Also, on a personal note, I'm primarily a revolver shooter and almost always shot in single action. Seems most of the semi-auto 9s I have shot have had either very long or heavy trigger pulls, how does the H&K compare and will the different action be hard for me to adjust to?
My thinking is the squeezer will be replacing cocking the hammer on a revolver.
Yes, the squeeze cocker is the equivalent of cocking the hammer...although it doesn't have a hammer, but a striker.
It takes a fair amount of pressure (I forget the lbs. of force, but it's enough to ensure it's not done accidentally, but not so much as to be at all difficult), but is very easy to hold cocked once achieved. The trigger pull at that point is excellent. (Also, as an aside...if, under stress, one pulls the trigger, and then squeezes the squeeze cocker, the pistol will still discharge. It doesn't matter in what order you do it)
Due to the great trigger, the fixed barrel, and just the fact that it's an H&K...it's phenomenally accurate. It is the finest "duty" (non-match or target grade) semi-auto pistol I've ever fired...the only pistols that I would put in a similar category in terms of duty weapon semi-autos, would be the Walther P-5 and P-88. But since they're both DA/SA...it's probably not an apt comparison.
Wow! A H&K P7M8, *and* a Sig P210? Never had the pleasure of shooting a P-210...but it could still happen!
I had someone else recently tell me that the prices that
horsemanhp suggests may be accurate. I was a bit taken aback, and had some difficulty believing that they had increased that dramatically. I did some checking after speaking with this other person...and like you, I found prices all over the place. I would kind of prefer that they weren't quite so valuable...because now I'm looking at the half dozen or so in my safe...one P7M13, in the original box, with only a couple hundred rounds through her, with no import marks...one P7K3, in .380, with only 50 rounds fired, and all original box and accessories, and some assorted M8s and PSPs...and thinking of what I might possibly be able to sell them for, and what I could do with that money! Augghhh! I do have one of those "milled slides" ex-police pistols with logo/emblem removed, that was mentioned earlier...I could always keep it, and enjoy shooting it. Anyway...
Someone mentioned the squeeze cocker action, and how one either loves it or hates it...and I suppose that's true. But, if you end up loving it...it's an amazing pistol, and there's nothing else quite like it. Oh, one other thing...if your style of shooting involves magazine after magazine, of rapid fire...be forewarned that, due to the gas delay system of the P7, the area just above the trigger guard gets quite warm during rapid fire strings...because there is hot gas channeled through that area, delaying the opening of the slide. The PSPs were the biggest offenders, the later M8s and others had a heat shield installed right above the trigger area. It still gets warm. So, some people don't like how warm it gets. I definitely have noted it, but it never bothered me enough to offset how much I love it otherwise. I never did manage to get a P7M10, in .40 S&W, or any P7 in nickel finish. They've always been SOOOO expensive!
But I cleaned it real good before he got back in-country. I loved the way it shot. It was extremely accurate. I've always wanted one, but never found one at the price I was willing to pay.
