Kimber K6s 357 Magnum Target Revolver Review

the kimber k6s 357 magnum target revolver let's check it out so [Music] guys kimber's known for its 1911s and they're just beautiful firearms i mean i've always admired kimber's i own a couple of different kimber firearms semi-automatics but one thing that kimber's lesser known for is their revolvers but the quality that they put into their 1911s i knew that the revolvers were going to be really a cut above and they are i mean they're just beautiful and it's one of the things that i like is a really fine crafted beautiful handgun i mean there's just something about it and originally we did a review on the kimber k6s dcr which is their deluxe carry revolver it's a two inch 357 magnum and guys it is just one of those guns that you put in your hand and you just admire but you also want to take it to the range and so we also have the kimber target k6s and this is a four inch barrel it's double single action and it really takes you to a whole another place and we really appreciate kimber for sending the k6s target model not only just for the review but also just for the experience the kimber got its start in 1979 making 22 rifles they were known to be very accurate and they had a really large following the company was actually started by jack warren who came from australia and he ended up selling the company and owns warren manufacturing which makes some of the best sites and mounts on the market then they begin to make 1911s which they are very well known for and they have a really nice line of rifles and of course they do have some concealed carry options and now they have their revolvers guys this is a work of art i mean it's a beautiful revolver and yet it has power that's one of the things about 357 magnum you know it just gives you a lot of capability and then you can run all the way down to 38 special even just soft loads and so you can take someone out first time shooter with something like this and be able to go all the way up the list really get them accustomed to just learning how to shoot a firearm and really revolvers are one of the best things in fact my wife i started her out with a model 10. after we shot 22 a little bit and you know it was one of those guns all steel frame which this is all stainless steel so it's got a good heft to it and of course when shooting 357 magnum you're going to find that this has a different kind of recoil impulse which i like first off is it's just a really smoothly finished firearm does have a brushed stainless steel finish you can kind of see the quality i mean it's just a beautiful design and it's well executed let's go ahead and make sure the gun's unloaded we're going to push in our cylinder latch you don't push forward you don't pull back we have a six round cylinder and uh it's really smooth i mean this thing just glides and that's the way it is with all the pieces of this firearm all the controls are just very easy i mean it's a really nice push it's definite you know you have your cylinder rod it is protected completely right there in the barrel shroud nice solid lock up the cylinder has flats on it and this just makes it a little thinner so it's going to make it a more of a thin revolver a lot of times revolvers because they're completely round they just kind of have a little bit of a thickness to them and this makes it easier to to wear on a belt makes it easier to conceal walnut grips absolutely beautiful grips serrations on the back strap is going to give you a little bit of gripping and then of course you have finger grooves now this can be changed out to a rubber grip if you choose crimson trace whatever i mean there's a lot of options but it's a smaller grip but it makes you feel like you've really got a good control of the firearm especially shooting 357 magnum and one of the things we'll talk about when we go to the range is that it definitely punches back and there's less muzzle flip you know and of course there are a lot of options you could change this out even with a larger grip if that's what you prefer but for this streamlined firearm i think the grip really fits this is a double single action and that means that when you pull the trigger it actuates the hammer and you fire or you can do single action which you just bring the hammer back very nice lighter crisp break and so that's great for target the double action is great for just pulling it out and being able to fire it immediately and one thing about revolvers is they're very safe to carry with a loaded chamber i definitely have firing pin blocks if you drop it it's going to be drop safe got the muzzle of the barrel right here it's softened i mean all the metal edges are softened and then it's just one solid piece that comes back which includes usually a barrel shroud right here and then of course the top we have a gutter right here but we have a really nice adjustable side on the back this is fully adjustable and then of course at the front this is with the green fiber optic it does come also in a red fiber optic so this is actually the target gfo model if you want the red it's just the standard target model now aside from the beauty the trigger pull is a thing of beauty we're gonna go ahead double action first very smooth and then a nice break again very smooth there is no stacking you feel the click of the cylinder unlock and lock and really when you pull that trigger it unlocks and then actually right before it locks right there man it is heavy but it is super smooth single action man that is super crisp it's just right on it i mean the trigger to me is one of the best revolver triggers i've ever experienced maybe aside from a colt python which those things are hand fitted they're beautiful but uh this is just a great trigger remember lyman trigger gauge from brownells we're gonna check the double action trigger pull seven pounds eleven point six ounces seven pounds seven point four ounces single action three pounds four ounces i mean it is beautiful guys this is one of those firearms that you just appreciate because of the quality and the finish oh man i love revolvers just for that reason alone now i want to show you the cylinder it has recessed cylinders so that means when the rounds go down they actually go down into the chamber or the cylinder and what that's going to do is if you have excess pressures it's not going to be on the outside and you're not going to have a catastrophic explosion on the outside so it'll contain it in the cylinder which adds to a safety factor and two it just gets it more solid in there and it allows for the cylinder to ride closer to this back strap in the firing pin now to me one of the big advantages of a 357 is you've got your 38 specials you can go down to just really mild loads and you can go all the way up to more high-powered jacketed hollow-point self-defense loads and there's a lot in between even with the 38 you got your 38 plus p jacketed hollow points they're great but for self-defense of course you know you want a jacketed hollow point and even 38 plus p is a great round for self defense we really appreciate fiocchi for sponsoring the ammo we have some 