I had a Custom II Stainless in .40 S&W at one point in my life. Back then I was really into precision rifles, and I treated my Kimber the same way.
I developed a load for it that would cut single, oblong holes at 10 yards off a rest...basically a group the size if my thumbnail. It was an extremely accurate pistol, and I used to shoot at clay targets on the 50yd and 100yd line berms when I worked part time as a RSO at a gun range.
Mine came with two magazines, and I bought a third...all Kimber magazines. One magazine ran fine in the pistol initially, one would stovepipe the last round about every other time, and the gun was a jam-o-matic with the third magazine. I bought another aftermarket magazine for the gun, and it ran very well with it. By about 500 rounds, I was down to just the one aftermarket magazine when I took it to the range. I will stand by my opinion that friends don't let friends buy Kimber magazines.
Then there was the issue with stuff like the plastic mainspring housing that I couldn't get over. I'm sure that the look on my face when I discovered that little jewel was pretty priceless. I think even Colt does this on some of their producion guns now...but you won't see me buying a production Colt either.
I've got a good buddy with a two tone Kimber that brought it up when he came to visit. He was boasting about his pistol until I showed him the plastic MSH, and the fit difference on the Dan Wesson of mine that I was shooting. He made some funny faces too when he started looking hard at his gun. For what it is worth, his shot and functioned just fine while he was here.
I am not saying that Kimbers are junk, and some of them are very good shooters. I am saying though that if you judge a pistol by the sum of its parts...you will see why they cost significantly less than a good semi-custom.
I have no experience with Kimber Custom Shop pistols, so I want to make that clear.
I developed a load for it that would cut single, oblong holes at 10 yards off a rest...basically a group the size if my thumbnail. It was an extremely accurate pistol, and I used to shoot at clay targets on the 50yd and 100yd line berms when I worked part time as a RSO at a gun range.
Mine came with two magazines, and I bought a third...all Kimber magazines. One magazine ran fine in the pistol initially, one would stovepipe the last round about every other time, and the gun was a jam-o-matic with the third magazine. I bought another aftermarket magazine for the gun, and it ran very well with it. By about 500 rounds, I was down to just the one aftermarket magazine when I took it to the range. I will stand by my opinion that friends don't let friends buy Kimber magazines.
Then there was the issue with stuff like the plastic mainspring housing that I couldn't get over. I'm sure that the look on my face when I discovered that little jewel was pretty priceless. I think even Colt does this on some of their producion guns now...but you won't see me buying a production Colt either.
I've got a good buddy with a two tone Kimber that brought it up when he came to visit. He was boasting about his pistol until I showed him the plastic MSH, and the fit difference on the Dan Wesson of mine that I was shooting. He made some funny faces too when he started looking hard at his gun. For what it is worth, his shot and functioned just fine while he was here.
I am not saying that Kimbers are junk, and some of them are very good shooters. I am saying though that if you judge a pistol by the sum of its parts...you will see why they cost significantly less than a good semi-custom.
I have no experience with Kimber Custom Shop pistols, so I want to make that clear.