Steve, sorry about your back pain and I hope you get better. When I got my gun I thought it was about the best looking rife that I had ever seen and I didn't learn of the different problems until years later. I was not too far out of college and money was pretty tight then and had I known of those problems when I bought it I would have been SICK. Today the gun mostly sits in the safe as I have replaced it with a custom .280. I had both rifles out last fall because I hadn't shot the Kimber in a few years and it turned in a perfect 3/4" group 2 1/2" above bull @ 100 yrd. One other thing. I pulled the barrled action out of the stock to adjust the trigger years ago and I was shocked. The inletting looked like it had been done by a blind man with a hatchet.
Regards, John.
