Hand racking of the pistol feeds rounds more consistently.
The metal follower has a profile that keeps the nose of the bullets up, aiding their travels up the feed ramp.
The shape of the follower is improved. Smooth operation helps make your pistol feed consistently. You can even press on the corner of it, and it will move smoothly down the tube. Our follower slides smoothly in the magazine tube. Consistently smooth magazine operation. There is no insert that can separate from the main body of the part. The face that locks back the slide on the metal followers is precision CNC machined in the same operation that forms the part. The slide lock after the last round on a factory follower is controlled by a metal insert that is inserted in the factory molded part. Slide lock is more reliable with the metal followers. A broken follower can cause the pistol to malfunction. The factory followers are nylon and can be broken if the barrel strikes the follower after shooting the last round. The aircraft grade aluminum followers are so strong, they are unbreakable in normal use in a pistol. This “fitting” process is whole lot better than a broken follower or a damaged barrel with other materials. Yet the aluminum is much stronger than plastic and doesn’t actually wear out. A stainless follower doesn’t get “dinged” up, but the barrel of the pistol does and that is not acceptable.Īluminum is great in this application because it “gives” a little where needed to accommodate pistol to pistol variations without doing any harm to the pistol itself. One of our cardinal rules is our parts should not be able to damage the pistol. A stainless follower is cost competitive with the aluminum and its secondary anodizing. If you are familiar with Lakeline products, you know we are not shy about using stainless steel. Again, this is not an issue for functionality in any way. The followers get a similar type of look where they contact the slide stop, on the upper surface behind the area where the barrel contacts the follower in the photos above. That ding causes no issues with the follower, the functionality or the pistol. Lakeline aluminum followers will not break, but they will get a ding in them if the barrel repeatedly hits them as both followers in the photo above demonstrate. That is one of the characteristics of the Kahr design that has been the case from the get go. The plastic, factory followers can and sometimes do, break if the barrel contacts the follower after the last round is fired. It has some real advantages, but one of them is not that it will still look pristine after operating in a Kahr pistol for hundreds of rounds.Īs shown in the photos, there are parts that can, and do, contact the followers that leave a mark with time. Aluminum was chosen for our follower material after careful consideration, and experimentation, with other materials.
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