This is a testimonial from Shooterdave who seems to be a very satisfied Kimber owner. The post doesn't seem to make sense to me. Would anyone of us spend $20,000 on a brand new car and accept anything less than perfection??? Obviously, some of us would.
"I just got and shot my new Custom Classic last night and wow!--can this puppy can shred paper At 10 yards I was getting tiny, ragged holes where ostensibly 14 rounds had passed (which is amazing accuracy, especially for me).
The pistol is a fine testimony to the machinist's art, and I was especially pleased with the gun's fit considering that it is Kimber's "bottom of the line" model. Slide-to-frame fit is scary tight (perhaps too tight?) and the beavertail is mated to the frame with extremely close tolerances. Trigger might have been in the 4.5 lb range and it was very crisp with zero creep-like breaking glass.
In all, I ran 200 rounds of 230 grain ball through the gun, and experienced only two hiccups.
1) Bullet nose in the magazine nudged the slide stop up in the middle of a string-will wait and see if this is a recurring problem, and will consider replacing/milling slide stop.
2) Failure to eject-almost a stovepipe, but the casing got caught parallel to the barrel which really chewed up the casing mouth. This is a problem that I will have to address now, and I blame the extractor, since the gun was throwing casings almost straight back-the rear bevel of the ejection port was dotted with brass specks where the cases would bounce off and it's concievable that this one casing just didn't clear the slide. Extractors have always been an Achilles heel of the 1911 design so I'm not discouraged-might try an aftek adjustable extractor."
Can you believe this is a satisfied shooter??? For those of us who own SIGS, HKs, Glock malfunctions are very rare (unless you got one of those nasty .40 229s that seem to plague the SIG name, or have a "one in a million" lemon). When I spend $600+ on ANY gun, it better work, or its going back. This notion of accepting anything less than perfection, or expecting to invest further into a brand new gun, just to make it work right, is crazy to me. Can someone explain this to me???
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"By His stripes we are healed..."
PeterGunn
"I just got and shot my new Custom Classic last night and wow!--can this puppy can shred paper At 10 yards I was getting tiny, ragged holes where ostensibly 14 rounds had passed (which is amazing accuracy, especially for me).
The pistol is a fine testimony to the machinist's art, and I was especially pleased with the gun's fit considering that it is Kimber's "bottom of the line" model. Slide-to-frame fit is scary tight (perhaps too tight?) and the beavertail is mated to the frame with extremely close tolerances. Trigger might have been in the 4.5 lb range and it was very crisp with zero creep-like breaking glass.
In all, I ran 200 rounds of 230 grain ball through the gun, and experienced only two hiccups.
1) Bullet nose in the magazine nudged the slide stop up in the middle of a string-will wait and see if this is a recurring problem, and will consider replacing/milling slide stop.
2) Failure to eject-almost a stovepipe, but the casing got caught parallel to the barrel which really chewed up the casing mouth. This is a problem that I will have to address now, and I blame the extractor, since the gun was throwing casings almost straight back-the rear bevel of the ejection port was dotted with brass specks where the cases would bounce off and it's concievable that this one casing just didn't clear the slide. Extractors have always been an Achilles heel of the 1911 design so I'm not discouraged-might try an aftek adjustable extractor."
Can you believe this is a satisfied shooter??? For those of us who own SIGS, HKs, Glock malfunctions are very rare (unless you got one of those nasty .40 229s that seem to plague the SIG name, or have a "one in a million" lemon). When I spend $600+ on ANY gun, it better work, or its going back. This notion of accepting anything less than perfection, or expecting to invest further into a brand new gun, just to make it work right, is crazy to me. Can someone explain this to me???
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"By His stripes we are healed..."
PeterGunn