Kimber 1911 sights front and rear ??

[Ray P]

Did anyone have to adjust there sights from the factory? If you needed to adjust..........did you send the slide back to Kimber? Use an adjusting too?? Or anything else?

Just got some question on how too?
Thanks for any help.
My sons Kimber CovertII is printing @ 9'oclock on the edge of a 10" paper plate at 15 yards with winchester white box 230 grn hard ball ammo. It shoots the same place for both of us??
Later
Ray P.

[Captqc]

Hi Ray, yup I had a Kimber that the sights were off like what you describe. The allen set screw in the rear sight hit me in the head during firing. I adjusted the sights myself with a borrowed sight pusher and used blue Loctite when I replaced the set screw. Gary

[got_rut]

Unfortunately, I have had to adjust the sights on the Ultra Carry II I baught for my wife. It would have been fine if I would not have had to also adjust the extractor, ejector, sear and spring. Long story after sending it in due to excessive jamming with +P ammo, I got it back 6 weeks later and had to do all the work myself. Out of the pistols I own, Para, Ruger, Sig and Kimber; the Kimber is hands down the biggest loser of the bunch. I would make a couple of suggestions to whoever is contemplating buying one; 1) get in close with a good gunsmith (you will need it), 2) tie a string to the gun so that when it jams after the first shot you can throw it at the perp and retrieve it with the string for another toss.

The best advice is from the poeple that have lived it.

[Rick in Oregon]

The best advice is from the poeple that have lived it.

I'll agree with that, but out of the four Kimber .45's I own, I've never had a jam, extraction problem, feed problem, or any other problem imagined or perceived, period. They all shoot to point of aim too. I carry my .45 Ultra Carry CDP-II daily, and have just over 600 rounds through it without a single problem of any kind.



I had night sights installed on one of my old Clakamas Oregon pistols at the NY factory, and when it was returned, the sights were regulated to perfect POI for 230gr ammo, and that gun is over 20 years old with exactly one failure to feed, and that was with a cast bullet handload.

Wish I could say the same for all the Colt 1911 .45's I've owned over the years. Just because you may have received one possible lemon doesn't make the entire brand bogus.

[got_rut]

I am sure the pistols you have are all nice guns. They should be for $1100 bucks a pop, not some POS that jams 10% of the time. I have accepted the fact that I most certainly got a lemon, but that doesn't change the fact that the customer service is terrible. I had to threaten them by saying I was going to video this brand new gun jamming constantly with the ammo they told me to use, and post it on every blog I could find. Only after that would they give me their token..."we checked it over and shot one round through it". You know where they can stick that kind of BS. Like I said I am ok with it....I just happen to have all the tools I need to make this a truly "custom" gun, the way it should have arrived. I am glad your guns perform the way they should, mine doensn't and they won't make it right. This all equals me never owning another Kimber. Period

[Rick in Oregon]

This all equals me never owning another Kimber.

As a very hard to satisfy and picky bugger, I, along with four of my close friends are more than pleased with our Kimber .45's, and find it unfortunate you had such an isolated bad experience. Their C/S Dept. has come through every time I've used them. My wife buys from them on a weekly basis, has always had excellent service and told me they're one of her favorite vendors to do business with.

Sometimes the customers attitude dictates the level of service delivered. JMO

[got_rut]

Sometimes the customers attitude dictates the level of service delivered

You are almost right here....it always dictates the level of service. I believe we are talking 2 different animals. I am sure all you are buying from kimber is .45, I on the other hand purchased a 9mm for my wife. I believe this is why the customer service was less than terrible. But, like I said previously. I don't care because I would rather fix the sear, ejector and extractor myself instead of someone not wanting to do it in the first place. I will also dehorn and polish to make it what a custom gun should be.

[Bayou City Boy]

After reading this thread, I have to agree with Rick on several points:

1. The Kimbers I own have all been very good, reliable, and serviceable handguns.

2. "Just because you may have received one possible lemon doesn't make the entire brand bogus."

3. "Sometimes the customers attitude dictates the level of service delivered.'

Just a guess, but I'm thinking the last two might really apply here.....

JMO - BCB

[Valar]

Hmm well I hope this is Just a Isolated Kimber case. I am waiting delivery of my new Kimber custom2 1911 in 45 ACP. I have always wanted a 1911 and up till now read mostly 100 percent positive reveiws. I have eard some 1911s period can be quirky? I will post my luck for any that are interested,after testing next week.

