We have a set of Kimbers, both stainless variants, and neither one has given us a single issue. Sorry your friends had such trouble. Ours did require a few hundred rounds to smooth things out but other than that they run like sewing machines.
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If you check around online, you’ll find that problems with Kimbers are becoming increasingly common - unfortunately. Looks like they’ve let QC slip in recent years. Lots and lots of Kimber horror stories and photos of crappy machining on recent production guns.
Kimber’s excuse in all five cases of my personal knowledge was that “it has to break in” - entirely aside from whether this should be the case, if it gets to 500 rounds and it’s still not ‘broken in’, it’s broken.
Agreed!
I bring out my other handguns just for show.
When I want to print “smiley faces”, Ms Kimber always delivers.