First 1911 Experience

[gmckinl]

Yesterday, my range card had free rental and ammo of my choice. So after putting 100 rounds through my G30, I selected a Kimber Custom Stainless. The 50 rounds of range ammo was not marked. I had some ten failures to extract the fired case from the chamber. I was so bummed.

I've rented a G30 there a couple of times before buying mine, and their pig-sty dirty G30 didn't give me any problems. The Kimber didn't look all that dirty, though the RO said they would give it a cleaning after I told him about how it performed.

What do you guys guess the real root cause would be? I'm curious as I still want a 1911 someday soon if only because you just have to have at least one :)

My jam clearing skills were sorely lacking (slow and clumsy) after shooting GLOCKs so much lately.

Made me want to hug my G30 and pet its fat little Tennifer head. :cheers:

[Short Cut]

Probably something as simple as the extractor not having enough tension. It's neat to be able to rent different handguns before buying, but I've shot several that would make me think that a particular brand was crap when in fact the gun just wasn't maintained. The four Kimbers I own function as they should so I wouldn't try to read too much into this one particular range rental experience.

When you weren't clearing malfunctions how did you like it otherwise; ie trigger, accuracy, ergonomics?

[Usingmyrights]

Kimber used an external extractor for awhile that caused all kinds of trouble. That may have been it.

[Butcher]

they might be loading their own *****ty ammo that was too slow to cycle the gun

also range guns are beat to hell. they may look clean on the outside, but most of the time theyre just wiped down with a cloth to give the appearance of cleanliness when you're lookin at it through the glass case.

i've fired range rental 1911's a bunch, and my friends' properly-maintained 1911's even more... guess which ones never gave me any problems? i expect the same from my new kimber on the way

[gmckinl]

Originally posted by Short Cut
When you weren't clearing malfunctions how did you like it otherwise; ie trigger, accuracy, ergonomics?

Trigger was great, accuracy was so-so - grouped about like my G30 but all rounds quite high on target, ergo was good. Wierd though, recoil while not bad at all, felt like more than the G30.

I still shoot best w/ my S&W M19. Keeper group was 11 rds 357 Mag, 125 gr into 1 5/8" at 35 yards.