357 magnum 158 grain and this is just the full metal jacket and then we have some 38 special this is 130 grain and it's just round nose so we're going to start out with the 38 first just to kind of get things started and then we're going to move up to the 357 magnum now of course the easiest way to load is through a speed loader or a strip the strips are pretty cool but you just drop down your rounds into the speed loader and these were sent by kimber i mean they're really nice speed loaders once you get your rounds in underneath just lock it and it locks it into place makes it really fast to reload man it comes back in your hand but it is soft to shoot now while the fit and the finish and just the smoothness of the action is nice it translates to the range you know we talked about the trigger and guys i'm telling you this trigger is buttery smooth and it's one of the reasons why kimbers you know cost what they do is because there's a lot of hand fitting that goes on especially with the sear and the trigger engagement i mean it is a beautiful thing and if you love revolvers you're going to be spoiled with the kimber trigger i mean it's just beautiful and on a target pistol you really want that you know one of the things about the kimber is is you can pull it right out of the box and it has an incredible trigger the sights of course with that target sight on the back and then that high profile fiber optic sight on the front it just allows you to get right on target one of the things though about single and double action of course single action we're pulling the hammer back and firing each shot and that's really great for you know getting that superb accuracy if you really want to get the accuracy it's a really short trigger pull it's very crisp very easy to get really good accuracy but then really pulling it even double action it's so smooth all the way through i mean it really actually allows you to get those really fast shots in a self-defense situation you're going to fire this double action but it gives you the best of both worlds but now when you're shooting 357 magnum you definitely have a lot of power behind that cartridge and so a lot of times you'll have a lot of muzzle flip so one of the things we didn't experience with the kimber it was more of a push back and so it kept that front sight right in line every time and i'll tell you you knew you were shooting 357 mag but there was something very comforting about it shooting 38 special still has a little punch to it and but then moving up to 357 magnum you've got a lot of power and yet it's more pushback in the hand than it is muzzle flip now it does have these wood grips and the wood grips are beautiful they fit in your hand well and it shoots well but really i like just a soft rubber grip a lot of times when firing these tight pistols because it gives you a little more cushioning and they do make the rubber grips for these so if you don't choose to go with these beautiful wood grips there are other options available this is the four inch barrel but it also has different models with four three and two inch in the double single action but they also offer just the double action only the hammer is internal and so you know this is really easy to pull out to use in a self-defense situation you know we just did a review on the dcr deluxe carry model and they have a number of different choices but uh this is just a beautiful firearm i've been carrying this one for a while in fact for the first time i've been carrying outside the waistband and the way this thing is so thin it rides really close now this gun is unloaded there's nothing in here but this is a beautiful firearm and so the target gives you a little bit of a different kind of application to it whereas the two-inch revolver is great for self-defense great for concealed carry the four-inch model which you can still carry this if you want to carry it concealed but it does have more of a longer sight radius it's going to give you a little better accuracy and it's just going to be more fun at the range give you a little more heft now being an all steel pistol you're going to have some half to it one pound 12.6 ounces when it comes to the two inch model one pound 7.6 ounces now kimber also offers a number of accessories uh and of course this holster is a kimber marked holster it's just beautiful it's actually a galco but it's marked kimber and you know galco makes really great holsters but that's one thing that they have a lot of support for their firearms including these speed loaders these are absolutely beautiful and of course they're all aluminum they run about 30 bucks a piece but you can get the standard speed loaders that will fit the kimber revolvers as well but to me if you're gonna spend the money on a kimber it's just nice to have this set now when it comes to price the manufacturer's suggested retail price is a thousand forty six dollars which seems like a lot of money but when you look at revolver prices across the board they have definitely gone up considerably and a lot of that has to do with the hand fitting that goes into revolvers but when you take the kimber and then the fine finishing melting of the edges the incredible trigger i mean just the beauty and the well-finished piece you know this is something that you can really treasure now obviously there are other cheaper models out there that you know smith and wesson colt even ruger and taurus i mean there's a number of companies that make revolvers and so you have to decide what's in your budget but if you really want to go to the top the kimber to me is just a beautiful excellent firearm the trigger pull alone is just one of those things that'll just make you just um feels good and again we want to thank kimber for sending the k6s target model for this review yes the price is higher but you get what you pay for guys if you depend on a firearm for self-defense it's really important that you don't go it alone i've been a member of the uscca or the united states concealed carry association for over four years and it really gives you peace of mind the uscca was founded to help you understand laws and self-defense education they offer industry-leading training and to me one of the most important features is they offer self-defense liability insurance they have a 100 percent risk-free money-back bulletproof guarantee i'll have an affiliate link down below in the description and guys when it comes to a self-defense situation with uscca you have a friend be strong be of good courage god bless america long live the republic [Music] [Music] [Music] kimber k6s 357 magnum target revolver let's check the quality of this firearm and then it has six plus has six in the magazine it's in the magazine and guys it is a beautiful handcase i keep saying beautiful i keep saying beautiful beautiful beautiful we really appreciate fiocchi for sponsoring the ammo ammo we got a ammo here sounds like something you would call your grandma grandma hey ammo [Music] mama the kimber 357.

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Length: 17min 16sec (1036 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 12 2021