







At this point of time it had the infamous Kimber external extractor. I will say mine has always worked 100 % but have only shot this pistol a few thousand times. It is just not that accurate.







Then this year I dug it out of the safe and thought I would do a little more than a field strip. Of course I am leery about doing a detail strip on any Series II Kimber as you get to remove the rear sight to take out the plunger spring on the mechanical firing pin safety which is similar to the old Colt Swartz System that Colt dropped about the time WWII started. Anyway I noticed the plastic MSH had a crack in it.







I replaced that with a steel one from Brown. Colt used and still uses a Nylon based plastic on MSH on some models and I have them in pistols going back to the 1980s and have never had one crack.



The Special Combat Gov (SCG) uses steel in the MSH by the way. In 2006 I sort of back doored into one of these. I bought a new Gold Cup Trophy (GCT) in SS and the gun store had two of them and they both looked nice. This was Saturday as I recall and on Sunday I went out to one cousins ranch for BBQ and some shooting. He loved the GCT and gave me more than I had paid for it. I figured no problem as the store had another one and I would swing by Monday and pick it up. It had sold but they had just gotten in a SCG in .45 and hard chrome for $1.4K so I bought it. Although it may not be as pretty in a sales case as the Kimber it is better in every other way. I bought it some aftermarket grips from Esmeralda in Desert Ironwood.







I like it enough that I have thought about buying it a brother in hard chrome and 38 Super. Absolutely buy the Colt. I have been down the same road except I did not see the Colt next to the Kimber in a case at the same time. In 2005 I paid about $1.3K for a Kimber Grand Raptor II. It is pretty. That is about all I can say for it. I even bought it some aftermarket grips from Esmeralda in Tulip wood with snake scales.At this point of time it had the infamous Kimber external extractor. I will say mine has always worked 100 % but have only shot this pistol a few thousand times. It is just not that accurate.Then this year I dug it out of the safe and thought I would do a little more than a field strip. Of course I am leery about doing a detail strip on any Series II Kimber as you get to remove the rear sight to take out the plunger spring on the mechanical firing pin safety which is similar to the old Colt Swartz System that Colt dropped about the time WWII started. Anyway I noticed the plastic MSH had a crack in it.I replaced that with a steel one from Brown. Colt used and still uses a Nylon based plastic on MSH on some models and I have them in pistols going back to the 1980s and have never had one crack.The Special Combat Gov (SCG) uses steel in the MSH by the way. In 2006 I sort of back doored into one of these. I bought a new Gold Cup Trophy (GCT) in SS and the gun store had two of them and they both looked nice. This was Saturday as I recall and on Sunday I went out to one cousins ranch for BBQ and some shooting. He loved the GCT and gave me more than I had paid for it. I figured no problem as the store had another one and I would swing by Monday and pick it up. It had sold but they had just gotten in a SCG in .45 and hard chrome for $1.4K so I bought it. Although it may not be as pretty in a sales case as the Kimber it is better in every other way. I bought it some aftermarket grips from Esmeralda in Desert Ironwood.I like it enough that I have thought about buying it a brother in hard chrome and 38 Super. __________________

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