[JJ_Folderol]

“Current production Kimbers are pretty bad. Of the five bought by friends in the last three years, 100% required the intervention of a gunsmith to run properly.”

Interesting.

I’ve recently purchased a Kimber Micro 9 and put a couple of hundred rounds through it last weekend. I fired all the weird 9mm rounds that other 9s have choked on, and it worked flawlessly. That’s standard brass-cased FMJ, poly-coated heavy Russian sub-sonics, short-jacket hollow points, 85gr frangibles, and some other off brand stuff.

Overall, I’m totally impressed with the quality on this thing — fit, finish, and firing.

I’ve been carrying a Ruger SR1911 for a couple years with a shoulder holster (and my chiropractor has been giving me a bunch of crap about it) so I’m shifting to the Kimber for EDC.

I also have a RIA 5” that’s the ‘fun gun’ beater, and both the RIA and the Ruger will feed-fail with the crappy Russian short-jacket hollowpoints and the more ‘square tipped’ premium hollowpoints despite mirror-polished feed ramps.

So I dunno... Send me a Kimber 1911 and I’ll try it out.

[Spktyr]

A polished feed ramp is nice, but the surface finish of the ramp matters a bit less than the angle and contour of the ramp.

The extractor claw in each of those pistols is probably unhappy with you over the steel cased Russian cartridges, poly coating or not. Chambers may be wearing prematurely, too.

Can't send you a Kimber 1911 as I am not a 1911 fan and I don't have any. I respect the 1911 design, but if I am going to carry .45 ACP, I am going to want more than just seven plus one, or ten plus one at best. Why? Because this was my introduction to "No, really, you *do need* a pistol."

My experiences since the LA Riots have done nothing but confirm that for some reason potential assailant only seem come for me in the super jumbo economy family size pack and not in singles or twin packs. Before you ask, no, I have no idea why.

[Spktyr]

I should mention that I am not in the above picture and that I am using it just to demonstrate the circumstances during the riots.

From my experiences, seven just *isn’t* enough.