Re: 1911 quality?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: elcam</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tango 396</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Mr. Blasty
I just got int 1911's 2 weeks ago. All my buddies have Colts then send them to one smith or another and have them tuned to their liking. I planned on doing the same with a stock colt railgun....
I have a good friend that is a 1911 addict. He has 27 of them in one form or another......colt's, sti's, kimbers, springfields, les baer's, nighthawks, wilson combat and caspian's.....He pulled me aside and we went to the range with all of them....to be honest I could not tell you the best they all felt good and shot awesome.....but I could not get over how the $1000 kimber shot as compaired to the $2000 customs.... they were pretty darn close...yeah the customs were a bit better but not $1000....plus a pistol is not a bench gun.
Anyway, I ended up going with the Kimber tactical entry II....it had all the options I was looking for from the factory. It shoots like a dream and is all steel. I have not looked back and we have blown through 1500 rounds...it runs like a garden hose....have fun and good luck.....
</div></div> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tango 396</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Mr. Blasty
I just got int 1911's 2 weeks ago. All my buddies have Colts then send them to one smith or another and have them tuned to their liking. I planned on doing the same with a stock colt railgun....
I have a good friend that is a 1911 addict. He has 27 of them in one form or another......colt's, sti's, kimbers, springfields, les baer's, nighthawks, wilson combat and caspian's.....He pulled me aside and we went to the range with all of them....to be honest I could not tell you the best they all felt good and shot awesome.....but I could not get over how the $1000 kimber shot as compaired to the $2000 customs.... they were pretty darn close...yeah the customs were a bit better but not $1000....plus a pistol is not a bench gun.
Anyway, I ended up going with the Kimber tactical entry II....it had all the options I was looking for from the factory. It shoots like a dream and is all steel. I have not looked back and we have blown through 1500 rounds...it runs like a garden hose....have fun and good luck.....
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I like kimber and own one, but understand that most are not right out of the box. Kimber has good customer service and will make it right, but you are the quality control. Mine had to back to get the Chamber reamed out, it was cut too tight. It also pre-mature slide lock backs, and surprisingly they knew about and offered to send me a modified slidelock. Mine now has 10k+ rounds and runs great all the time, but it had growing pains. </div></div>
Sometimes "Double Standards" amaze me. How can something that is supposedly one of the "Best" Factory guns be "not right out of the box"? If I came on here and said my new Taurus PT1911 was "not right out of the box" I would get an endless barrage of "what do you expect" or "I could have told you to expect that" or "It's a piece of crap and you wasted your money". This explains why there are so many Kimbers on G-Broker. I've never owned a Kimber and I'm not here to bash them because everyone loves them so much. I have shot them and was compelled to say how nice they were because it was always a friend's "new" gun. Fact is, they didn't really blow my skirt up. Functioned acceptably and was reasonably accurate. I'm just blown away by the fact that it's apparently acceptable for something that's supposed to be a High Quality pistol to not function perfectly.
I can tell you this... I'll never own a Kimber if this is true
