Beautiful Black Ice: Checking out the New Kimber Rapide

By Chris Eger

The Kimber Rapide (Black Ice) is something of a modern gentleman’s premium M1911A1 with a truckload of features that give you a semi-custom U.S-made gun right out of the box. It pairs nicely with a nice folder like a Case Gunstock. (All photos: Chris Eger)
A unique take on the M1911A1 platform, Kimber‘s new Rapide Black Ice series handguns are new to the market and loaded with premium features that come standard.
Introduced to the public last November when the company unveiled its 2020 catalog and present at SHOT Show this year, the Rapide is now headed to market. With a name familiar in Europe commonly used for a fast express train– and a popular Aston Martin model– the Rapide is billed by Kimber as a 1911 platform built for speed and is both competition and range ready.
The pistol is feature-rich including stepped cocking serrations, slide lightening cuts, a DLC coated barrel for extreme durability, extended magwell, and new V-Cut match-grade trigger. It also comes with Tru-Glo TFX Pro Day/Night sights and G10 grips.
We have been evaluating an early production model over the past few weeks. The new Rapide comes in a choice of .45ACP, 9mm, and 10mm, and we went with

Source: Guns.com