The US military has adopted several different autoloading pistols in the 20th century, some more prominent than others. In this video I choose what I think was the worst handgun purchase the US military made in the 20th century and explain why. This does not include special/one-off firearms procured by individual USSOCOM members or units, or other special operations groups.
VIDEO HERE (16:22 minutes)
I've got an HK Model 23. He's right. It's bulky, heavy, and has a terrible trigger pull.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's exceptionally well engineered and completely reliable. You can miss targets all day long with this thing and it will never fail to feed.
Paid a bunch for it. It was a mistake.
HK's company motto ought to be:
ReplyDelete"H und K, because you suck, and we hate you. Now give us half your income."
Anything with 'HK' stamped on it is *stupidly* overpriced. I have a MP5 clone that I converted to a SBR, and I swear to God I spent more for the Surefire fore end and the A3 collapsing stock than I did for the freaking gun.
This is what I fondly think of when people remind me of H&K's arrogance:
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The only experience I with was years ago with a friends P-7 the point of which I did not get. I seem to remember that it had a magazine ejector spring and a weird grip safety both of which were solutions looking for a problem. I also seem to remember that you could hold down the trigger and squeeze the grip safety to fire it but I can't remember why you would do that.
ReplyDeleteDuring the 1970s, I had the bright idea to standardize our group with VP70z pistols.
ReplyDeleteThe ultimate in simplicity with four parts, they had a both-trigger-fingers DAO trigger-pull of around twenty pounds.
Part-way through the 18-round magazine, my hands trembled so bad, my arm-length groups opened from about a foot to a yard-and-a-half.
I may be exaggerating, but only a little...
The VP-70: "It's H&K! What a wonderful design and well-produced!"
DeleteHi Points which are exactly the same thing: "What a cheap POS!"
I always liked my 92FS. I bought it when I was a youngster (close to 30 years ago), and it always shot well. I can't argue with any of his points though.
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