Posted: 5/3/2009 6:23:36 PM EDT
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Had this thing for a while, and did a little work to it. Its been running great with Wilson 47Ds until today when the 8th round jammed. I am running in fairly wet with break free as a lube. After this malfunction I am wondering if I need to switch back to Gun Butter.
The reason I switched to the Wilson's was because the Kimber factory mags had been giving me some problems. Anyway I am going to try polishing the feedramp and tuning my extractor. Should it be tighter or looser to prevent this kind of malfunction? So you know I've already added a heavy duty recoil spring from Wilson that came in a tune up kit. Perhaps I'll have to send the gun back to Kimber, or maybe just give it the old bandsaw treatment. 
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That is the worst stovepipe jam I've EVER seen! 
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haha. was that seriously on a brochure or just photochopped |
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I have never seen it before. |
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Quoted: Kimber sucks, they can't even cycle shotgun shells. You guys are harsh. We should have sympathy for him for buying a Kimber in the first place.  I'd go back to the original 16 pound recoil spring. then shoot it. Try some different ammo. I have a Commander that used to wheeze and gag on certain types of ammo. Lighten up on the lube. Polishing the feedramp might help. Use a soft Dremel fabric polishing wheel and Flitz, JBs Bore Paste or something similar. Resist the urge to grind metal off the ramp. If your gun is still under warranty, I'd send it back. FWIW, If I owned a Kimber, I'd ship it to a good 1911 gunsmith and have him replace all the fire control parts, the extractor and give it a good trigger job. |
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haha. was that seriously on a brochure or just photochopped It was real. |
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haha. was that seriously on a brochure or just photochopped Real...... The 1911 has a rifled barrel, you need to use the saboted rounds to have it work reliably. |
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wow, I wonder if they kept their jobs. |
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Sorry for the thread hijack skiking8515  haha, no foul. I'm finishing my last project ever for college, gotsta be turned in tomorrow. Just killing some time on the arfcom and trying to get a little help from some folks who might have a little more 1911 ops time than me. Someone should fix the text editor to include arfcom as a correctly spelled word. I don't want it to be Aramco. |
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Quoted: Perhaps I'll have to send the gun back to Kimber, or maybe just give it the old bandsaw treatment. You can send that back to Kimber every week and it will come back in the same condition you sent it in as, not fixed Trust me on that one, I had a Kimber Custom II go back 4 times and it still was never fixed, I never thought about cutting it up yet Use a little grease on the rails of that 1911, JMB wanted it that way 
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a 1911 that has problems. No surprise there. 
Heard that. I had just cleared the eleven-thousandth round a few boxes before (that's right, no shit, over 11K rounds through a stock Colt 1911A1, solid bushing and 11 lb Wolff spring) and my extractor broke. What a piece of shit, huh. Cost me damned near $20 for a new one, and my gun was down for nearly ten minutes. Unbelieveable. And that was about 3000 rounds ago. Hope it never pulls THAT stunt again, or I'll buy some open-chamber-detonation-prone Teutonic polymer instead.
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a 1911 that has problems. No surprise there.
Heard that. I had just cleared the eleven-thousandth round a few boxes before (that's right, no shit, over 11K rounds through a stock Colt 1911A1, solid bushing and 11 lb Wolff spring) and my extractor broke. What a piece of shit, huh. Cost me damned near $20 for a new one, and my gun was down for nearly ten minutes. Unbelieveable. And that was about 3000 rounds ago. Hope it never pulls THAT stunt again, or I'll buy some open-chamber-detonation-prone Teutonic polymer instead. Don't extractors have to be tuned/fitted? Or did you do it yourself? |
