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enjoy, my friends.


ETA all the good info, was removed. you can Google search "fluff & buff" and you'll get some hits.

mgood wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:

mgood wrote:New Kimber owner here.
Got my Ultra CDP II just a few weeks ago.

Any issues yet? How many rounds through it so far?

I've put, I think, 428 rounds through it.
I was having a failure to return to battery about three times every 100 rounds. I think it's smoothing up to about once in a hundred. Still way too much. We'll see what happens.
Kimber recommends a 400 round brake-in period. I'm just barely there. (Which I think it a little extreme. It should have the kinks worked out by around 150.)
I still love it. If it continues to have feed issues, I'll send it to Kimber to work on. But I have no doubt this will be my #1 carry gun for a long time.

They aren't kinks. It's extra metal where Kimber does a phenomenal job making sure the gun is TIGHT. it just needs to wear in.
if you followed Flint's Fluff n' Buff procedure, you shouldn't have any issues.

LarryH wrote:
That's why I quoted "Conventional wisdom".

agree 100%

I wanna say that I have heard of plenty of these problems way back in the day, but have never seen any with my own two eyes, or heard any reliable first hand accounts.
I like the Pro/Commander size as well. personal opinion for me.

LarryH wrote: but the Ultra would be the most problematic because of the redesign necessary to get all the moving parts to work properly in the 3" size.

on paper, yes, but that hasn't been my experience, nor the experience of a bunch of users (The Annoyed Man will tell ya) with the 3"
I believe that the 3" design has come a long way, and if you use a good recoil spring you should be squared away.

WEC wrote:Another thing I'd like to mention - not necessarily about Kimbers, but rather about 1911's in general - magazines make a huge difference, in my experience. A buddy of mine had some Shooting Star mags for his 1911. He told me they're more effective if he just threw the magazines at the perp than using them in his gun. Personally, I only use KimPro Tac-Mags. Others will swear by Wilson Combat. I haven't had first-hand experience with them, but I'm sure they must be great to develop such a reputation.

I had the exact same experience. I don't know what the deal was, but my Shooting Stars would cause a jam at least every 3rd runthrough.
I bought some Kimber KimPro Tac-Mags with the baseplate additions. I have not had one single failure since. It makes me wonder how many times a gun is blamed for a failure that has more to do with the magazine...

I truly believe if you go over the gun before ever going to the range (the aptly named "Fluff & Buff") you won't have any problems. search that term, and you should find some posts (FlintKnapper did a nice explanation) that detail this first time shooting pre-procedure. if nothing else, I'd take a brush to the feed ramp. excellent choice on the Eclipse.
Springfield has a similar model I came so close to buying.... whoooo!
ended up with a Pro CDP from a good friend. best gun ever....