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I've been shooting guns for less than a year, here's my circuitous route to how, on my lunch break today, I go pick up my Kimber Raptor.
It started out with me just wanting to get an M1 Garand to hang on the wall in respect for my late dad who fought in Leyte and Okinawa in WWII. I realized it would be ridiculous to just hang it on the wall so I decided to get some training in gun safety. I found out about a shooting school here in Los Angeles taught by active LAPD SWAT team members called ITTS.
Their Handgun I class is the prerequisite for all the other classes they teach so I took it. Wow, I realized I like shooting semiautomatic pistols, and with the finger control from a lifetime of playing guitar, finding my way around trigger press, while challenging, felt pretty natural, I'd imagine other guitar players here know just what I'm talking about. Anyway, the class was so much fun I ended up over the last year also taking the ITTS Handgun II and III and now signed up for Advanced Handgun.
Early on I bought a rental range gun from the range I go to, Oaktree. This is a S&W 1911 that shoots great and I got it cheap, but because it's got S&W specific target sights I couldn't put standard night sights on it so decided to look around for a better 1911. I seriously considered several others, but after Handgun III I realized that all these SWAT guys were shooting Kimbers so decided to go that route, I wanted something in stainless steel frame and slide, ambi thumb safety, and night sights. I considered the TLE but would have to have someone install an ambi thumb safety, so I figured I might as well go for the Raptor II. Today at noon on my lunch break I go in to pick it up after the ten day hold, I can't wait! My next class, Advance Handgun, isn't until early November, so I have months to polish my skills with this Kimber.
Oh, and I did end up getting an M1 Garand.
I almost forgot to ask. Given that this is a Custom Shop Kimber, it's my understanding that there is a lot more hand fitting than something like the TLE. The guys at ITTS like sending their Kimbers to Robar to really get them dialed in. So my question is, given the attention given by Kimber's Custom Shop, would it be unnecessary for me to send the gun to Robar for the final touch of mojo? I hope not.
Thanks,
Plexibreath
I've been shooting guns for less than a year, here's my circuitous route to how, on my lunch break today, I go pick up my Kimber Raptor.
It started out with me just wanting to get an M1 Garand to hang on the wall in respect for my late dad who fought in Leyte and Okinawa in WWII. I realized it would be ridiculous to just hang it on the wall so I decided to get some training in gun safety. I found out about a shooting school here in Los Angeles taught by active LAPD SWAT team members called ITTS.
Their Handgun I class is the prerequisite for all the other classes they teach so I took it. Wow, I realized I like shooting semiautomatic pistols, and with the finger control from a lifetime of playing guitar, finding my way around trigger press, while challenging, felt pretty natural, I'd imagine other guitar players here know just what I'm talking about. Anyway, the class was so much fun I ended up over the last year also taking the ITTS Handgun II and III and now signed up for Advanced Handgun.
Early on I bought a rental range gun from the range I go to, Oaktree. This is a S&W 1911 that shoots great and I got it cheap, but because it's got S&W specific target sights I couldn't put standard night sights on it so decided to look around for a better 1911. I seriously considered several others, but after Handgun III I realized that all these SWAT guys were shooting Kimbers so decided to go that route, I wanted something in stainless steel frame and slide, ambi thumb safety, and night sights. I considered the TLE but would have to have someone install an ambi thumb safety, so I figured I might as well go for the Raptor II. Today at noon on my lunch break I go in to pick it up after the ten day hold, I can't wait! My next class, Advance Handgun, isn't until early November, so I have months to polish my skills with this Kimber.
Oh, and I did end up getting an M1 Garand.
I almost forgot to ask. Given that this is a Custom Shop Kimber, it's my understanding that there is a lot more hand fitting than something like the TLE. The guys at ITTS like sending their Kimbers to Robar to really get them dialed in. So my question is, given the attention given by Kimber's Custom Shop, would it be unnecessary for me to send the gun to Robar for the final touch of mojo? I hope not.
Thanks,
Plexibreath
