POTD: The Finest Handgun Heckler & Koch Ever Made
Many consider the H&K P7 to be the finest handgun ever offered by the company, or even of any company. YouTuber LifeSizePotato recently posted a picture of his P7M13 to Imgur, an image hosting/social media site:
The Heckler and Koch P7 is an unusual gas-retarded blowback handgun, which utilizes pressure from the expanding propellant gases to retard the rearward movement of the slide until the pressure drops. The P7M13 is the double-stack variant of the single-stack H&K P7, and was offered to the US Army during the M9 pistol trials.
Nathaniel is a history enthusiast and firearms hobbyist whose primary interest lies in military small arms technological developments beginning with the smokeless powder era. He can be reached via email at nathaniel.f@staff.thefirearmblog.com.
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I loved these handguns. For one or two mags slow fired they're terrific, anything more and they heat up quite quickly and become less than ideal for long range sessions.
Beautiful guns, but a gunsmith I knew didn't like th elooks of the internal parts. he said there were little springs and things thart looked as though they would be prone to breakage.
I'd like to see these guns be re-introduced but with the necessary internal modifications to make them more rugged and possibly at the same time make then less expensive to manufacture so they could sell at a more reasonable price. That said, if I ever find a P& for sale for a good price I wll snap it up so fast nobody will know what happened.