Sergei Mosin
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Got the itch for a new 1911. Looking around, I found the two-tone Kimber Custom II on sale for $700, which is pretty reasonable for that model. It's a pretty sharp-looking gun and I have some ancestral connections with Yonkers - it would be pretty cool (to me) to have a 1911 marked YONKERS NY. And it seems to offer a lot of features for the money. My tastes generally run toward simpler 1911s, but one dolled-up model wouldn't hurt anything...
Against that are all the horror stories I've heard about their QC and CS, plus that silly Swartz firing pin block. So tell me - at $700, is the Custom II a good value that'll shoot as good as it looks, or is the Kimber all show and no go?
Against that are all the horror stories I've heard about their QC and CS, plus that silly Swartz firing pin block. So tell me - at $700, is the Custom II a good value that'll shoot as good as it looks, or is the Kimber all show and no go?