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The Forbe's overall length is 43.5" not 41.5". The 24b action is the same length as a 700 short action and I believe the same as the Kimber short action.

Yes all Kimbers suck....please people sell them!!!

Need the price to lower so I can get a 30-06 84L on the cheap

I bought mine NIB last summer and it has zero issues. Worked fine with 140BTs on four deer this year.

I figured that out, but on the Forbes site, it had a 30-06 listed at 41.5. I knew it didn't make sense, but there it was.

A couple weeks ago I was experimenting with my shooting technique and the 7-08 Montucky. When I first got the Kimber this past August I found it quite a bit harder to shoot than the T3 Finnish Tikklers I was using before. Found that I needed to hold the forearm on the Kimber with a firm grip in order to get decent groups and hit the 8" gong at 500y.

Shot with a firm hold and also loosey-goosey to see what would happen. Firm hold gave me good groups, loosey-goosey moved the impact up and to the left. My Tikklers shot fine loosey-goosey but the Kimber needs a firm hold. I'm positive a better shooter could do better than me, and I didn't wait for the barrel to cool completely. Just my own little experiment.

I did do some tweaks to the rifle... loc-tite to the firing pin screw, shortened front Talley screw (just for good measure), shortened front action screw (just for good measure), sanded edges of mag box, and made sure the box wasn't binding (it wasn't). The only thing that made any differences was knocking the edges off the mag box lips... now it feeds 100%. Before that it wasn't. All the other stuff made no diff, but loc-tite is a must. Have not bedded the lug.

Jason

Kimber 7-08 at 500y on a different day. 5-shots on 8.5" steel hub coupler. There was a slight right-to-left wind. Three shots were pretty close, with one down below. Don't know what happened with the far right impact... probably poor trigger control. Either way, good enough for me

With good set-up I can spot my shots at 500y. Paint and bullet splatter shows well through the 6x.

Well I just picked up Kimber no.2 (.223 Montana)

Box was binding, trigger was 4 lbs. Got the trigger adjusted, box fixed. Will bed it in the am.

Been wanting one of these for a year or so.

Congrats on the new rifle Cal!

Think it's time to place an order myself.

I tell you what.

I sure miss DJTex and his posts with his kids and his Montana.

Another good campfire guy gone...

Yep. I miss him too, and a lot of others.

What happened?

2nd that Marty

Get a hold of Jamie, price I told you is about as good as you'll find I believe.

Going down to cave in a little bit to mix up some bedding compound and crossing my fingers yet again for a good release and a job well done.

Well, its looks like Kimber still generates a lot of "talk", with 192 posts and 9427 views. Overall, a highly valued player in the retail world. Wonder what they had on display at the SHOT Show?

I have four. A Mod 82 in .22 mag, and two 84Ms in .260, and one 7mm08. I only have three Sakos.

Woops, just took a look in the safe and found another 84M in .308.

KIMBER 84M Adirondack:

http://www.americanhunter.org/blogs/kimber-adirondack

That's pretty neat! Perfect for New England!

Well, at least they screwed it up with a really ugly stock and a big ole ugly scope (3-9 no doubt, perfect for "brush" hunting).

They apparently think a lot of Bubba's live upstate.

Also not sure how giving a smith $35 to cut and crown the regular Montana makes the ADK different, except uglier.

Kimber continues to expand its NASCAR line of rifles... amazing.

So buy a regular Montana for $900 or so cheaper and cut a couple inches off the barrel? Maybe instead of selling a new rifle, they should just have an Adirondack package for a regular Montana where they include a hacksaw blade and $80 muzzle crowning tool.

I haven't seen where anything they've come out with since the Montana is any better.

Not my cup of tea.