively easy to maintain mid-bore power levels in a small revolver, the situation’s much more complex in an autoloader, where so much depends on the pressures of the caliber to simply operate the action. With a revolver, you can trim the barrel, abbreviate the grip and still stick to a relatively powerful caliber, all without having to re-engineer the frame or the relationship between slide mass and spring tensions, among other considerations that come with modifying semi-autos. Underpowered loads will still function perfectly fine if necessary since the action is cycled by the operator, not the ammunition, and reliability isn’t affected in going smaller as it can be with an autopistol. While they originated much earlier, Henry Deringer made both a name for himself and an entire class of small handguns with his highly successful, single-shot percussion Philadelphia Derringer between 1852 to 1868, and the derringer label has pretty much become synonymous for any small one-, two- or four-shot pistol today.Ĭutback versions of revolvers have been popular since Samuel Colt’s time, and with a revolver’s ability to fire just about anything you can put into its chambers without malfunctioning, they can offer great reliability along with serious ballistics. Pocket guns have a long and interesting history.
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