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Posted: 9/27/2004 6:06:44 PM EDT
My kimber (custom match target) feeds hollowpoints flawlessly but  jams when using hardball, it seems to not matter what brand of ammo or what grain ammo I use if it's hardball it  jams. i have been using wilson 8rnd. mags and i can't correct the problem, can anyone help me or is the kimber going to become the dust collecter of the collection

 
Link Posted: 9/27/2004 6:11:30 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 9/27/2004 6:17:02 PM EDT
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the gun seems to be double feeding as if the longer hard ball is hitting the feed ramp and causing the problum
Link Posted: 9/27/2004 6:21:40 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 9/27/2004 6:30:35 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 9/27/2004 8:08:09 PM EDT
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SGB,  it happens maybe every ten to twenty rnds. and with any manufacture hardball and yes the malfunction is as you described
Link Posted: 9/28/2004 2:03:23 AM EDT
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Both are live rounds? Or is the fired case being trapped by the next round feeding from the magazine?
Link Posted: 9/28/2004 5:57:55 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 9/28/2004 7:53:59 AM EDT
[#8]
both are live rnds.
Link Posted: 9/28/2004 8:32:41 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 9/28/2004 10:26:07 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 9/28/2004 10:29:28 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 9/29/2004 8:49:46 AM EDT
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guys thank you for responding to my post ,I went to a new range yesterday and met a real 1911 nut he showed me where the rnd. was hanging up and we went in the back to the smith shop he pollished the ramp where it meets the chamber and took a little off the top end of the chamber roof with a white pad dremil like magic it  feed 200 rnd. of hardball with out missing a beat
Link Posted: 9/29/2004 10:56:32 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 9/29/2004 11:00:49 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 9/29/2004 12:00:28 PM EDT
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Theoretically, I suppose it is possible that the mag was somehow releasing more than one round at a time once in a while, but...as both Lumpy and SGB know...a "double feed" is usually a failure to eject and the symptom is that the fired case is trying to feed back in along with the next live round from the mag. I also have never seen this IF the pistol in question was being live fired...but I have seen it happen when someone was dicking around with hand-cycling live rounds slowly...were you by chance perhaps doing that or not?
Link Posted: 10/1/2004 7:58:22 PM EDT
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If that would of happened to mine, I would of sent it back to Kimber!  That kind of malfunction just doesn't sound real?  Puzzled am I.
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