Nice Kimber. Love the colors. I did see one in the same color scheme, but is was north of 500, near the 1k range.While I have 9x23, .38 Super & .38 Special in full size 1911s - I oddly have never come across a full size that seemed a good buy at the time.
Interestingly, a Kimber is what turned me on to two aspects of 1911 ownership that I had seemed to be eschewing; 9mm and *Commander* platform.
In this Kimber 9mm, I truly could not be happier.
I would suggest anyone ever seeing one used at a price should get it if the features appeal more than Kimber current offering in the Commander style. Though, the prices seemed to have leveled immediately without a drop.
Supremely accurate, stone-axe reliable and never met a round it didn't like.
Todd.
It really all comes down to springs matching your load range combined with your own expectations.
When I switched my Kimber LW 9mm over to .38 Super, it was basically with the intent to handload ammo and push 124-125gr bullets into the 1400+ fps range. Thought was for possible use on whitetail deer at crossbow ranges, but I decided not to. I switched to a 16lb recoil spring from the factory 12lb and it doesn't beat the gun as badly. I run an 18lb spring in it if I'm shooting max loads, which is pretty often.
bannockburn,
I know that feeling all to well my friend. I had a blued Colt Combat Commander in .38 Super set up to run perfectly with a Colt 9mm. barrel. Had to sell it to pay off another gun I had bought. Took me quite a few years to get around to finding another Colt in .38 Super to replace it but I finally did and I'm more than pleased with how nice it is !I foolishly sold this Kimber 9MM, gold bead front sight and all. *Sigh*
I almost sold mine. The only thing saved it was that I would not budge a single dollar off MSRP and it actually got down to only a few dollars too.
I've got two Kimbers in 9mm. This one which is a fantastic shooter:
Kimber Stainless II 9mm
And this one. It remains new in the box unfired condition. Ok, I'll try to keep this short but I bought it new when they first hit the market late in 2006 from a large Kimber Master Dealer in South Texas. He mentioned that Kimber sent it to him by mistake and wanted it back but he refused. He said its the first Ultra Aegis II made. I did call Kimber Customer Service a few years ago and had them date it for me. After I gave CS guy the serial number he paused then ask me to hold on the line a few minutes. He came back on and told me that it was a very interesting Kimber due to the records indicating it was the first one produced. He then ask me how I came about owning it which I related to him who and where I bought it from. He mentioned that the first run on these had the KUFA which meant K=Kimber U=Ultra frame F=9mm A=Aegis model.
Kimber Ultra Aegis II Serial Number KUFA001
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An internet thread where people are speaking well of Kimbers??? Seriously though, I've had a few Kimbers in 38 Super and 9MM over the last 20 years or so. Contrary to most of what I've read on the internet, they were all excellent, reliable pistols. Wish I could say the same for some other manufactuer's 9MM 1911s.
