Kimber Micro 9 question
 

K ren bought herself a sweet little Kimber Micro 9.

It has been misfiring once every magazine or 2. Pull the trigger, click, nothing. Manually eject the round, continue for a while with no issues. Primer has a small mark, but no dent...

Reload same round into next magazine, and it fires no problem.

Does not seem to matter what brand of ammo.

I have heard that Kimbers need "a couple hundred rounds to stop fouling" whatever that means. but hers now has 300-ish through it. Is this something that might cure itself, would a supersonic cleaning help, (might be hogwash, but our club offers these) or should we seek professional gunsmith help?

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I'd try a new spring first. I've cured lots of Kimber hickups with new Wolff springs.

This is a Micro 9, not a 1911, I couldn't find a spring listed on their website for this gun.

Do you think a new recoil spring will cure a misfire mid-magazine?

Sounds like a firing pin issue to me. call Kimber and let them know about it. They should fix it for free. I have to admit being a SIG type person. My SIG version of this has functioned flawlessly since new. I really liked this piece due to the deburring and rounding of all sharp edges. The only Kimber I liked enough to buy was their old Para P-14 .45. One of the sweetest shooting 1911 style weapons I ever fired.










BOB

It is going back to Kimber. I have read that Academy got a batch with the same problem.

She bought it at Academy.

Kudos to Kimber...

They have it now, and they paid for the ride!

Hopefully it won't take long to get it back.......

:woohoo: