Kimber Camp Guard 10 10mm
Model: 3000233
Kimber Camp Guard 10 10mm
Model: 3000233
Full Specifications
About This Firearm
The Kimber Camp Guard 10 is a two-tone single-action 10mm 1911 built for hunting. It has an MSRP of $1,476 and weighs 38.0 oz over a 5-inch barrel. Kimber fits tactical wedge night sights at both ends, so the sights show in first and last light.
The frame is stainless under a satin silver finish and the slide is coated in KimPro II matte black, and the two-tone look comes from the pair of them. The barrel is stainless steel and Kimber holds it at the muzzle with a match-grade bushing. Trigger pull is listed between 4 and 5 lb, and the safeties are a thumb lever and a grip safety. There is no optic cut, so a dot would mean cutting a coated slide, and the night sights are fixed, so a load that prints high gets held off for.
If you're cross-shopping, the Springfield Armory 1911 TRP Operator is no longer made and comes off the used market, 2.0 oz heavier at 40.0 oz with tritium sights and Cerakote over forged carbon steel. The Rock Island Armory TAC Ultra has an MSRP of $839 at 39.8 oz, with an adjustable rear sight and an accessory rail, so it costs less and takes a light, while its sights have no tritium in them.
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Strengths & Limitations
- Night sights front and rear come from the factory, so there is no aftermarket sight job to budget for.
- The rosewood panels carry the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation logo and sit on the usual 1911 screw pattern, so G10 panels fit if wet weather is the norm.
- The bushing is the match-grade component, and it returns the barrel to the same place shot after shot without the cost of a fitted bull barrel.
- There is no optic cut, and milling a KimPro II slide means refinishing the cut afterwards.
- Rosewood is an oiled hardwood, so panels left wet over a season will dry out and need attention.
- Kimber quotes the pull as a range, 4 lb at one end and 5 lb at the other, so two guns off the same line can feel different.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the rifling rate?
Left-hand 1:16, the standard rate for 10mm, so no factory load for the cartridge falls outside what the barrel will stabilize.
What are tactical wedge night sights?
Kimber's name for the tritium sight set fitted front and rear on this pistol. The lamps glow without a battery and give an aiming point in light too low to see a black blade in.
Why does it carry Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation branding?
Kimber builds the Camp Guard 10 as an outdoor model in that partnership, and the RMEF logo is inlaid in the rosewood grip panels.
