8/30/2023 0 Comments Hk p7m8 new jersey state police![]() *Oddball earlier polymer-framed pistols, like H&K's VP70Z, gained no market traction. Army’s XM9 9mm pistol trials in the 1980s to replace the M1911. One model, the P7A13, was even submitted to the U.S. Heavy (all steel) for the capacity, expensive, quickly too hot to hold comfortably for even 50 rounds of rapid-fire (even with the polymer heat-shield above the trigger on the M8, M13 and M40 models), labor-intensive to clean the gas piston chamber and gas piston flanges, complex frame design should service ever become required (even though it never happens), are all negative features, admittedly but "fickle"? No. In the end, the HK squeezebox was only adopted by a few state police agencies, namely New Jersey and Utah. Of those I've owned, I still have the one P7M8 (my very first pistol, ever) originally purchased NIB in '85 for $515, which has since shot uncounted tens of thousands of premium 9mm factory rounds, and has never, not once, ever had a single failure of any kind no failures to feed, no failures to fire, no failures to eject.Īdd to that the consistent, absolutely superlative accuracy & precision of these pistols, and their past and present appeal to a certain segment of the gun buying population isn't difficult to understand. Mas Ayoob rated it as the single most reliable semiauto pistol then available in his book, The Semiautomatic Pistol in Police Service and Self-Defense. The P7 was one of the least "fickle" pistols ever made. Nobody was really buying them anymore.too expensive, too fickle.Expensive, yes, but hardly "fickle". ![]()
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