Well, I gave Kimber a shot..

[BigBuckeye]

But. several hundred rounds after the "break in" I was still getting FTF's...

I said screw it, you only live once...

[elnino31]

Yeah, a kimber break-in is painful... and feels like pissing money away.

That's a bad ass Wilson though. CQB?

Go bucks! Hopefully they can find some offensive rythm this Sat.

[meirvin]

my girl picks them up at every gun show we go to and looks at me with the brown eyes saying but its so pretty and fits my hand, but it seems that every time I come across something on them it is not positive

[BudJr]

Tolerances are too tight. I don't know why people (I don't mean YOU guys) claim the guns are crap when the problem is the things are made so damned tight they aren't worth a shit for several hundred rounds. That doesn't make it a shit gun, they're just stupidly tight.

[OMD]

I've had a 1st gen CDP that has NEVER had a single issue and I am only on my second spring. I'm just not seeing all the issues others have. Maybe mine was "sloppy," but I doubt it as it was a custom shop.

[one]

Tolerances are too tight. I don't know why people (I don't mean YOU guys) claim the guns are crap when the problem is the things are made so damned tight they aren't worth a shit for several hundred rounds. That doesn't make it a shit gun, they're just stupidly tight.

I'm not a Kimber owner but I've had several friends that were. That's a string of horror stories for another thread. What I wanted to mention was a I had a Springfield Armory customized several years ago and it was accurized to the point it was so tight I could barely get the slide off.

Now, thousands of rounds and a number of years later, the slide removes with ease. So I guess the point I'm driving at is if my Springfield could be that tight and still perform 100% (With 230 round nose) then there's no reason I can imagine why a factory tightened Kimber would not run just as well. So while I won't say Kimbers are "shit" guns. There's something not being put together right.

All that said my boss has one that he bought last year that runs like a house afire.

[SGB]

I've had two Kimbers for years with thousands of rounds through each, no problems with either.

[deuce9166]

I have had four and each one has had to go back to Kimber at least once. I finally started sending them to Springfield to get fixed. Though not reliable, they have all been very accurate.

[Johnny Rico]

Tolerances are too tight. I don't know why people (I don't mean YOU guys) claim the guns are crap when the problem is the things are made so damned tight they aren't worth a shit for several hundred rounds. That doesn't make it a shit gun, they're just stupidly tight.

Tightness has nothing to do with it. My two 1911s, a Springfield Custom Carry and a Les Baer Concept II, are tighter than any Kimber I've ever handled and they run and run.

[BigBuckeye]

As for the tolerances....it was not as tight as my TRP....which is not quite as tight as the CQB (Close though).

I shot the TRP back to back and it fed everything...hollow point...alluminum Blazer...