Kimber 9mm manual#

This combined with the dual green tritium rear sight posts makes for an intuitive, effective sight picture.īut if you’re like me and want something even faster than iron sights, Kimber offers a second model of the gun with a pre-installed Crimson Trace reflex sight using a Shield-pattern footprint. On top of this slide, the Mako ships with a set of tritium post and notch iron sights with a bright orange ‘donut’ front sight post that makes sight acquisition very quick in any lighting condition. As far as why they would do so, I can only guess that they intend to add additional hotter chamberings in the future, such as 40 S&W The Mako’s ejection port is very interesting and suggests more potent calibers may be on the horizon. Reminiscent of the Walther PPK, the engineers at Kimber presumably incorporated this feature to strengthen the Mako’s slide.

One of the first things experienced shooters will notice about the Mako, is its fully enclosed ejection port. Kimber R7 Mako 9mm Subcompact Pistol Features

Kimber 9mm manual#

IMG Jim GrantĪdditionally, the R7 lacks any sort of manual safety, instead opting for a bladed safety trigger which prevents accidental discharges unless the blade is depressed before pulling the trigger. The Kimber Mako uses a bladed trigger safety instead of a manual one. This is because the central tower acts as a guide for the magazine into the well. While this design is done primarily to reduce the magazine, and thus the overall pistol’s size, it has the added benefit of making reloads very easy even under low-light conditions. The pistol includes two of these magazines in the box – one with a flush-fitting baseplate, and a second 13-round version with an extended baseplate. It feeds from an 11-round stagger-column box-type magazine that tapers at the top into a center-feeding tower. The R7 is a locked-breech, semi-automatic pistol chambered in 9mm parabellum.

Kimber R7 Mako 9mmĭespite a somewhat unusual outer appearance, the R7 Mako is a fairly conventional design. So does the new Mako rule the waves, or is it just chum in the water? We take a closer look at the Kimber R7 Mako and find out. Meaning Kimber is going to have to really hit it out of the park with the Mako to regain consumers’ trust. The Kimber Mako ships with two magazines – a flush-fitting 11-rounder, and an extended 13-round mag.