There is something satisfying about firing all steel handguns

Like, I'm assuming, the majority of carriers, I carry a small polymer framed handgun, either a Kahr CM9 or a Glock 43. I prefer the Kahr but the Glock also carries well and is a good shooter. I opt for the smallest handgun in a respectable caliber I can, and the Kahr fits the bill. It's so light I don't even notice it. The weight reduction allows me to carry an extra mag and sometimes a backup.But it's not a lot of fun. 9mm in a pistol about the size of a PPK is a bit snappy. I think sometimes we forget the 9mm was originally only in service sized pistols.I also have a Kahr MK9. It's roughly the same size as the CM9, but it's all steel so there's some heft to it. Shooting it is a pleasure. It still recoils, but the weight of the pistol minimizes it. I find myself taking it to the range every time I shoot. Since it's the same weight as my CM9 , has the same sights, and the same trigger, I figure trigger time with the MK9 directly translates to the CM9.It also looks great. I may be showing my age, but stainless autopistols with wood grips are very visually appealing. Since I don't carry it, and it's just a range toy, I polished it and put the wood grips on. Polymer pistols all kind of look the same.I rarely shoot my CM9. I carry it a lot, and I occasionally put some rounds through it and burn off my carry ammo, but it's not my choice for extended shooting sessions.Kahr is definitely onto something there. The steel pistols came first, but duplicating them in polymer gives the option to train with the soft shooting steel pistol and carry the featherweight polymer ones.Any other manufacturers do something similiar----dimensionally identical pistols in steel and polymer models? via /r/CCW http://bit.ly/2CyqUbG