Byron Quick
Staff In Memoriam
I've had a Kimber Classic Gold Match for a few months now. The first couple of hundred rounds throught the weapon produced about four or five failures to feed. I was not pleasedl-visions of having to send it back to the factory were running through my head. Since then I've shot about a thousand rounds through it with no problems attributable to the handgun. I recently ran about five hundred rounds through it of several different varieties without cleaning it. (This was over a three day period where I was seriously pressed for time) Not a single malfunction.
I went back to the range today and shot a hundred rounds of Georgia Arms 230gr. Gold Dot. One failure to feed the last round of a magazine and the slide did not lock back after that round was fired. Apparently the magazine had gotten some sand in it. Well, it had been some time since I have practiced malfunction clearance so I loaded a fired case into a couple of magazines to force a malfunction. It didn't work-the kimber loaded the empty cases. I was surprised so I tried it some more-same result. I'm starting to get fairly impressed with this handgun.
I went back to the range today and shot a hundred rounds of Georgia Arms 230gr. Gold Dot. One failure to feed the last round of a magazine and the slide did not lock back after that round was fired. Apparently the magazine had gotten some sand in it. Well, it had been some time since I have practiced malfunction clearance so I loaded a fired case into a couple of magazines to force a malfunction. It didn't work-the kimber loaded the empty cases. I was surprised so I tried it some more-same result. I'm starting to get fairly impressed with this handgun.