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Kimbers and Warranty Work

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I bought a new Kimber Pro Carry II in the last part of June this year. It would FTF with about a 1/4 to 3/8 of an inch of the round sticking out of the chamber. It did this with every magazine I tried.

I sent it back to Kimber at a cost of $83.00 for FED Ex over night. Kimber got the gun and polished the breachface, adjusted the extractor, reamed the chamber and polished it, installed a long ejector and adjusted the slide stop. I took the gun shooting last night and it ran without any problem with FMJs and Gold Dots and Hydrosoks. So I guess its fixed.

I called Kimber this morning and told them that it runs and I was unhappy about the cost to send a gun that should have run out of the box back to them and the loss of the gun for a month and a half.
The gentlemen I talked with stated that the gun should have not left the factory needing those things done to it and he appologized. He said that he would send me two top of the line magazines and several new recoil springs for my trouble. He said that Kimber would stand behind it products.

And that's where it stands on my gun.

I read on this form where another Kimber owner is having the same problem. I explained to the fellow at Kimber that if Kimber is letting subquality guns out of the factory, that with the instant information avaliable on the internet, it would effect their sales. He agreed and stated that he would pass on my concerns to the OC People at the factory.

Not a bad guy and so far Kimber has fixed it, but I figure when you pay money for a product it sould work. I don't guess that's the opinion of American Industry this day and time. So far all of my new Rock Island 1911s that are made in the Phillipines run right out of the box.

Jungle Work
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