New to me Kimber 1911 - 01/07/20
Anyone familiar with the Kimber Custom Defender II? From what I've gathered so far it may be a small production distributor special from 2001. The seller and a couple of Internet sites say there were about 290 produced.
Picked one up at a gun show over the weekend. It's not a CDP. It's a 5" .45 ACP, stainless steel slide, black anodized oxide finished stainless steel frame, full length guide rod, single side safety, long aluminum trigger, beavertail grip safety, flat metal mainspring housing, typical Kimber odds and ends.
It's seen a little use and abuse, small signs of finish wear on blackened frame, some previous user added a custom idiot mark, but it was only $550. It came with one Kimber mag, I picked up a couple of cheap surplus mags and couple of boxes ammo while at the show (didn't have any .45 stuff with me), and stopped at an indoor range on my way home. 100 rounds of Winchester fmj and Federal HST hollowpoints later I'm pretty happy. Function was 100% with all three mags, no feed or extraction issues at all. Accuracy looks like it will be very good, but was really trying to check function and was rotating thru the mags as fast as I could load them. I know it was only 100 rds, but it's a good start.
Picked one up at a gun show over the weekend. It's not a CDP. It's a 5" .45 ACP, stainless steel slide, black anodized oxide finished stainless steel frame, full length guide rod, single side safety, long aluminum trigger, beavertail grip safety, flat metal mainspring housing, typical Kimber odds and ends.
It's seen a little use and abuse, small signs of finish wear on blackened frame, some previous user added a custom idiot mark, but it was only $550. It came with one Kimber mag, I picked up a couple of cheap surplus mags and couple of boxes ammo while at the show (didn't have any .45 stuff with me), and stopped at an indoor range on my way home. 100 rounds of Winchester fmj and Federal HST hollowpoints later I'm pretty happy. Function was 100% with all three mags, no feed or extraction issues at all. Accuracy looks like it will be very good, but was really trying to check function and was rotating thru the mags as fast as I could load them. I know it was only 100 rds, but it's a good start.