Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Kimber Classic Select with AAA french walnut..

Kimber wood is all over the place, their grading doesn't mean much. Kimber Classic select with the so called French walnut are all designated A-Grade and can vary from fencepost plain to really nice. The Superamerica is designated AAA grade Claro Walnut and can vary in my opinion from semi fancy to AAA. When ordering a gun it`s always a surprise what quality of wood will be on the gun. Some of the base model Classics have surprisingly nice wood on occasion in fact have seen some that had better wood than some Superamericas. Kimber like Cooper has used up a lot of the nicer wood they had stockpiled and the grade of wood they are using is slipping while the grade designation/description they are using has stayed the same.

Superamerica 7-08

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Ok - that's fuggin nice!

That's certainly a beauty

It adds the small cheekpiece which ought to be on all Kimbers, so that the comb doesn't bite under recoil. Also, they have wrap-around checkering on the forend.

Classic Select 257 Roberts, so assume grade A...

My 257 Roberts. Not a safe queen. Bought used. No papers, not sure the grade.

How do you guys like these rifles? I'm thinking about getting one. Most talk on here is about the Montana.

So far the .257 seems to shoot okay. In contrast to the Montana, which I finally gave up & rebarreled.

Some good looking wood!, It would cost 2k+ to make those stocks. Makes that gun a good buy

Looks like grade 'SEXY' to me

My 257 is my favorite rifle. Also have a 308. Both shoot great. Would buy another in a heartbeat. Next rifle I buy will be an 84l to rebarrel to 7x57. That will be a while though. These 84m's just feel right to me.

Obviously, this is a gorgeous piece of wood...



However, I would be content with a stock like this with the strong grain lines. Especially given that it is laid out with the grain running thru the grip. More of a subtle, understated "class".



Just my dos colones...
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Damn nice looking rifles. You guys are going to cost me $ if I keep looking at this thread.

Browsing on GB just now. This always gets me in trouble...
If I didn't have the wife's 308 I would be all over this one.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=520176904
Nice wood in a great caliber.

Sure your not mistaking the fiddleback pattern in the superamerica for grain lines which are laid out pretty much ideally, the same way the grain lines flow through the wrist/pistol grip in the classic select you pictured.

No confusion. And no concern with the grain lay out in the Super. Simply pointing out that I would be just as content with the less fancy piece of wood as I would the more fancy. As another poster mentioned above, the fancier piece is starting to border on "Is this too nice to take out into the woods and risk getting it scuffed up ?"

I thought I would throw my 06 on the pile too. CP.

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LOL... outside of going to the range and shooting it a couple times with the scope pictured shortly after I bought it, it has sat in the safe without a scope. Never did buy a scope for it, afraid to take it to the range for fear of putting a mark on it. It's useless, I look at it once in a while and threaten to sell it....

Plain basic Kimber Classic .270

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Geez, you guys won't hunt with those??? The wife's gets used although not very hard. Been to Argentina twice and Africa once. If I'm busting brush I carry a synthetic and although I like nice wood (who doesn't) there are no safe queens.
Go out and use 'em. They really aren't that hard to refinish.