+1.
I bought my first Kimber on the advice of two police officers.
They had run more than 3,500 rounds through theirs, with no cleaning and each had only one failure.
I thought it was sacrilegious to do that to such a beautiful gun.
I bought one and decided to replicate their experiment. Made me nervous.
Cleaned for the first time after 3,000 rounds and one failure.
I will never do that to a gun again but it does demonstrate the reliability of the weapon and gives me confidence in it’s performance.
I fully breakdown and clean my guns after every use regardless of how many rounds.
The Kimber is a magnificant piece of hardware it feels completely natural in your hand and super well balanced and I can empty a clip very click with a decent grouping.
You bring up another point: cleaning.
Thus far I strip and clean after each trip to the range. That can get tedious sometimes.
I usually shoot once a week. I wonder if I could stretch the cleaning to every other week.
Btw...I find the Kimber clips to be unmatched. They are truly awesome.