Kimber and Overload

[KING]

  Thought that you guys with the 1911 type .45 might find this interesting a little.  On saturday I was working at our local range.  We had probably 7 guys shoting on the handgun range(25 yards) and it is a 10 place range for that usage.  Seems that one of the guys was shooting his new Kimber/stainless in .45.  We did not notice much from the report of his gun as he shot it,but he did bring it to the range house cause he said that the load kicked to much and blew the mag out the bottom.   (read real intrested at this point)  I checked his mag and the two rounds left in same,had had the slugs moved backward about 6 to 8 mm.  I figured this was just from the recoil of his load.  The guy was downright sure that he had put 5.5 of Accurate Arms #7 in the cases.  He did say that he had not had his glasses on,but the balance beam was right on.  He fired another two rounds,and the third blew the mag out (again) and blew off the grips on the gun.  Now,he is not so sure of his exact charge.  At any rate...in checking the weight of the powder from a round that the projo was pulled from it weighed......12.1 grains.   Read 12.1 of AA#7.  I think that ssays alot about the Kimbers.  He had shot over 20 rounds,prior to the last one taking the grips off.   Almost forgot...he was shooting a 230 grn hp,I did not get the maker.,sorry.....stay safe...King :roll:  :roll:

[Questor]

I can understand the misfortune of an overload in the case of a double charge thrown from a progressive reloading machine. It's preventable, but understandable.  But this kind of gross carelessness is absolutely amazing.  He's luck he wasn't seriously injured.

[Alice Cooper]

thanks, i feel much better about my kimber now!you gotta check them loads...triple checking is not out of the question...

[KING]

:-)      Tell me about it.  I never use anyones reloads,just because of this.  I have an aquaintance,and he is just an aquaintance,that reloads.  Both rifle and pistol.  At least once a year,and this is no joke by any stretch...he will either blow up a handgun...or a rifle  to attempting to get more speed and power out of it.  He truely has a learning curve that is a flat line....And he has been doint this for over thirty years.  He has got to be the luckiest guy I know not to have killed himself.  Three years ago he blew up a bp gun,by using red dot in it.  What a maroon... :shock:  :shock:  :shock:    Stay safe...King

[Questor]

My tale of woe with using somebody else's handloads is in 44 magnum. I bought some reloads from a past national champion pistol expert and one of them had a double charge (or close to it). Fortunately they were light target loads and the double charge was still not enough to blow or damage the gun.  He sure liked his Lee progressive reloading machine.

[191145]

"Maroon"?

[Alice Cooper]

you know, like on gilligan's island.....

[KING]

:-D  :-D   191145.....MAROON...is a polite term for a moron.  Kinda like the cookie....it only takes one to BLOW yer diet.  ok...its looses something in the translation.  I probably still did not spell it correctly :roll:  :roll:.....stay safe......................King

[sweet45]

I get sick of all the talk about kimbers being gods gift to man. First the kimber is the most accurate 1911 in the world,now we read about double charge reloads shot out of a kimber with minimal damage.YEP...If it was a colt I guess it would have blown up ,right.Why not give credit to the strength of the 1911 design,and not the kimber.I have seen them kimbers at the range a million times malfunctioning,and thats from the factory without some after market butcher job. All I hear about is the sloppy rattling colts,but I have a couple government models that have ben running great for the last 15 years,and I bet them rattle traps will shoot the center out any target,without cleaning  every 100 rounds.

[Heavy C]

Wow, a million malfunctions - think someone would have posted something about that by now. 

Anyway, that guy is lucky that he or others did not get hurt.

[Savage]

I get sick of all the talk about kimbers being gods gift to man. First the kimber is the most accurate 1911 in the world,now we read about double charge reloads shot out of a kimber with minimal damage.YEP...If it was a colt I guess it would have blown up ,right.Why not give credit to the strength of the 1911 design,and not the kimber.I have seen them kimbers at the range a million times malfunctioning,and thats from the factory without some after market butcher job. All I hear about is the sloppy rattling colts,but I have a couple government models that have ben running great for the last 15 years,and I bet them rattle traps will shoot the center out any target,without cleaning  every 100 rounds.

Now there's a man that's brand loyal! Everyone knows the only 1911 out there is _____________ (insert your favorite brand) All the others are JUNK!!!!!!!!

Savage

[KN]

One post, and its a criticism.  Hmmmm.

[Josh M.]

It isn't a Kimber thing, It's a 1911 thing...

I'm a big Kimber fan, but all 1911's are way over built for the pressures of standard .45ACP.

I suspect that any 1911 would have had the same results.

Now for the 'million jamming Kimbers'...I'm a (part time) gunsmith...I did just fix a malfunctioning Kimber Fri, the tweek it need was minor.  No different than the kind of things that get past the factory at Colt, Springfield, ect.

A 1911 is a 1911.  And any factory that doesn't do a 500 round function test before shipping each gun is going to have an occasional tolerance stackup that leads to malfunctions.  Since no factory can test each gun so carefully, they all have some minor annoyances slip through. (And rarely, they all have some MAJOR problems slip by.)

Now enough of this HOGWASH.
Hats off to the 1911 that took the pressure of that guys mistake and saved his eyes and hands!  - Josh M.

[rigger1]

One post, and its a criticism.  Hmmmm.

Hey, he's just a newbee; let's give him a break (even though I know MY Kimber is the best).