September 16, 2012, 03:32 PM | #1 |
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H&K P7M8 still available?
Have heard the H&K P7 has been discontinued? Anyone know why? I have heard
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September 16, 2012, 03:59 PM | #2 |
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Welcome to the Asylum...
Yes... not made for several years now. "Used NIB" you will pay $1500 and up. I carried one for over 10 years. They are all steel and weigh quite a bit for a 4" barreled gun. They stopped making them because, they were expensive to make, expensive to sell and had a limited range of customers. Like the original SIG P210... either you are a fanatic, or you think they are a lot of money for a 9mm handgun. If you've never shot one, they are a unique manual of arms and should be the only gun you carry... not switched around with other systems. No one makes a handgun presently with all the features of the P7 design: Low bore center, squeeze cocking striker fired-short single action trigger, gas retarded blowback operation. I'm not going to tell you not to, 'cause I loved my P7M8, but you'll probably be better off with a modern, "low bore center" handgun like a Steyr M8-A1 or Caracal. The low bore center of the P7 is, arguably, it's best feature. Cheers, C
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HK USA....
The HK P7m8 & P7m13(the larger 13rd 9x19mm) have been out of US sales for about 10 years. 2000-2002.
The HK P2000 & P30 pistols have replaced it. A .380acp model was also produced but only in Europe/overseas. A few P7 9x19mm pistols, LNIB or factory new(unused) can be found at places like GunsAmerica.com but they retail around $900-2000.00 USD. Clyde |
September 16, 2012, 07:54 PM | #4 |
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My HKP7M8 is lazer accurate, great sights, great trigger, thin and compact, extremely safe with squeeze cocker design, fixed barrel.
On the downside there are handguns the same size that carry twice as many rounds and weigh much less and cost one half to one third as much, also even though my newer HKP7M8 has the heat shield in the top of the trigger guard, it does get very hot after four or five magazines in a row at the range, and the biggest downside of all this gun and it's magazines were never cheap and now that it is no longer made and older models are no longer being sold at CDNN, you will be looking at paying a premium on GunBroker. Still worthwhile to get, it is a cool handgun. A couple of other single stack 9mm favorites of mine are the HKP9S, extremely accurate and a trigger that breaks like glass, and the Walther P5 Compact with left side eject.
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H&K was "out of the box" (and sometimes still is) for several years.
The VP70Z/M had one of the worst triggers, in one of the most advanced handguns ever made... the first polymer framed handgun, which predated Glock by over 10 years. The P9, in addition to using a roller locking mechanism similar to the G3 rifle has, and in particular the P9S Target/Match model, on of the most beautifully crisp and light single action trigger pulls ever in a production gun. The original P7 PSP, P7K3, M8, M10 and M13 were equipped with all of H&Ks "eggs in one basket" so to speak. The prototype .45ACP P7M7, of which there were, arguably, only 6-7 made, had a unique hydraulic slide buffer. P7 lovers would, literally, kill for one of these guns. The P7K3 had the bonus of caliber interchangeability in .22, .32ACP and .380ACP and a (simpler than the M7) hydraulic slide buffer in place of the gas-retarding piston of the larger, production guns.
I sold my entire H&K collection when I developed colon cancer... I should be sad, but as I sold them all for 2-3 times what I paid for them, and I'm still alive, I'm not that sad. Cheers, C
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September 16, 2012, 09:12 PM | #6 |
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HK P7m10....
I nearly forgot about the rare "10" version or the .40S&W caliber P7(10mm).
I think these .40 type P7s were rolled out to work with the 10mm & .40S&W format MP5s(MP10s) that used the larger round. The FBI SWAT & HRT(Hostage Rescue Team) were the only major US police units to really push for a 10mm MP5 format. Author Tom Clancy wrote often about the 10mm's use in HK weapons in many of his 1990s era novels. Clyde |
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I worked at Shooters World in Phoenix in the early 90s when the P7M10 came out. The first one we got, which we had for less than a day, had a "standard sized" slide. H&K made, according to some, less than 300 of these guns... personally, I think far fewer than that... and I also think we never should have received the one we did. The owner took the gun out of inventory 2 hours after it hit the display case... and we never saw it again. If you ever see a P7M10 "slim slide"... just buy it, and don't ask questions. Know what I mean? The first "fat slide" P7M10 we got 2 weeks later... was a top heavy, ugly, clunky to shoot POS. H&K jumped the shark with that gun... they should have developed a dedicated recoil system for the gun instead of the stop-gap, brick they went with. All IMO of course... but I know a whole lot of P7M10 owners, and without exception, the guns are investment safe queens. As the P7 is history, it's all kinda moot now. I just wish they would have brought the P7M7 to market with the expensive hydro buffer... even at an early 90's price of (the H&K estimated) $1400, I think it would have done OK. C
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Geez, Creeper, What a great post!
I have owned those guns for years and I learned more from your post about those discontinued HK handguns than from years of shooting them. While I enjoy the new guns, there is something about the old discontinued HK and Walther, Luger, Sig like the old P210 models, Colt and Smith and Wesson handguns, just to name a few, that makes the newer guns seem a little rough around the edges or at least without any character. Glad you beat the colon cancer and are still alive and kicking!
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My "perfect European handgun collection" always begins with a first series CZ75, SIG Model 49, SIG P210-6, H&K P9S Target, H&K P7M8, Walther P5, Walther P88 and of course, a Belgian Browning Mk.III Hi Power. With the exception of the SIG 49 which I learned to appreciate later in life... these are the guns of my younger, more glorious days. Quote:
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When the 40S&W came out many less than bright companies just assumed you could take a 9mm and replace the barrel to make a .40. They didn't seem to understand that the .40 was a more powerul cartridge and some other changes had to be made .For the most part it needed about 3 ozs more weight in the slide .
H&K first developed a slim slide but felt it wouldn't last forever so made the standard heavier slide .I didn't know the slim slide ever reached the market. Well I've got the heavier one and love it so I guess I'll keep it !
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Creeper, I know little about the p7 series of guns but I remember reading that the m series also had a heat shield of some kind. Not sure if it was for frame protection or slide protection. I have seen some p7's with blued slides that looked as if they had gotten very hot and changed the color.
What do you know about this?
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This is posted in the wrong forum.
Please read this, which you should have read when you registered: http://thefiringline.com/forums/anno...t.php?f=1&a=97 Closed.
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