I have a Kimber Custom II in 45 ACP that I bought new around 2010. Very often, think nearly all the time, I have a FTF (Failure to Feed) on the first round of a magazine. If I under load the magazine by one round, it will work fine, but I don't want to. I want the gun to work right. I bought some Wilson Combat mags and it helped, and I replaced the springs and it helped. However, it still does the FTF on the first rounds. What it seems to do is, hit the feed ramp and the nose of the round goes to the top of the chamber and it gets stuck in a nose high position with the round not in the chamber hardly at all. Or it will mostly load and get stuck a little nose high and I'll pull the slide back and it will straighten out and load.
After some internet research, I found that it might be the extractor tension, but I really have no idea. Has anyone else had this problem? More importantly, has anyone else been able to FIX this problem??
I'm not sure that I can send it in for warranty after ten years and I don't want to sell the gun. I bought it ten years ago and don't think the Custom II's sell for as high as they once did. Also, it is an accurate gun, just not reliable at this time.
Thanks