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<blockquote data-quote="th82457" data-source="post: 1484388" data-attributes="member: 35153"><p>I currently own an 84M Montana in .308 & my brother-in law owns the same gun in 7mm-08 as well as an 8400 Montana in 30-06. Both shoot extremely well with my handloads. I cannot advise on factory ammo. I have also owned a 300 WSM Montana, .308 84M & .243 84M. All have shot very well in 3 shot groups (1/2" to 1") when not trying to cook the barrel. Only issue to date was the 30-06 with mis-feeds from mag box. Solved that by some slight clean-up of mag sheet metal at ramp and adding a stiffer leaf spring to follower as well as blocking front side of follower spring in stock to prevent excess movement of spring in stock. That took a bit to figure out, but feeds well now. We may just be lucky here, but I have had to do a lot more work on Remington 700's & Model 70's to get equivalent out of the box accuracy to all the Kimbers I have owned. I have not found a better balanced light bolt gun than a Kimber either. Some may be as light - but they will not carry & point as well in a hunting rifle. It all comes down to the purpose of the gun. I think for mountain hunting where you are walking and carrying a load, a Kimber is hard to beat. If you are target shooting, varmint hunting or doing long range big game hunting where you spend little time carrying the rifle - then buy something else Just my two cents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="th82457, post: 1484388, member: 35153"] I currently own an 84M Montana in .308 & my brother-in law owns the same gun in 7mm-08 as well as an 8400 Montana in 30-06. Both shoot extremely well with my handloads. I cannot advise on factory ammo. I have also owned a 300 WSM Montana, .308 84M & .243 84M. All have shot very well in 3 shot groups (1/2" to 1") when not trying to cook the barrel. Only issue to date was the 30-06 with mis-feeds from mag box. Solved that by some slight clean-up of mag sheet metal at ramp and adding a stiffer leaf spring to follower as well as blocking front side of follower spring in stock to prevent excess movement of spring in stock. That took a bit to figure out, but feeds well now. We may just be lucky here, but I have had to do a lot more work on Remington 700's & Model 70's to get equivalent out of the box accuracy to all the Kimbers I have owned. I have not found a better balanced light bolt gun than a Kimber either. Some may be as light - but they will not carry & point as well in a hunting rifle. It all comes down to the purpose of the gun. I think for mountain hunting where you are walking and carrying a load, a Kimber is hard to beat. If you are target shooting, varmint hunting or doing long range big game hunting where you spend little time carrying the rifle - then buy something else Just my two cents. [/QUOTE]
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