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I own two, a Pro Carry II, and the Target II. Nice guns but I prefer my Springfield Armory stock 1911. Right out of the box, dead center accurate plus I got 2 magazines, a holster, mag holster, and a coupon to purchase more magazines at a discount. It cost $400 less than a Kimber.
It was a shame to see them move out of our home state.
Besides their excellent 1911 lineup, they made some beautiful rifles.
I had picked up a Kimber Micro nine, nice looking little firearm, but didn’t like it but didn’t hate. But still got rid of it, so that kind of tainted me towards Kimber. Just me. I currently breaking a Bersa thunder plus, I like the way it feels in my hand, it is a little bigger than the micro nine , but not by much and still is concealable.
Dear Mr. Pat,
Would you consider doing some shotgun and accessories reviews? Your opinion and insight are valued by many of us and there is a plethora of knife and hand gun reviews for us but, many of us are left sans reviews on many scatter gun reviews for ammo and accessories with only bubba and YouTube and milk jugs to base our preps off of.
I have been looking for some durable full size 1911 grips (the slim versions do not work very well with my meat hooks) and it looks like Mil-Tac only has the Code Zero grips in beveled and flat bottomed in either black or the black/gray despite having several styles (slim, bobbed) and colors (od, brown, tan, acu, woodland…etc). Thinking I might go with the black/gray Code Zero grip ones but I am liking the look of the ACU as it appears to a slightly subdued OD color. I would just have to figure out whether the ACU would be better diamonded or diagonal patterned.
You might check out VZ Grips. I have them on 2 of my handguns and really love the look, feel and craftsmanship.
I have 2 Kimber 1911’s—the first an older .45 workhorse that functions well and the second an absolutely gorgeous 10 mm in a dark (looks blued) stainless steel. The first time I attempted to strip clean the slide on the 10 mm I was unsuccessful. A call to Kimber resulted in being told by some guy with the typical New York accent and attitude that there is no need to ever detail disassemble the slide. When I insisted that was not the case (carrying on the farm results in very dirty pistols) I was told the rear sight would need to be removed to allow disassembly due to their use of the Swartz firing pin blocker mechanism. And the Swartz safety apparently can have some potentially serious failure to fire issues. I sent the 10 off to have that safety removed and essentially resulting in a series 70 pistol. I will never purchase another Kimber
I had a Kimber Ultra Carry II. It was a nice little pistol but was very ammo sensitive and was not easy to field strip due to the double spring set-up. I finally got rid of it and replaced it with a Glock 21 that I have been very happy with.
I hear more complaints about Kimber 1911 style pistols than just about any other manufacturer ( except maybe Taurus haha ). Maybe it’s because like Pat says they make a lot more than any other US manufacturer or because as John says they have issues. I’ll take my series 70 Colt modified .45 any day. Or the Sig 1911. You can never go wrong with a SIG.