Anyone have experience with them? From what I've seen there's one by Kimber and another by Advantage Arms. I really really want a 1911, but at the same time I recognize the need for a 22lr for practice and getting a kit would be a work around waiting for another permit for a dedicated gun.

i have seen conversions by colt older and les baer..a couple on gb this week.kimber's is a nice quality.....also several off brand manuf. make them...do a google search

I have a Springfeild 1911 and the Kimber .22 conversion slide fits perfect.

Price is around $300 and it has adjustable sights,comes in black or silver.

I have a Kimber 17 Mach II conversion kit on my Colt Govt model and it's a blast shooting it.

Nice. Reason I asked was because originally I was going to hold off and save up for a Springfield 1911 and just get a Sig Mosquito for practice. Then I saw the Rock Island Armory M1911 series which is cheap and has had some really positive reviews. I can actually afford one of these on a single paycheck and have money left over! So I started considering if I should get a 22lr conversion kit for it instead of getting a dedicated 22 semi-auto. I wouldn't require additional permits and the 22lr kits are cheap compared to the 1911's out there.

Ronoverdrive: I qualify applicants at my club and no one yet has been able to qualify with the Mosquito even when they could with a 45. You are better off with the conversion kit

I have the AA kit on a hardballer, works very well, target model has adjustable sights and also has last round hold open feature which most other conversion kits do not have.

Kimber .22 conversion has been great. I think the menual says to use high velocity ammo, but I have used normal velocity ammo without problems. It is very accurate.

I have shot two examples of the Kimber 1911 conversion kit and they worked well with a variety of factory loads.

I would like to get one eventually myself.

Just found out Kimber conversion kit does not like Remington 22 game runs at all. It jammed on me every clip. Most of problem were double feeds. tried tree Kimber factory mags and got the same problem on all three. Never had this kind of problems before and this was the first time I tried Remington. I read some where people complaining about Remington 22, but did not expect to be this bad.