[Valar]

Folks I took delivery of my Kimber Custom 2 1911 in 45 acp, 5 inch barrel! I have to say this gun sets the standard bye which I will judge all other handguns! This firearm was awsome right out ofthe box. Extreamly tight tolorence , makes my Walther look like junk.
Cleaned it ,and took it to the range accuracy was excellent with no adjustment. I set up at 15 yards a shot a target and after 40rounds beer cans. I hit a beer can 6 of seven shots, I pulled one shot. My son has a Taurus 45 acp 24 7 with 5 inch barrel. He was anxious to try the Kimber! He shot a seven round clip at cans on a rail target and was all smiles! He said dad that gun is worth every penny! I have to agree. I purchased thru Budsguns.com and have to say awsome price service and shipping. Gun was here in 3 buisness days!
I plan to make a custom set of fiddle back walnut grips and add some night sites. The gun functioned flawless with the provided seven round mag and also a kimpro 8 rnd. stainless. I have been breaking in with standard 230 G ball ammo! I could goon and on!

[TONK]

I purchased a Kimber Carry model around 5 years ago with fixed sights. It shot 1 inch low at 12 yards, cutting a 1.35 inch whole out of the center of the target. I never bothered about putting adjustable sights on that pistol as it was meant to carry. My target Kimber is a 2 inch gun at 25 yards off handed and will shot 2 inch groups with match ammo all day long at 50 yards off a rest!

[Guy M]

Very happy with my good old Kimber, purchased brand new 15 years ago when Kimber 1911's were brand spanking new on the market. It's had a round or two through it now, and yeah, I carry it every day and shoot it almost every week. Not sure how many rounds are through it now. 50,000, 60,000 ? More? Dunno for sure. It shot point of aim with the factory sights. I replaced them with Heinie night sights as soon as they were available. On the second set of Heinie Straight 8 night sights now. No big deal to adjust the rear sight: loosen the screw, drift the rear sight as necessary with a punch & hammer - time proven since 1911.

My Kimber, and my son's new Kimber, both pretty much trouble free:


Mine:


Fairly well worn:


It's taken a mule deer, been carried on patrol for 15 years, been used on SWAT duty for ten years, and has served as my primary sidearm during 15 years of Firearms Instructor/Rangemaster duty. Never broke a single part. I have replaced the grips a few times when they wore out. Also replaced the recoil spring and firing pin spring every 1000 - 1500 rounds or so. Did re-stake the plunger tube assembly. It's been a good gun, and when it came time to get my youngest son his carry gun, the choice was obvious: Kimber.

Regards, Guy

[Rick in Oregon]

Guy: That's one well-worn Kimber Classic Custom alright! Looks to be honorable wear....nuthin' wrong with that. When a guy can actually wear out a couple sets of grips, well, that tells me that man actually USES his pistol.

Like you, all four of my Kimber pistols are running well also....my Classic Custom (Clakackamas OR gun) is still running strong without a single FTF or FTE in all the years I've owned it ('cept for one FTF w/a cast bullet mentioned above), no broken parts on any of 'em either. I sent my Classic Custom back to the factory five years ago to have Metpolight night sights installed, and it even shot to the sights upon its return.....nice. A 5" TLE/RL II is my bedside companion, replete with Surefire X400 light/laser for the 'warm & fuzzy', and they all wear Wilson Combat mags as yours does.

Pic taken w/Kimber mag, prior to switching all out to Wilson:



Thanks for sharing your pics....nuthin' like good gun porn.

[Valar]

Thought some of you might like to see the grips I made for my Kimber Custom 45
http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/k57 ... f267fe.jpg

[TD-Max]

I don't have a ton of rounds through my Pro CDPII but the ones that I have fired have been true. Mine has the glow in the dark "nuclear" sights and really like them. I also added a set of CT Master series laser grips. I'm not a good enough shot yet to determine just how accurate the gune, sights, or ammo is, but I do well on the small disc on my spinner target and shot a turkey in the low neck at 20 yds. Never adjusted anything, just stripped, cleaned, lubed with Eezox and reassembled.

Also got the same Sparks VMII holster as Rick.