Saluki9,
I had debated responding to your post for several days. I used to own a Kimber Gold Match in stainless steel. Initially, I had extractor problems with it. My problems continued even after the extractor was tensioned (failure to eject and failure to feed). I switched to Wilson magazines hoping that is was a magazine issue...still without positive results. I then took it in to a very competent gunsmith to check the barrel. He did some minor polishing and smoothing of rough edges and returned the pistol to me a week later. I still had the same failures as mentioned above. After putting 1,000 rounds downrange I became very frustrated and traded the pistol toward a Gold Cup. In the end, I couldn't get through a single magazine without a failure. Others shot this pistol with the exact same results. I am not saying that Kimber doesn't make good pistols. However, this Gold Match was not one of their better efforts. In saying that, there is a potential risk in every new pistol you buy (because you can't take it for a test drive before you buy).
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