Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Kimber of Oregon - photo and link dump

Been meaning to do this for some time now to compile some Kimber of Oregon information in one place. I'll be posting up some KoO pics gathered from the web and I'm posting in the Hunting Rifles sub-forum as that's what these were all about. My intent here is to welcome any discussion, links, or references, good, or bad if you must, of the old Kimber of Oregon (pre-1991) or Kimber of America (1994-1996) including the sporterized Mausers. I'm linking to this thread on the main page 'reference' thread.

This is not for discussion of Kimber Manufacturing Co, Yonkers NY - 1996 onward. While the auto pistols were being prototyped in '95 I don't think they're of the right vintage for this. No Daewoos, no Montanas, no 84 30-06s, no Costa Rican woodshops...

I'll be including links to past 24hourcampfire.com threads too as time allows. If any heartache develops, please GFY.

For starters, here's mine, it's a Model 89 BGR 270 Winchester made in later '90. Has the Colton barrel stamp, my hometown, which the earliest 89s did not, they were stamped Clackamas as were all previous rifles before, IIRC summer 1990. It's very smooth operating, although I've not tamed it with handloads yet. I purchased it from a lying Texan SOB on Gunbroker who did not divulge a break in the stock... But, it is what it is and cost me about what they went for back in the day. I was only affiliated with the company as a lowly hourly employee during periods in '88-'91 and '94-'95. At times I worked directly with Greg and Jack Warne and developed a lot of respect for Jack. It was a rockn' good time of my life which I don't intend to divulge much about here, LOL.

When things KoO get brought up here on the Fire, I feel a desire to say a few things: I did not work on prototypes, I was not in the executive loop, I am not a Kimber of Oregon expert, I met but did not really know Dan Cooper, I did not know anyone that tested customer returned rifles prior to late Summer 1988, we in the woodshop did party A LOT, I mean A LOT, it was [bleep]'d but at times the Company had no choice (financially) but to ship rifles that we knew were not right, many KoO rifles were freaking awesome, we went thru a lot of Claro - over 500 blanks a week, the first Mod 89 BGR stocks that went out were fat phugging clubs shaped by one of the ol'timers of the company, I was freaking awesome at machine sanding, laminated 84 Varmint stocks caused our noses to bleed, the most accurate centerfire rifles I've ever shot were Remington 700s, the most accurate rimfire I ever shot was a Kimber of Oregon 82, Looks Feel Function and Accuracy were all top priorities, these were the finest Production rifles of the time, if it doesn't have a shadowline cheekpiece it ain't a Super... Always good to clear the air. Hope you got high speed!

From TX...

Hogged out.

Gooped up.

Liv'n with it.

Now that I got my pics out of the way....


For what it's worth, put the Gogglefu to work and here's a smathering of posts, not much edited for content, nor value, but dropped a few out of the results that were surely Yonkers related. Most (about the first 100 ) are from a Google search "site:24hourcampfire.com Kimber of Oregon" but the last several at the bottom resulted from Google "site:24hourcampfire.com Kimber of Oregon 89 BGR" as I knew a few of those specific to the 89 BGR hadn't shown up.... There are more too. Happy hunting, shooting, shopping, gunsmithing, or cursing as the case may be.

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...ntthread/Board/39/main/48529/type/thread

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...tthread/Board/34/main/245370/type/thread

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/3485599/Re_Kimber_of_Oregon_BGR_89_rif

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...tthread/Board/27/main/144522/type/thread

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...tthread/Board/27/main/225717/type/thread

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...30207/all/FS_KIMBER_of_Oregon_SSV_in_223

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/7538412/Looking_for_Kimber_of_Oregon_M

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/6964048/FS_Kimber_of_Oregon_S_model_22

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...ntthread/Board/3/main/316537/type/thread

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...tthread/Board/34/main/332145/type/thread

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/9319924/Re_A_Kimber_of_Oregon_Model_89

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/5573310/Kimber_of_Oregon_84_info_reque

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/6753398/2

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/6848982/Kimber_of_Oregon

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...tthread/Board/29/main/276276/type/thread

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/7541612/Re_Kimber_Oregon_rifles_221_Fi

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/9861152/LH_Kimber_of_Oregon_at_Cabela'

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/3885305/A_Kimber_84

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...ntthread/Board/3/main/274872/type/thread

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/9951806/Re:_Kimber_of_Oregon_Mdl_82_22

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/9394749/WTS_Kimber_of_Oregon_BGR_89_Su

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/8895030/Re_Kimber_of_Oregon_Model_82_2

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/3003160/Anybody_know_anything_about_th

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/8965706/WTB_22rf_KIMBER_OF_OREGON_MAGA

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/8957528/Re_WTS_Kimber_of_Oregon_Model_

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...01518/all/FS_Kimber_of_Oregon_89_BGR_Sup

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/7749962/Kimber_of_Oregon_Model_82_22_H

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/5547556/Kimber_of_Oregon_84_help_reque

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/3867982/Re_Kimber_of_Oregon_300_H_amp_

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/4235554/Re_Kimber_of_Oregon_M82_22LR

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/2990560/1

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...53917/all/Picture_of_a_Kimber_of_Oregon_

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/7111020/Re_Kimber_Gustaf_M96

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/3535233/1

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/8277260/WTB_kimber_22_magnum_rifle

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...31202/all/Anybody_know_what_twist_The_Or

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...tthread/Board/39/main/113049/type/thread

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...75100/all/What_is_your_most_rare_LH_rifl

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/5397889/Re_Kimber_6_5x55

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/5450180/Price_check_Kimber_6x45mm

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/7213435/Price_check_on_Kimber_82_22_Ho

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth.../3959027/all/M96_Kimber_Sporter_Problems

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...tthread/Board/29/main/272064/type/thread

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...04790/all/Finally_got_the_beautiful_old_

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/3985272/Re_Late_model_Kimber_K_22_Clas

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1294381/PRICE_CHECK_KIMBER_82M

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/10270690/Re:_WTB-Oregon_Kimber_in_.300_

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1250159

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/5521302/1

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...28405/all/Kimber_modified_Swedes_Anyone_

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/4155141/Re_KIMBER_old_vs_new

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/7082807/Kimber_82_magazines_10_and_4_s

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...13259/all/Decision_time_for_a_LH_Kimber_

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/8612825/Gunshow_Kimber_K22_Hunter

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/6552746/1

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/5501518/FS_Kimber_of_Oregon_89_BGR_30_

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...41994/all/I_love_my_Kimber_Mod_89_Super_

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/7031731/Re_How_good_is_a_Kimber_89_BGR

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/9271135/Re_WTB_1989_Oct_Guns_Magazine_

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/6104487/Looking_for_a_Stock_for_a_Kimb

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...s/6543315/Re_Another_good_deal_Kimber_89

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth.../10382528/Which_factory_rifle_has_the_mo

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/6048132/Re_Stock_shaping_files

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/5345147/Re:_Kimber_Pics_Please.......!

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/2516223/all/gas_handling_Kimber_84

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/10304876/all/What_rifle_you_taking

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/168195/Re:_IS_THERE_A_375_H&H

I make no claim to the following pics, they were in cyberspace and presented only for S&Gs and will remain as long as my hosting service and the the other powers at be allow. There are some rare or one-off specially produced rifles included.

Making 75 of these stocks in a shift will have ya wishing you ate your Wheaties!

Brownell's