aficionado
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i have some questions that you gunsmiths might be able to answer.
i have a brand new kimber ultra carry cdp. i've fired about 400 rounds through it. out of that 400 rounds there have been about 20 malfunctions. the most common one is that the slide locks back prematurely. the slide catch is just barely catching the slide with the corner of the catch, not fully engaging it. i have used 2 different mags in the gun & the problem has happened with both of them.
another problem that has cropped up a few times is that the slide doesn't always go fully into battery. perhaps that's due to the slide catch snagging briefly, but i'm not sure.
finally, i've had quite a few failure to feeds. there are two different varieties of this. sometimes the nose of the bullet stays down like it's caught in the mag instead of being angled up. that type of failure seems to happen with the stock mag that came with the gun. the other kind seems to happen primarily with a full-size mag i was using -- the cartridge gets wedged with the bullet nose against the top of the barrel.
all of the failure to feeds have been with S&B ball -- no problems with the 100 jhp's i've fired through it.
the problems do seem to be tapering off, but it's hard to tell. is it likely that simply shooting a few hundred more rounds through the gun will solve them? or do these things sounds like something that would require gunsmithing to fix? i'm beginning to wonder if the cheap sellier & bellot ammo i'm shooting is contributing to the problems.
i have a brand new kimber ultra carry cdp. i've fired about 400 rounds through it. out of that 400 rounds there have been about 20 malfunctions. the most common one is that the slide locks back prematurely. the slide catch is just barely catching the slide with the corner of the catch, not fully engaging it. i have used 2 different mags in the gun & the problem has happened with both of them.
another problem that has cropped up a few times is that the slide doesn't always go fully into battery. perhaps that's due to the slide catch snagging briefly, but i'm not sure.
finally, i've had quite a few failure to feeds. there are two different varieties of this. sometimes the nose of the bullet stays down like it's caught in the mag instead of being angled up. that type of failure seems to happen with the stock mag that came with the gun. the other kind seems to happen primarily with a full-size mag i was using -- the cartridge gets wedged with the bullet nose against the top of the barrel.
all of the failure to feeds have been with S&B ball -- no problems with the 100 jhp's i've fired through it.
the problems do seem to be tapering off, but it's hard to tell. is it likely that simply shooting a few hundred more rounds through the gun will solve them? or do these things sounds like something that would require gunsmithing to fix? i'm beginning to wonder if the cheap sellier & bellot ammo i'm shooting is contributing to the problems.