Kimber rifles have always been exquisitely beautiful and well made.
However, there was something...geez, it was so long ago.
I had a .17 cal. rifle, custom built by Dick Saunders back in the 80s. (I was asking him if he'd considered using the Kimber action for building .221 Fireball based rimless versions of any of his .17 cal. Wildcats?)
At that time, the "old" Kimber, Kimber of Oregon, was building rifles really close to where I live, over in Clackamas.
Their new, .223 sized action was just out, and many owners were complaining at that time about accuracy problems.
I remember Saunders discussing this with me and the fact that there was a "major design problem" in regards to the bedding method these actions employed vs. the accepted standards for accuracy.
As I recall these problems DID NOT exist for their later Big Game series of rifles.
I sure wish I could remember the details of this...maybe someone else does?
I don't know if these "problems" were ever changed/corrected in later production rifles or not.
But there was "something"!