Kimber?

[gunman42782]

I have been carrying a Kimber Ultra Carry for the past 5 years.  My favorite carry gun of all time.  It has never been nothing but 100 percent reliable. 

[wheels]

I say it depends on what your going to do with the gun. I just purchased a 1911 trp for 1k from a police officer. While the gun is a perfect gun, he felt self conscious about carrying it in horrible weather. Also he did not want it scratched up if he was on the ground fighting someone - so he went back to his glock. I got a great gun and enabled a police officer to get out of the gun without much of a financial loss.

I am just going to use the gun for home defense. It will probably be a safe queen. Maybe it will be my daily carry gun after I figure out a good holster that works for me.

If you got the coin get the kimber and enjoy. Don't worry about the money. If your really worried about the money - then don't own a gun. For most of us, this is a expensive paper hole punch anyway.

[Rastus]

I have two, a Team Match in 45 and an Eclipse in 10MM.  I like 'em.

However...the pro trainers I know were seeing a disproportionate number of failures in classes with the new ones in previous years....haven't heard about the last 6 mos. or so.  I have heard really good things about the Ruger and the Remington 1911's though.

[red364]

Who knew I was so patient?  It finally got here!  I like it a lot and can't wait to shoot it!!!

[Solus]

Congratulations, Red 

I bet you'll love it after you shoot it.

But what happened to it?  It looks blue?

 

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[Ichiban]

Puuurrrdy!  Was that the one on GunBroker?

[ellis4538]

red, that's Purdy enough to go in the "Party Pistol" thread!  Just enough engraving but not too much.

Richard

[jaybet]

That's almost "girly". If it shoots good, you're in great shape.

[blackwolfe]

Nice one Red, let us know how it shoots.

I figured you would get it, it's blue.

[mooner]

Nice looking gun.  A little gaudy for me, but very nice anyway.

I have a Ruger and my Dad has a TLE II.  His gun is nicer, but it took a trip back to the factory to get it reliable.  He was getting failure to ejects quite often.  My Ruger has been mostly very reliable.  The TLE has a checkered front strap, which is nice, and the whole gun is very tight.  The trigger is also a bit nicer on his gun, not that the Ruger has a bad trigger by any means.  The machining on the inside of the Kimber also looks a bit nicer.

As far as accuracy goes, I don't think either one of us is good enough to tell the difference.  I payed $620 for my Ruger and he paid around $900.  Probably should have paid $150-$200 more, but the gun was rang up as a Stainless II by the big store he bought it from.  They found the mistake, but let him keep it at the price he paid.  It is not twice as nice as my Ruger, but I do like the checkered front strap...

Oh, after he got it back from Kimber we could tell that they obviously tightened up the barrel/bushing fit as part of the re-work because it is now tight as a drum.  Bummer to have to send it back in, but I guess there was a little bonus for the extra effort.