Thread: Camo Kimber Hunter stock??

Originally Posted by Stocky

Montana stocks are shit house except that they arent plastic. They are better than the mountain ascents and maybe the hunter stocks if the camo is a coating but the tan hunter stocks are by far the best for dealing with wear as the material is tan. Minus thrashed and it's still all tan unlike my Montana was after 4 trips strapped to my pack.

Edit: I know the mountain ascent dip is shit but haven't actually used the hunter dipped stock so it may be better but I doubt it.

Yup my Kimber hunter stock as been dragged through some terribly thick bush. Plenty of scratches but still looks just fine. It's a functional rifle and the stock takes the beating.

Originally Posted by Makros

Yup my Kimber hunter stock as been dragged through some terribly thick bush. Plenty of scratches but still looks just fine. It's a functional rifle and the stock takes the beating.

@Makros Tan or Camo colour?

Originally Posted by Tahr

@Makros Tan or Camo colour?

Sorry, important information. The tan one - I don't think the camo coating would last one trip through some terrible Whanganui regrowth like the standard one has.

I will note though I have had some problems with my mag. Mine is in .308win and it was so tight with 3 in the mag it was basically non-functional. It was almost impossible to put the mag in with a closed bolt and have it latch. If you did manage it, it was close to jamming the bolt action, and if you got it open you ended up smearing a bunch of brass onto the bottom of the bolt and damaging the top cartridge.
It wasn't a follower spring issue, the magazine just genuinely had too little space to fit 3 .308 cartridges. The issue cost me a few animals as I had issues either reloading the mag quickly or feeding the first round. I checked the advertisements several times thinking it must just be a two shot mag, but I confirmed it was supposed to be three.

I ended up taking the mag apart and removing quite a bit of plastic under the follower spring, it functions perfectly now.
This wasn't unique to mine and I've seen a few overseas forum posts on this issue and the same solution used to fix it.
I was pretty disappointed from a manufacturer point of view as it is clearly a fairly major design flaw in the magazine dimensions.

Originally Posted by Makros

Sorry, important information. The tan one - I don't think the camo coating would last one trip through some terrible Whanganui regrowth like the standard one has.

I will note though I have had some problems with my mag. Mine is in .308win and it was so tight with 3 in the mag it was basically non-functional. It was almost impossible to put the mag in with a closed bolt and have it latch. If you did manage it, it was close to jamming the bolt action, and if you got it open you ended up smearing a bunch of brass onto the bottom of the bolt and damaging the top cartridge.
It wasn't a follower spring issue, the magazine just genuinely had too little space to fit 3 .308 cartridges. The issue cost me a few animals as I had issues either reloading the mag quickly or feeding the first round. I checked the advertisements several times thinking it must just be a two shot mag, but I confirmed it was supposed to be three.

I ended up taking the mag apart and removing quite a bit of plastic under the follower spring, it functions perfectly now.
This wasn't unique to mine and I've seen a few overseas forum posts on this issue and the same solution used to fix it.
I was pretty disappointed from a manufacturer point of view as it is clearly a fairly major design flaw in the magazine dimensions.

Snap I had exactly the same problem and took it back and got another mag which fixed the problem. Been a great little rifle ever since and give it a thrashing in North island Bush. With the gel removed its as light as pretty much any rifle out there.

Originally Posted by Nick.m

Snap I had exactly the same problem and took it back and got another mag which fixed the problem. Been a great little rifle ever since and give it a thrashing in North island Bush. With the gel removed its as light as pretty much any rifle out there.

Yeh was an early problem that was a warranty claim I even got to keep the tight mag which means I now have 2 after I also relieved some material.