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Excaliber wrote:You can get similar double stack polymer grip current production guns from STI. Here's one example.

Albeit a far-far better gun. It's 3x's what i paid for the Kimmy. I'm really interested to see the price point of the new RRA poly, the Dark earth one is going to be sick! Something to look forward to saving for next year!


Back the thickness of the grip here are some comparisons:

vs. Para Hawg 9(same width as any other para double)


vs. standard 1911(the grips on it might be a tad wider then normal)


vs. Taurus PT92


vs. Taurus PT809



Here is what the frame looks like

The Annoyed Man wrote:So Kevin, how fat is this thing in the hand compared to M&P, XD, XDm, and Glock .45s?

I have no Idea, Never held one of those. Or any other type double stack .45. But I have double stacked Para Ordnance's and I will say the grip width of the Kimber is thinner than the para's. Since the Kimber does not have grip panals, It be like if you took the thin grips off a double stacked para. Which in turn makes the "total" width of the Kimber grip more narrow than a standard 1911 with regular grips(more full bodied of course).

psijac wrote:Kimberly just won't give up on the external extractor thing

this gun is "old" They gave it up years back, although not sure why they couldn't get any where with it? S&W and Sig do just fine with their externals on their 1911's.

AndyC wrote:show the groups :)

To you guys they probably suck being only 7 yards. It shot more "precise" than "accurate" but I don't claim to be a good shot. So its probably my lack of accuracy learning the sights. let me snap some photos of the targets!

Between the two there are 40 rounds including some fliers.

G26ster wrote:Nice pistol. It would be nice if you would re-size your photos before posting. It would much easier to see the whole image. These images are 2,048 × 1,536. Thanks.

Is that better? I usually use my cell phone camera, this is my first point and shoot and I'm not used to have like a billion megapixels

This thing is as out there as it get for a 1911, Plastic frame, double stacked, external extractor, and bull barrel. If only it had Para's LDA! haha. Took it out put 50 rounds through it. Shot perfect and made tight groups. Kimber fanboys hate the thing and it has a bad rep. But a lot of the bad review were here-say and most of the goods one were people that actually have one. Cabelas has a 30 day "warranty" on their used guns, so I said what the heck! I'm a 1911 guy, but certainly not a Kimber boy.