Custom II Family

Custom quality. Production price.

Until just a few years ago, the only way to get a 1911 pistol as good as the Kimber Custom was from a custom pistolsmith. Drop off a pistol, wait a few months and spend more than a few hundred dollars, hoping all the while that what you got back would look decent and actually work.

Kimber changed all that, delivering a 1911 pistol with unequaled accuracy and dependability right out of the box, one costing less than what shooters had been paying for their custom work alone. More than anything else, the advent of the Kimber Custom ignited the 1911 popularity seen today.

The Custom is now the Custom II, because like most Kimber 1911s it incorporates the Kimber Firing Pin Safety™ that makes each pistol more secure without impeding performance or altering trigger pull. It has also become a family, with twenty one models in four calibers. LAPD™ SWAT Team carries them. So do United States Marines, thousands of law enforcement officers and hundreds of thousands of American shooters who refuse to compromise with either a lesser pistol design or another brand.

Centerfire 1911s have a Loaded Chamber Indicator Port™. When a round is chambered and light is available, the shell casing should be visible through the slot.	The Custom TLE II .45 ACP is identical to the pistol selected by LAPD™ SWAT for duty carry. Features include night sights and 30 LPI frontstrap checkering.
Slides and frames are mated in the early stages of production and travel through the balance together, ensuring optimum fitting of every part.

"...the advent of the Kimber Custom ignited the 1911 popularity seen today."

Today, the Kimber Custom sets the standard for all production 1911 pistols. Models are offered with fixed, adjustable or night sights. Some have the Kimber Tactical Rail™ for accessory mounting. Many have slides and frames machined from stainless steel. Others are finished in traditional polished blue or the premium KimPro II&trade finish that is self-lubricating and shuts out the elements. Chamberings range from 9mm and the flat-shooting 38 Super to the powerhouses 10mm. Naturally, most are chambered in the cartridge the 1911 was designed to fire, the great .45 ACP.

As with all Kimber pistols, standard features set Customs apart from other brands. Barrels, barrel bushings, chambers and triggers are all machined to match grade dimensions. Ejection ports are lowered and flared. Sights are mounted in dovetails machined into the slide. Thumb safeties are extended. Highride beavertail grip safeties also have a memory bump.

Kimber Customs are made the right way and from start to finish in the Kimber factory here in America. There is no other way to ensure such a high level of quality.