I had a Kimber in 7mm-08. It was a beautiful rifle, light weight, great balance, but it would not shoot. Everything that could possibley be wrong with a rifle was wrong with that one. The fore-end stock was warped and pressed on the left side of the barrel. The bedding was badly done and the action was so far off that the left bolt lug barely touched, while the right one ground off flakes of metal. I opend the barrel channel, rebeded the action and had a gunsmith true up the action and set the barrel back. After that it would shoot about 1.5 MOA with handloads. The major problem with Kimbers is quality control. Some are great shooters; others are a disaster. I would not buy an other one.
Kimber Question - Worth the money?
- Thread starter Mount Sweetness
- Start date
killswithkimber
Regular
- Location
- Jaffray BC
I currently own a kimber 8400 montana in 270WSM and for the price I believe you cant find a better rifle . Right out of the box mine shot 1'' groups like they were going out of style . Last week I developed a load for it that will send 5, 140g accubonds into one ragged little hole at 100 yards at a little over 3200fps. I have 4 buddies who all pack them and they all have had excellent results with them!I think there is lots of bad media that follows the kimber name
I had a Kimber and it shot great, but I had an issue with the safety and after Kimber telling me it was my problem and that they don't offer warranty in Canada i sold it and will never support a second rate company like that again even if they do shoot. I had to beg the smith I use to fix it because they refuse to work on Kimbers because of the poor machine quality of the parts.
