Howdy all-
I've been working my way through resolving a number of failures I've been experiencing with a Kimber Custom II, and am down to the last one, but need some guidance. When I got it, it was said to have 1000+ rounds through it, so it's well past "break in." On my first trip out with it, I was experiencing intermittent premature slide locks, failures to return to battery, and it would drop the hammer but not strike the primer if the grip safety was not 100% depressed. (Mentioned all of these issues to Kimber, btw, and they declined to offer to address them because I was the 2nd owner...) Experienced these over the couse of 100 rounds of WWB. Ordered a modified slide stop which resolved the premature slide lock, a 18.5# Wolff spring which resolved the FTRB, and ripped the dang Scwartz safety junk clean out, which resolved the hammer dropping w/o firing issue. Took it out yesterday w/ a box of Blazer Brass. Ran approximately 30 rounds through flawlessly. I then, out curiosity, wanted to see if it would function w/o a mag in placed. Chambered a round from mag, ejected mag, and would fire, but would not eject, instead smashing empty case in ejection port. 2 attempts, same result with both. Reinserted mag, back to running normal.
At this point, my buddy wanted to try shooting, so I let him. He ran one mag flawlessly, then tried a 2nd, and the 3rd or 4th round had the same problem - case was smashed in ejection port. Cleared, reinserted mag, and he finished it off with no more problems. I then ran one more mag of Blazer and a mag of PDX1 HP's through with no problems.
Now, my buddy is a pretty scrawny guy, and has had problems with limp wristing other guns before. Is it reasonable that his limp wristing caused the problem, and that it just doesn't like to eject empties with no mag in place? Otherwise, I'm wondering if the problem relates to too heavy of a recoil spring, or possibly an extractor issue? It just seems weird that it had problems so infrequently if that were the case. What does everyone think?
Thanks in advance.
-Eric
I've been working my way through resolving a number of failures I've been experiencing with a Kimber Custom II, and am down to the last one, but need some guidance. When I got it, it was said to have 1000+ rounds through it, so it's well past "break in." On my first trip out with it, I was experiencing intermittent premature slide locks, failures to return to battery, and it would drop the hammer but not strike the primer if the grip safety was not 100% depressed. (Mentioned all of these issues to Kimber, btw, and they declined to offer to address them because I was the 2nd owner...) Experienced these over the couse of 100 rounds of WWB. Ordered a modified slide stop which resolved the premature slide lock, a 18.5# Wolff spring which resolved the FTRB, and ripped the dang Scwartz safety junk clean out, which resolved the hammer dropping w/o firing issue. Took it out yesterday w/ a box of Blazer Brass. Ran approximately 30 rounds through flawlessly. I then, out curiosity, wanted to see if it would function w/o a mag in placed. Chambered a round from mag, ejected mag, and would fire, but would not eject, instead smashing empty case in ejection port. 2 attempts, same result with both. Reinserted mag, back to running normal.
At this point, my buddy wanted to try shooting, so I let him. He ran one mag flawlessly, then tried a 2nd, and the 3rd or 4th round had the same problem - case was smashed in ejection port. Cleared, reinserted mag, and he finished it off with no more problems. I then ran one more mag of Blazer and a mag of PDX1 HP's through with no problems.
Now, my buddy is a pretty scrawny guy, and has had problems with limp wristing other guns before. Is it reasonable that his limp wristing caused the problem, and that it just doesn't like to eject empties with no mag in place? Otherwise, I'm wondering if the problem relates to too heavy of a recoil spring, or possibly an extractor issue? It just seems weird that it had problems so infrequently if that were the case. What does everyone think?
Thanks in advance.
-Eric
