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Yesterday I headed up to Angeles Range with a buddy of mine to run some rounds through my Kimber Eclipse Pro II. Man, does this thing have issues.
Here's the background on it:
I inherited this pistol from my Mom's husband when he died late last year. He had previously shown it to me and told me that when he bought it new it didn't run right at all. He sent it back to Kimber and they did some work on it. That was the last discussion I had with him regarding the pistol.
Yesterday was the first chance I've had to go shoot it, and here's what I found:
Multiple failures to extract. It did this three or four times in a hundred rounds. The slide would lock back and the empty casing would be hanging halfway out of the chamber.
Also, when it does extract properly it flings the focking brass straight back into your face.
I wasn't using funky reloads or JHPs or anything, either. Just green-box Remington UMC ball ammo.
It would also occasionally lock back when there were still rounds in the magazine. Happened with a couple different mags, 2 Kimbers and one Wilson Combat.
More bothersome though is the next problem: You can't drop the slide by racking it. The notch in the slide that catches the slide-stop is cut too long and won't drop the slide-stop when you rack it backward. Here's a picture, and a video demonstrating this:
Also note my awesome Misfits Fiend Club shirt.
This slide-stop issue is not something my Mom's husband would have ignored, and the only possible explanation I can think of is that he just never noticed it. Perhaps he was in the habit of dropping the slide by pressing on the stop, I'm not sure. He was an avid firearm collector, and this is definitely not something that he would have let slide, so to speak.
Seeing as how the pistol is definitely not new, do I have any chance of getting Kimber to fix these things? The slide-stop thing especially is unacceptable on a $1000 firearm. How could it possibly leave the factory this way?
--B
Here's the background on it:
I inherited this pistol from my Mom's husband when he died late last year. He had previously shown it to me and told me that when he bought it new it didn't run right at all. He sent it back to Kimber and they did some work on it. That was the last discussion I had with him regarding the pistol.
Yesterday was the first chance I've had to go shoot it, and here's what I found:
Multiple failures to extract. It did this three or four times in a hundred rounds. The slide would lock back and the empty casing would be hanging halfway out of the chamber.
Also, when it does extract properly it flings the focking brass straight back into your face.
I wasn't using funky reloads or JHPs or anything, either. Just green-box Remington UMC ball ammo.
It would also occasionally lock back when there were still rounds in the magazine. Happened with a couple different mags, 2 Kimbers and one Wilson Combat.
More bothersome though is the next problem: You can't drop the slide by racking it. The notch in the slide that catches the slide-stop is cut too long and won't drop the slide-stop when you rack it backward. Here's a picture, and a video demonstrating this:
Also note my awesome Misfits Fiend Club shirt.
This slide-stop issue is not something my Mom's husband would have ignored, and the only possible explanation I can think of is that he just never noticed it. Perhaps he was in the habit of dropping the slide by pressing on the stop, I'm not sure. He was an avid firearm collector, and this is definitely not something that he would have let slide, so to speak.
Seeing as how the pistol is definitely not new, do I have any chance of getting Kimber to fix these things? The slide-stop thing especially is unacceptable on a $1000 firearm. How could it possibly leave the factory this way?
--B
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