lady 45

Front sight, front sight, front sight!!!!!!! It's amazing how well that works!!!!!!

Just wanted to let you all know - you saved me some bucks$$$$$ - took my file to my kimber and got it down pretty good. Then at my club yesterday, our resident gunsmith buffed it down even more. I shot a match with it and yeahhhhh - no pain!!!!!! Tony - our gunsmith - is going to re-blue and polish it up for me. thanks for all the help!!!!!!!

Actually, I wasn't going to mention that I had sanded off a bunch of bluing! Figured I could touch it up with my black 'sharpie' marker! It's a great gun, accurate and shoots anything and everything. I really don't want to stop using it. Then again, if I keep using it, sooner or later the blister will become a callous. And then it won't hurt anymore!

Donna - nice pic in your profile... Both a big old smile and your finger is clear of the trigger! Now you too can join the club of those who have hogged up their gun with a dremel tool. Carefull now! hehe Thank you for the compliment! Can you tell how much I like shooting by my smile? It was pounded into my head when I first started shooting - finger of the trigger - finger off the trigger!!!!! I don't even think about it any more. And then of course - front sight - front sight - front sight!!! Worked on the safety for awhile and then shot some. Discovered that the problem is also where the edge of the beaver tail meets the grip safety, right behind the ambi safety. There's a little ridge there. Don't know how much I can/should sand there. I don't have this problem with my S&W even though they're the same width. I even put slim grips on my Kimber, but I have long fingers so that's not really a problem. I may just have to wrap some tape around my thumb! Thanks for all the great advice!

so - the popular concensus seems to be - get out my file!!!!!!

You're probably right - much cheaper - and if that doesn't work - then I'll consider replacing it. Thanks

Hi - thanks for the response - I think it's the edges - on my S&W - the back edge is more rounded and flat to the gun - on the Kimber it's more angled - almost a V shape as opposed to a U shape. Make sense?

Hi - I'm new to the forum and mostly just read the posts. Wow have I learned a lot just from 'lurking'! I have a Kimber custom target 1911. I shoot IPSC and use the high ride grip - my thumb rests on the safety. By the end of the match I usally have a blister at the base of my thumb from the safety digging into it on recoil. I had our resident gunsmith file down the back edge of the safety but it still digs in to my thumb. Consequently, I start flinching even before I shoot, anticipating the pain! I also have a S&W 1911 and have no problem at all with it, using the same grip. The safeties are a little different shape so I assume that's the problem. I love my Kimber and want to use it. Can anyone suggest a different ambi safety that I can put on it. I saw a couple in the Brownells catalogue that seem to be geared to the hi-ride grip but at $50 bucks, I don't want to order the wrong thing. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Hi All - I'm new here but have learned soooo much already. I've struggled with shooting 'left' for several years now and couldn't figure out why. I'm eye cross dominant (right hand/left eye) and thought that was the problem. Made myself start shooting with my right eye. Still shooting left. Really concentrated on using just the pad of my trigger finger, follow through, sight alignment, watching my sights and on and on and on. I shoot a 1911 Kimber and a S&W 1911, same problem with both, so I know it's me. The other nite I was dry firing in front of the mirror and noticed that my muzzle was going ever so slightly left. I too ride the safety with my right thumb. Well, a little adjustment of my grip and the gun was pointing straight on! The problem - I have very long fingers and to get my hand aroung the grip, I was canting the gun to the left. I tried this at the range with live fire and amazing - but my shots are now more centered, so much so that I have to readjust my sights back to the left. So, maybe that will help someone else with very large hands or extra long fingers.