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I've read that it's pretty easy to remove a kimber bolt handle. Mine is a 2015 Kimber Montana 84L. I cannot for the life of me remove the bolt handle. I'm using a leather belt and a vice grips to try to turn it counter clockwise. The leather is a little slippery but the vice grips do have a fairly strong grasp. I thought maybe there is red locktite on there, so I heated it up with a heat gun to over 450 (I assume--my heat laser thing won't tell me on the bolt handle for some reason). It still won't budge. I did burn my carpet in the process so that was brilliant of me. Anyway this is very frustrating so any tips would be appreciated.

I got it. I did two things differently. I grabbed the thick part of the knob which the vice grips grabbed much more solidly. I also got the bolt knob hotter than before. Hot enough that it burned when I touched it. Probably wasn't hot enough before. I do think it had red locktite on it because I had tried grabbing the thick part before with no luck. I also had to grab it in a way that allowed me more leverage.