Kimber of oregon model 82 serial numbers pro#
Had enough experience with a pair of 89s that it cured my desire to own them.The $64,000 question is did I learn anything? We shall overlook the 84M Pro Varmint chronicles.(grin) I don't think I can be accused of not giving Kimber, in all of it's MANY forms, a fair shot. Owned two 84s that were not quite there but still quite good. The only one I really regret selling was a Pre-Super America S series.22 Hornet. Then, they should go out and buy a Remington 700. My shoulder wasn't right for at least two weeks and I had to go back to shooting.22s and.223s at the range for a while, to get rid of the flinchies.Having been there all during the Kimber BGRs evolution, I would suggest that anyone interested in buying one should take a cold shower. After suffering through one hundred rounds of.416 Rigby in a single sitting, I swore off shooting big rifles for fun. Darwin Hensly's bill for the stock alone was amazing!!! For that kind of money, you'd think they would have gotten the simple stuff right. I forget how much it cost, but it was over $50,000. The floorplate latch also failed about thirty rounds out and I had to duct tape the floorplate closed to complete the firing.Soooo, I took the POS back and mentioned the problems (in my silver-tongued way ).Apparently, they wanted the rib to stick real good, so they added a second serew (still 6-48) and drilled and tapped the back one clear through and into the freakin' chamber And I believe the band-type front sight also fell off in Finn's test shooting guess they didn't fix that little problem the first time.The Kimber.416 Rigby was a prototype. Greg Warne knew, or at least suspected, that Finn was a real gun writer and would actually shoot the gun, instead of look at it and make up stuff to write about.Anyway, my shooting test was to see if it would actually hold together.īy the end of 100 rounds, the front sight had slipped forward and off the barrel and the silly rib (held by one 6-48 screw, for pity's sake) popped off at about round number ten. They are quite attractive.Regards, Matt.Matt,If that is the.416 Rigby that was written up in The American Rifleman, I shot the rifle 100 rounds before they shipped it to Finn. The model shipped to Finn Aagaard for evaluation had the forward most scope mounting hole drilled all the way through to the chamber.That said it could be a charm. The Kimber of Oregon 82s tended to be VERY good. Imho,It may be and it may be a nightmare.
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