Last Saturday I went to my monthly club IDPA match anticipating doing better than the previous match, or hoping anyway. Using my Kimber Pro Raptor I have previously shot 500-600 flawless rounds. Anywho, it's finally my turn up, shooter make ready, shooter ready? Nod my head indicating, "you bet your bippy I'm ready"! BEEP...
To make a long story short, I had 2 FTE and 2 stove pipes with the first eight round clip +1. During the course of the day I had another 3-4 through 60 rounds of ammo.
As an IDPA shooter you know it's not as simple as walking a couple hundred yards and retrieving the spare weapon you remembered to bring.
As I said, previously I had 500-600 flawless rounds before this match. In the days prior to the match, I replaced the recoil and trigger springs since I was somewhere close to 1,000 total rounds through it (a guess and I don't count).
For good measure I took along 4 of my brand new Wilson 47D magazines never used. I have always used Remington UMC .45 ammo with this gun, but not this time, I grabbed two boxes of Federal .45 I picked up on sale. I know Kimbers can be picky sometimes with certain ammo.
Lesson learned. All three of the things I did prior to the match could have caused or contributed to my problems. In the future I'll not make multiple changes at one time. This is also my EDC weapon and needs to be 100% reliable should it ever needed.
Now I'll have to determine which of the three is giving me problems, or something else. Needless to say, when seconds count in an IDPA match, I was only minutes away from victory
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Maybe not the sharpest tack in the box......but not dull!
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