It is hard to see that from a Kimber unless people were not cleaning them or something
I don't know if you actually read the article, but the writer's point was that the leadership of ALE has a history of buying premium firearms, keeping them for a very short service life, then selling them at bargain prices to agency personnel.
I don't know if you actually read the article, but the writer's point was that the leadership of ALE has a history of buying premium firearms, keeping them for a very short service life, then selling them at bargain prices to agency personnel.
I agree. There are always guns that have bad runs. Even names like Colt and S&W have them. If the company that makes a 1911 you like has a bad run, you can get another one made by somebody else. Or even build one yourself. Top Shot has one on right now made by Colt. :biggrin:Well, I've been wearing a Kimber Pro Carry for years. But I must admit, I had the ambi safety removed, replaced with another conventional safety, because I had issues with the detent and the safety "sneaking up" enough to stop the gun. A first attempt at reshaping the safety (mostly on the theory my thumb was nudging it) failed.
I am not sold on recoil spring guide rods, and am not impressed that field stripping is more difficult than a standard Goverment Model.
The gun shoots fine, though does not like getting filthy. I've run into reloads that wouldn't chamber, but my buddy's P90 shot 'em just fine.
I don't like the plastic trigger and plastic mainspring housing, but they work (I understand newer Kimbers have gone to metal on these parts.
My Beloved Kathleen has been lusting after a Kimber Super Carry Custom, wanting the full length barrel, reduced weight of alloy frame, and improved concealment factor of the Kimber copy of the Ed Brown Bobtail.
I get the impression that Kimber's success in recent years had caused production to run away from quality control.
I'll have to do a bit more research, while saving up the shekels...
If Kimber copied the Bobtail, so must have others. In this, the 100th anniversary year of John Moses Browning's masterpiece, there are 60 companies making 1911's. There are bound to be other good ones out there.
How come I can never find these really bad Kimbers I hear about for sale?
I've also heard a lot of trash about Sigs in the past 6 months, but I can't find those really cheap, either! Exception being the Sig 250s, which just are cheap (price...as in inexpensive).
The people that I know that own Kimbers (including little old me) love them, trust them, and have had no problems of note with them. Granted that's only a couple of dozen guns, but it makes me wonder how we all got so lucky...
Same with the SIG owners that I know. Maybe that's only 60 guns or so, but these are people I know and guns that I've handled or shot.
Once again: any of you poor, unlucky souls stuck with a premo SIG or Kimber that you need to sell real cheap, email me! I'm willing to help!