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I bought a new camp guard 10 yesterday, took it home, disassembled it, cleaned out factory oil, lubricated it well with remoil, then took her out to shoot.
I have never been interested in Kimbers but a 10mm 1911 that looks as pretty as this one was hard to pass up.
While I had it at home I noticed the slide kind of had a hitch when the slide stop was near the notch in the slide. I was also immediately suspicious of the tiny bump on the follower of the magazine that is supposedly a Kimber feature. But I figured at the slide velocities approaching the speed of light that my 10mm 180gr fmj load is known for, they'd be non issues. Damn was I wrong.
Every first round and every last round was a failure to feed where the round wedged itself between the top of the chamber and the magazine. I'd repeatedly have to smack the rear of the slide to get it to seat, sometimes quite forcefully.
Every other round with the magazine partially loaded caused this same kind of FTF. The pistol also had the habit of locking open about once per magazine though the magazine wasn't spent.
So it's frustrating that I purchased a Kimber and it needs to go right back to the other side of the country for repairs.
Anyone have suggestions or other DoA Kimber issues?
I've read that these guns might be ammo picky but I tried factory stuff as well as my hand loads that both my S&W 1006 and Sig P220 eat up all day long.
I have never been interested in Kimbers but a 10mm 1911 that looks as pretty as this one was hard to pass up.
While I had it at home I noticed the slide kind of had a hitch when the slide stop was near the notch in the slide. I was also immediately suspicious of the tiny bump on the follower of the magazine that is supposedly a Kimber feature. But I figured at the slide velocities approaching the speed of light that my 10mm 180gr fmj load is known for, they'd be non issues. Damn was I wrong.
Every first round and every last round was a failure to feed where the round wedged itself between the top of the chamber and the magazine. I'd repeatedly have to smack the rear of the slide to get it to seat, sometimes quite forcefully.
Every other round with the magazine partially loaded caused this same kind of FTF. The pistol also had the habit of locking open about once per magazine though the magazine wasn't spent.
So it's frustrating that I purchased a Kimber and it needs to go right back to the other side of the country for repairs.
Anyone have suggestions or other DoA Kimber issues?
I've read that these guns might be ammo picky but I tried factory stuff as well as my hand loads that both my S&W 1006 and Sig P220 eat up all day long.