Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles How many have had Kimbers with good barrels........................

7-08 and 300 WSM - both Montanas, both great shooters - did have some feeding issues on the 300, but got them sorted out.

DJ

300wsm 5 shot groups at 100 cover with a nickle.

Mine seems to do alright...........

My lord, there are some good shooting Kimbers out there after all!....grin

Light barrels don't shoot!

Yup!

300 wsm french walnut shoots almost everything 1.5" or less at 100yds. Several loads under and inch with 165 sierras or 150 ballistic tips both with IMR 4350 powders. Best 5 shot group so far is .68" at 100

84 Montana in .308 that was a good, but not great shooter. 1.5" or so with most factory ammo.

84 Montana in .243 that is a great shooter putting multiple factory loads well under an inch with some closer to .5".

Still awaiting judgment on the .260 I just got, but it's going to HCR and will be a shooter or I'll rebarrel it.

.308 out of the box was submoa, .260 groups were ugly but the components were fine, just crappy crown and bedding, both fixed and now submoa.

I have a Kimber Montana .300 WSM and it shoots great. Sub-MOA with 168 TSX.

Lou

Had no problem with any of my Kimbers - .308, 7mm-08, and 300 WSMs are all shooting well.

Like my Montana 7MM08!!!

i have an older kimber of oregon continental classic in 22 hornet that shoots like a house a fire...........

Both of mine shoot great.....308 montana and my new one. A 300 WSM in french walnut..I "wasted" my project funds money on it. It shoots factory Win. 180 Power points and Fed. 180 Accubonds under an inch. I put the Leupy B&C reticle on it and hits to 500 yards was mundane from the bench....


SC

My 300WSM shoots good .... normally the first two touching and the third spreading out to about an inch at 2 o'clock.

Add my name to the list! My Montana is a shooter....:GRIN:

I have an early 84 Classic (2 position safety) in 308 that is an exceptional shooter with everything I have tried. I also have a 270WSM Montana that was fussy with some loads at first and very inconsistent. After a re-crown job the rifle shoots very good 3/4-1 1/4" with any factory ammo I have played with, and is very consistent. The best part is sub 1/2" with RL-19 and 140 grain TBBC's at 3100 fps.

Well Guys,I'm jaded because mine had a bad barrel and a friend that bought a lot of them had bad barrels on some of his,and customer service treated me badly.Maybe it was the time frame of our rifles?? Anyway, sounds like alot of you are having good luck with yours and that's great. It is a neat platform. Good luck!!

It's a real Scientific test comparison but I think it's pretty clear from our results here that a lot more people on this forum feel they have good barrels from Kimber than have bad ones.

There are a couple things that I hope Kimber notices though. One is that a lot of guys are having to recrown their barrels to get the accuracy they want. IIRC the first person that tried this was our own Savage99. To me there isn't any excuse for these rifles to not have a perfect crown from the factory on each and every rifle. It's not that hard for them to get right, they should fix this issue immediately.
The second reoccuring issue is that a lot of shooters and needed to rebed their rifles. This is a little tougher issue. I know that with the Montana's they use a Mule action when they bed and so naturally manufacturing tolerances are going to end up with some rifle's not perfectly bedded. I think that individualy bedding each action might be tough to do in a production situation.

I think overall they are great rifles and I've had super good luck with them. I'd just like to see everyone have as good of luck as I've had.............................DJ

After all this time I am surprised that no one has figured out the fact that ALL of the Kimbers should have good barrels. If Kimber would get on the ball and upgrade their Quality Control to the level it should be for a $1000+ rifle we would not be having discussions like this on the forum. 'Nuff said.