DAVE RICHARDS
07-11-2004, 11:00
Whith most of the gfolks responding giving the thumbs up I bought the Kimber Ultra Carry. First off the workmanship of the gun seems top rate. It's one good looking gun. So I got it home and gave it a thorough cleaning. Then I lubed it up with Tetra grease and headed for the range. I took 100 rounds of
Winchester White Box and 100 rounds of Blazer. First off the gun absolutely shocked me in two area's. Accuracy and felt recoil. At 12 yards it put all the rounds into one hole on a B-27 target. I had always heard Kimbers were accurate but out of a little gun like this I was very impressed (and so were the folks around me). Next the recoil was not bad at all. Far less than my G-27. I did have two failures to extract. Both with the Winchester ammo. The failure's were the same each time. The round in the chamber was not extracted and the next round had moved forward trying to feed. BTW, I'm using Wilson 47 OXC mags. They've worked the best or me.
Next session 100 rounds of PMC and 50 rounds of Blazer. Had one failure to extract. Same problem as mentioned above. I am hoping it is just the advertised "break-in period" problems. Funny thing is it eats the Blazer all day and night with no problems. Also this is one of the newer models with the external extractors. Anyways I'm going to shoot a hundred more rounds through it today. Hope the failures to feed disappear. This will become my carry gun when the problems are worked out. It's that good.
p.s. yes I'm cleaning it after every range session.
Winchester White Box and 100 rounds of Blazer. First off the gun absolutely shocked me in two area's. Accuracy and felt recoil. At 12 yards it put all the rounds into one hole on a B-27 target. I had always heard Kimbers were accurate but out of a little gun like this I was very impressed (and so were the folks around me). Next the recoil was not bad at all. Far less than my G-27. I did have two failures to extract. Both with the Winchester ammo. The failure's were the same each time. The round in the chamber was not extracted and the next round had moved forward trying to feed. BTW, I'm using Wilson 47 OXC mags. They've worked the best or me.
Next session 100 rounds of PMC and 50 rounds of Blazer. Had one failure to extract. Same problem as mentioned above. I am hoping it is just the advertised "break-in period" problems. Funny thing is it eats the Blazer all day and night with no problems. Also this is one of the newer models with the external extractors. Anyways I'm going to shoot a hundred more rounds through it today. Hope the failures to feed disappear. This will become my carry gun when the problems are worked out. It's that good.
p.s. yes I'm cleaning it after every range session.