Updated!
Eager to test out the newly installed recoil spring assembly, Mad Oilman loaded his range bag before heading to the office. Workday concluded, it's off to Top Gun to perform the Kimber experiment. Will the spring replacement make this pistol behave properly? Range time and targets purchased, Mad Oilman dons eyes and ears and heads to the firing line. Two magazines loeaded and target sent to 5 yard distance, it's time to start this experiment.
Kimber clip in. Release the slide. Guess what? Failure to feed. Right off the bat. New spring be damned. This is not a good way to start the day at the range.
14 rounds 5 yards. Good shot results. Failure to feed last round on one magazine.
Push target out to 10 yards. Three failure to feed incidents in fourteen rounds. I have to physically press the rear of the slide forward with my thumbs to completely chamber the round when this happens.
Target to 20 yard. Again multiple failure to feed failures. This is just flat out depressing.
Target back to 10 yards. Repeat.
Target back to 5 yards. 32 rounds to finish off a 100 round session. Results fairly good (one gaping hole).
Overal the replacement of the spring was a waste of money. Mad Oilman's advice? Do not buy the Kimber Ultra Carry II. Failure to feed, failure to chamber certain ammo, jams, it's just not worth it.
100 rounds of .45 ACP in a 24 ounce gun is a bit of a session. But Mad Oilman was not done. Putting the Kimber away and bringing out the relatively new H&K, it's time for a 50 round Texas CHL test. 20 rounds 5 yards, 20 rounds 10 yards, 10 rounds 20 yards. Target out, I'm a bit depressed at the shot spread at 5 yards. Attributing it to fatigue, 20 rounds slowly converge to make a nice pattern.
Target to 10 yards. Take aim and fire away. Everything is falling into the same 4" window. Unbelievable.
Target to 20 yards. I can't really see what I'm hitting, only what I am aiming at. 10 yards completed I retrieve the target. And I am stunned. Every shot fall within a 5" circle. I have never shot this well. Especially after a 100 round .45 ACP session. The H&K is worrth every penny. There is no comparison betwen the Kimber and the H&K. None.
