kimber wont feed

[G60]

Contact Kimber!

This. FWIW, Hilton Yam of 10-8 performance is seeing a lot of Feeding/barrel setback problems in factory new Kimbers recently: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=1&theater

Only with 1911's do you see so many people giving a free pass to broken guns straight from the factory.

[Ranger20]

Shoot some 230 Gr.hard ball and see what it does... or send it back to Kimber don't polish the feed ramp you may void your warranty if you mess with it.. Call Kimber on Monday...

I had a Kimber Ultra RCP and it was flawless... but the prior owner broke it in... still he said it never failed and it didn't with me either... 1911's can be finiky especially the short ones...

[JTROKS]

How many mags do you have? Do they all do the same thing? Try a different brand mag and see if the same thing happens. Try the ball rounds and if the nose of the rounds hang up too then it will need a trip back to Kimber if you don't want to do some ramp work. The polishing may do the trick, but if ball rounds hang-up then a bit of changing the angle will be needed. This is all depending on how much metal is available and the barrel's throat relation with the frame's ramp.

[desertmedic]

Ive shot roughly 800 rounds through my ultra covert II and had only one FTF due to my wife limp wristing. My break in period was 500 rnds of 230 FMJ. ive read that the ultras like 230 gr even in HP's and thats what I feed it... Without a hitch. I do have a box of 165 gr HP's lying around and have been meaning to try them.

[Fishslayer]

The feed lip on the barrel chamber is sharp when it comes from the factory and if the lip itself has any burs or what not it will have a feed problem. My combat commander needed the barrel chamfered and polished due to the fact it was not feeding consistantly with different kinds of ammo. I do this to all my 1911's. Thats the point of having aftermarket gunsmithing work done to your firearm. To ensure reliability. I want my 1911 to shoot any ammo reliably because you never know what kind of situation you might be in. A professional aftermarket carry job on a 1911 will make that gun 10X better than when received from the factory.

Too bad the OP's weapon needs aftermarket gunsmithing work in order to FUNCTION.

OP: "My brand new Kimber won't feed ball ammo."

Kimber CS: "Shoot 500 rounds & call us back. It's only $169 at LAX."

[BlackDrop50]

Run the 400-600 rounds the manual specifies and let us know if it still has problems. Kimber will probably tell you the same thing. The price you pay for getting a cheaper accurate high end production 1911 with slightly overtolerance components.

My Kimber had FTF problems for the first 400-600 rounds. I heard the 3" Kimbers are finicky. I would be wary of even the Pro model Kimbers. My fullsize runs like a champ and I have more faith in it than my Glock under normal conditions.

[walmart_ar15]

Never understood why people accept this 400 - 600 round "break-in" period for a factory gun to be reliable? Any factory weapon should shoot and be reliable from the box. The so call "break-in" is really for the parts to settle-in in relation with one another to become smoother and provide more consistent accuracy, ie barrel locking lug with slide. We are only talking about ~0.001 inches of change. Besides, how does one shoot 400-600 rounds when the gun FTF consistently?

Have to shoot the gun loose to become "reliable" suggest they have issues with their manufacturing process.

[skyscraper]

Too bad the OP's weapon needs aftermarket gunsmithing work in order to FUNCTION.

OP: "My brand new Kimber won't feed ball ammo."

Kimber CS: "Shoot 500 rounds & call us back. It's only $169 at LAX."

Tell me about it. Go spend a couple hundred dollars, then we will take a look at it. Pass!

[IllTemperedCur]

Check the extractor tension. If it's too heavy, the extractor hook digs into the rim, locking up the round when it hits the feed ramp.

Disassemble the pistol and slide a round under the extractor hook. Should slide fairly easily into position while also being firm enough to hold the round in place through extractor tension alone.

If the tension isn't set up right, I'd bet that the extractor hook hasn't been contoured or polished correctly either, which will cause you further problems. My RIA GI had the same problems with the extractor, looked like it was a raw unit that had been installed without any fitting. It'd lock up the gun about every 5 rounds. Once I fixed the tension and profiling, all the FTF problems went away.