Originally Posted by
super_hunt54
My honest opinion of Kimber is, they should have stayed with making rifles. I've seen a few nice, well made, good shooting Kimber pistols but over all I hear some pretty horrible reports of their pistols. Many of them being just what the guy said. FTF and FTE.
A fellow camp member of mine is a certified NRA instructor and an armorer for S&W and has classes almost every weekend and has seen several Kimbers that were disasters. During one class he had two students with new Kimber 1911s. One would not fire after the first magazine was empty and another wouldn't fire right out of the box. His handgun of choice is a Les Baer custom 1911.