Kimber owners. High End vs. Low end

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Ford

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I am still waiting on my first 1911 style pistol which will be the Kimber Custom Stainless with Roosewood grips. Anyway this is the Low end of Kimbers Line, can it be expected to shoot as well as say a Gold Match or What I really,really wanted as far as a Kimber the Gold Combat? I am starting to get nervous that I should have just stuck with the Glocks. I hope not because to me it seems like .45 and 1911 go together like peanut butter and jelly. And my wife would kill me if I shelled out over a grand for a gun. So there went a custom job :)
 
Ford, you of all people know that you have brought up a Ford versus Chevy subject! :-)

Shoot the hell out of your new Kimber...the workmanship and accuracy will do more to make you love this gun. Just keep shooting whilst the barrage of opinions flow in, and most of all...keep smiling, you made a great decision!
 
Shoot it and do not worry about it. I have a Custom Target that I love. My standard procedure on any 1911 style gun is to replace the factory barrel with a Kart barrel. I decided to shoot some 25 yd. groups with my Kimber as a baseline before I changed the barrel. Much to my suprise it shot sub 1" groups with 200 gr.SWC bullets and 4.4 - 4.6 grs. of TiteGroup. Guess what did not get changed.
 
I've go a Compact in stainless. It's far more accurate than I am. For the nominal improvement in accuarcy vs the price differential, you can buy an awful lot of ammo and range time. If money were no object, we'd all go for the top shelf stuff, but life's not like that, and life's not fair. You did well, enjoy your new 'baby'. M2
 
From what I have seen of Kimbers they seem like good guns. I bought my first one this past week. Its the Custom Combat Carry model and it has all of the bells and whistles. The gun lists for over a grand, but I bought it at a Pawn Shop, for $400.00 and it was unfired, until I got it home. It shoots great and seems very finely made. If I had had to pay list price, there is no way I could have spent over a thousand bucks, plus tax on a pistol...7th

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[This message has been edited by 7th Fleet (edited March 05, 2000).]
 
According to MikeinVA life's not fair, but ask 7th fleet about his $400 Kimber purchase and I bet he'd disagree...
 
I have a Gold Match, but if I had to start over again, I'd have gotten a lower end model instead. Mainly because I do not like the "Bomar" sight cut that comes on a Gold Match.
Also, the money saved on a lower end model can be used towards true customization in the future.
 
I have a low-end Kimber and my son-in-law has a Gold Match. He is an excellent shot with young eyes. I am a pretty good shot with aging eyes. No matter who is shooting which gun, the difference from "best to worst" group is never more than 1/4". I suspect that, if the truth were known, the young eyes and the Gold Match produce consistently smaller groups than the aging eyes and the "low-end" Kimber. No surprise there! I would not trade my low-end for his Gold Match (unless I could also trade for new eyes. There's a lesson there. By the way, I think that the Rosewood grips on the Custom are absolutely great looking. Happy shooting.
 
Hydejam: In my case its not a matter of life being fair or not. Its simply that a blind hog still finds an acorn every now and then. I got lucky I was there when the kid put the gun in the case and I buy guns there frequently and I always try and get the price down. I saved 89.95 plus tax, they were asking $489.95. Plus the fact that they didn't know what a Kimber was, its the first one they have ever had in stock. Some poor soul hocked his new gun at another location and did not reclaim it, this Pawn Dealer has about six or so scattered around two counties and this gun ended up, as luck would have it, at the right time and place, for this blind hog to scarff it up. :) ...7th

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