HK P7. Why?

[scootle]

What experience do you have?

What kind of trollish question is that? Offering info to the uninformed always seems to bring out the trolls around here. The article I linked points out the pros and cons of the platform, if you bothered to read it.

PS I own a P7/PSP, how about yourself? :P

[Eddy's Shooting Sports]

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My other issue with the P7 is purely aesthetic. It's like that totally cute petite girl you see on the other side of the counter, but then see her huge *** when she steps out. Nothing wrong with a substantial, healthy butt, but it just looks funky when she's a size 2 from the waist up. That sums up the P7's looks for me.

I find that analogy really amusing. Have you ever been to Germany? Your description represents the body shape of a LOT of German women. Smallish up top, with, shall we say, robust hips.

Me likes.

On a more technical note, what I really admire about the P7 is how HK basically took a clean sheet of paper with some basic requirements in mind and developed a totally revolutionary pistol. It has virtually no influence from the designs of John M Browning, save for the basic barrel in a slide on top of a grip holding a magazine. Low lying Fixed barrel, coaxial mainspring, gas retarded blowback, squeeze cocker, integrated slide release, high feed angle, positive magazine ejection, three dot sights, and the list goes on. All pretty new stuff in the 70's.

I have a P7 (PSP) from the late seventies I got from my dad. It is a very early gun and the slide has turned a nice deep purple. My other is a P7M8 that I wanted to buy back years ago from a customer that was returning to Japan. We had treated him very well during his time playing with guns in the US and the last gun he was going to part with was his beloved P7M8. He gave it to me. I was dumbfounded by his generosity, but gained an important insight about how Japanese businessmen operate.

I will never sell either of my P7's.

[Tarn_Helm]

I thought everyone would recognize that line. I can't believe someone here hasn't seen Star Wars IV

"Star Wars IV?"

I refuse to call it that.

There can be only one . . .



(Another "cultural" reference for those of us in the "older" crowd.)

As for the P7: When I win the lottery, I'll buy a shopping bag full of them and a bag full of 13-round mags.

[9mmepiphany]

There can be only one . . .



(Another "cultural" reference for those of us in the "older" crowd.)

I prefer Duncan to Conner...better hair and more refined movement style

[J-cat]

What kind of trollish question is that? Offering info to the uninformed always seems to bring out the trolls around here. The article I linked points out the pros and cons of the platform, if you bothered to read it.

PS I own a P7/PSP, how about yourself? :P

Had a P7M8.

So why are you getting so defensive? Why are you calling troll before you even hear what I have to say? Got a short barrel complex or something?

[fiddletown]

I prefer Duncan to Conner...better hair and more refined movement style

Yes. Definitely Duncan.

And Duncan and Mary Ann would make a nice couple (with matching P7M8s).

[Mac Attack]

I have owned 5 P7 variants (2 P7PSP's, 2 P7M8's and a P7M13) and carried my P7PSP for several years. Unlike a lot of people I could not shoot them very accurately and sold them all off right here on this forum. They are great guns and I was fortunate to pick them up for crazy cheap prices and turn them around for over double what I paid for them originally, but they just were not for me.

I found them to be overly heavy for a 8 shot 9mm and they were regulated to the safe in lieu of my 1911's or Glocks.

[Vickers_1]

The reasons I bought one were:

- Mechanical marvel
- Low bore axis
- Fixed barrel
- Semi-exotic
- Superlative build quality
- It's HK

[LAKings22]

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