Running low on the expensive, hard-to-find ammo? Have plenty of rimfire squirreled away in coffee cans? Bumming that you’re smaller-frame 1911 has kept you from buying a .22 conversion kit. Well bum no more, big boy. Kimber now has just the thing for you. Their new .22 LR conversion kit fits their smaller pistols like the Ultra Compact and Pro models. As well as just about any other small-framed mil-spec 1911. along with the slide and barrel, they include a 10-round mag. A shorter 8-round flush-fitter’s available, too. MSRP will be $340 and they’ll be out in 2-3 months. But it won’t take you much range time to pay for this thing when you tote up the .45 vs. .22 savings. Right? Another pic of one spotted in the wild after the jump . . .
I’ve owned a Kimber conversion kit for a couple years. It can be dry fired without damage, it never misfires or misfeads and all the bullets go through the same hole. I’m buying the compact for my wife as a house gun. She’s kinda petite and can’t properly manage a center fire.
Still waiting for Kimber to actually put these into production. You can’t even find this kit on their website unless you Google it.
I’d love to have one of these kits for my Defender.
Any idea on a release date??