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At the range my K6S failed to fire! Yes it was loaded!
Got five more clicks. Looked through the firing pin holel. Didn’t see the firing pin.
Kimber fixed and returned quickly. Now I check the firing before shooting. Unable to carry because of loss of confidence.
FYI!

....the # of people "unable to carry because of loss of confidence" in Kimbers is staggering.....those that like them, love them, I guess that's like most manufacturers however. My Kimber loss of confidence has been in their rifles.....absolutely beautiful pieces of martial artistry, but their accuracy was a crap shoot (pun intended). Glad you discovered your Kimber-malady in a non-life-threatening situation.

Been there, done that, Norm. Sold all my Kimbers for that reason years ago.

PS How have you been? You haven’t been a regular here for many years. Good to see you back.

PPS Buy a Glock, learn to shoot it well, and rest assured.

What does that mean?

Luckily there is an easy fix. It comes from Smith & Wesson.

...hummm...what does one do if one is shooting a G34 and has the case head blow out.... What does one do if it then happens on a G40 and G20 on the same day with FACTORY AMMO..... And you stand there and see it happen with a G23, G20 and two G19s several of which were shooting FACTORY ammo.

I must be crazy as all the above happened to me with Glocks and I still carry a G19 as my out of state LEOSA carry gun and the same G40 that blew up as a my anti car-jacking gun...

...and yet the two Kimbers I have, that have been shot a lot more, have never failed me.

If one lost confidence in every mechanical object that broke, it would get very expensive.

Bob

When the bad guy reaches in the driver's window and you blow up a G40 in his face I bet he gives it up.

Regarding the K6S, the trivia running around my head that I can't quite corral is that Kimber redesigned the firing pin and bushing. Dry-firing got most of the blame.

At least it didn't cost much.

Limp wristing! A tighter grip solves all Glock problems!

Too soon.

And I was thinking about buying a K6s... I have a j frame. And a glock 43, but really liked tha looks of the Kimber.

You saw all that in one day? 7 (all BS aside, normally reliable guns) had major failures?

WTF is an anti car-jacking gun? If I had to have such a thing I'd [bleep] move

Ithaca Auto & Burglar

Designed as an anti highway robbery gun, back in the days before the creation of the highway patrol.

Something to said about the older S&W and Colt revolvers....

I fully understand loss of confidence, and to the point of not ever returning, I bought a custom Colt 1911 loaded with titanium race gun parts, [read, lighter and faster, but soft] I hit the slide release one day and BOOM!, the hammer followed the slide home, I took that thing to my 'Smith, had him load it with Ed Brown guts and set everything to factory spec and sold it, I really loved, and wanted to keep that pistol.

...should have been a little clearer...

Ther two 19s and the 34 were back in the late 1990s on three separate days. I was shooting the 34 when it blew a web and the two 19s were a short time apart in the hands of co-workers I was giving lessons to. One with factory rounds and one with reloads.

The 23 was with Winchester Whitebox factory ammo in 2013 in the hands of a student standing in front of me...same with the 21 but that was a reload a few weeks later.

The 40 and 20 were both the same day. Same box of ammo but I had already fired several boxes of the same ammo on previous occasions...this was posted here on the CF when it happened.

I bought the G40 because of the Underwood Xtreme Penetrator rounds. Is more compact and to me easier to shoot than one of the rifle caliber pistols.... It sits in a case under the center armrest very discretely...

I'm getting to know some of that GOOD right now!