12/1/2020 8:29:53 PM
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Section 8: Handguns Subject: 6” Kimber 45 Msg# 1105584
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You're a patient man, Craig. That thumb safety nonsense would have irritated me no end and having to modify a supposedly "Target" trigger like that seems a non-starter!
Looks like you ended up with a good one, though. Stu |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Thanks Stu, It is my 3rd 6” 1911, and it is a nice one too. Unfortunately it didn’t start out too nice. The thumb safety, as it arrived, was almost unusable. The casting (assuming it was MIM) was severely out of shape. It looked bent. It barely engaged the notch in the slide. See the pictures. It was wearing the factory stocks at that point. Kimber sent me another safety when I told them that I had fit several of them in the past. But it was another sub par part. I bought and fitted a Wilson Combat safety and it has been flawless. The trigger pull was pretty high for a “Target” gun, which is the model designation. It was gritty and was over 6 1/2 lbs. I polished the trigger bow, mating surfaces of the disconnector and installed a Cylinder and Slide “light” sear spring. It is very clean and crisp and breaks at 3.5 lbs! CraigImage below from Craig AA - Image Title: Bad Kimber safety 1 Image below from Craig AA - Image Title: Kimber 1 Image Info: Picture of a picture from my laptop screen. |