Posted: 12/16/2012 1:00:48 PM EDT
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After spending much of my time in firearms with AR's and newer model pistols (sig226 and glock) I've decided to take the plunge on a 1911. I want to get this as more a part of collection piece and range shooter rather than fill a niche in my defensive shooting. I've settled on the Kimber line and SIG 1911. I'm leaning Kimber due to the research done. I really prefer to not spend my than $1200 so I'm looking at their custom line and stumbled on these three:
Stainless Target II Stainless TLE II Stainless TLE/RL II Could someone with experience with these models or Kimber in general weigh in. I like to try to do as much research as possible especially when looking at dropping $1000 on a pistol. |
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I have 5 Kimbers and haven't had any issues with them. One thing I don't like with Kimber is the plain black front sight. There just isn't enough contrast for me to pick them up. I've replaced mine with 10-8 brass bead and fiber optic sights. SIGs are pretty good (I carry a C3), but you also have to check them out carefully as well. I just passed on a CPO TacOps. The price was great, but as I was giving the pistol a good once-over, I noticed that there was no gap between the barrel throat and the feed ramp on the frame (Hmmm, I wonder why it was a CPO). So moral of the story is that SIG and Kimber can produce lemons. That being said, I think SIG's customer service is much better so if you ever do have any troubles, your experience with SIG will probably be much better.
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my kimber custom II is my carry gun, getting close to 10k rds with zero failures. shoots all ball i feed it, and i routinely put speer gold dots, winchester ranger ammo, and the crappy winchester jhp "white box" with no issues. it runs every mag i have used-the kimber factory mags, springfield mags(metal form i believe), random gunshow "gi" mags, and of course wilson, cmc, and tripp mags- all run 100%. only bad thing with the blued guns is finish wear, but i don't care what wear she gets..looks good to me
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my kimber custom II is my carry gun, getting close to 10k rds with zero failures. shoots all ball i feed it, and i routinely put speer gold dots, winchester ranger ammo, and the crappy winchester jhp "white box" with no issues. it runs every mag i have used-the kimber factory mags, springfield mags(metal form i believe), random gunshow "gi" mags, and of course wilson, cmc, and tripp mags- all run 100%. only bad thing with the blued guns is finish wear, but i don't care what wear she gets..looks good to me
http://i1308.photobucket.com/albums/s616/garretts1836/45s_zps1bbbf659.jpg Lucky. I get about a 10% failure to feed rate with hollowpoints. Ball is 100% I'm slowly changing things on it over time. So far, just the grips and mainspring housing. I need night sights. I would also like to get it smithed for reliability. 
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my kimber custom II is my carry gun, getting close to 10k rds with zero failures. shoots all ball i feed it, and i routinely put speer gold dots, winchester ranger ammo, and the crappy winchester jhp "white box" with no issues. it runs every mag i have used-the kimber factory mags, springfield mags(metal form i believe), random gunshow "gi" mags, and of course wilson, cmc, and tripp mags- all run 100%. only bad thing with the blued guns is finish wear, but i don't care what wear she gets..looks good to me
http://i1308.photobucket.com/albums/s616/garretts1836/45s_zps1bbbf659.jpg Lucky. I get about a 10% failure to feed rate with hollowpoints. Ball is 100% I'm slowly changing things on it over time. So far, just the grips and mainspring housing. I need night sights. I would also like to get it smithed for reliability. http://i1308.photobucket.com/albums/s611/joe_freerider/2012-09-20160219_zpsea3e419e.jpg What weight recoil spring do you run? My buddy was having about the same failure rate with HPs and I put in an extra wolff 18.5 I had. runs 100% now. Great looking weapon you have there |
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