HK P7 GRIPS HOW TO
The P7 family uses a Squeeze Cocker design. The P7 is a single stack 9mm with an "8+1" magazine. OK, in addition to the three points above about 'geometry'. I had hoped to get a 'volume discount' on the paperwork, but they said it costs them the same and wouldn't budge.Įnough rambling, What's Special About a P7? This latter one startled me at first, but upon reflection makes some sense why should they forego $100-150 in profit and enable me to undercut them? I settled on my local pawnshop, who I've done business with many times (though relatively few firearms transactions). After trying to contact some of the lower priced ones I grew frustrated by two things: some were more or less 'unreachable' and others refused to do transfers for guns that they were capable of getting wholesale. In my search for an FFL (Gunbroker has a search by zipcode feature), I found pricing varying from maybe a low of $20 to a high of $50 per gun, per transaction.
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Pretty much anything that qualifies as a "firearm" (a P7 certainly does) can't be shipped direct to you from the retailer, unless you happen to hold a Federal Firearms License (which essentially allows you to buy & sell guns as a business at the retail level). The gun world works in mysterious ways.Īlong the way, I also learned a few things about interstate FFL transfer. Upon receipt, I was a little startled to realize the importer was PW Arms in Redmond, which is the next town over from me. I contacted him directly and negotiated to buy several from him for between $700-750 each, getting discounts for taking his 'blems' and one that was missing the cleaning brush.
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Included box, cleaning tool, manual (german), all the usual stuff. He was offering them for $750 or so starting bid with two magazines each. I found a guy out of Waterville, MN on Gunbroker who had picked up fifty HK P7s that were supposedly German police issue and returned to the factory for refurb. One that an average non-gun person could pick up loaded and not fire it accidentally. When we're entertaining, I "police up" the weapons and lock them away, but I still have to allow for the odd niece or nephew dropping by, so my thoughts turned to weapons that were inherently a little safer than say the typical double-action revolver. I started thinking that our childless household and how we're good candidates for leaving loaded weapons scattered around in various places. I have a wife who is not an enthusiastic shooter, but who is ready for a gun in her nightstand, and who asked me one day, "OK, I'm coming home and I pull into the garage, where's the closest loaded gun?" After a lengthy discussion about safety tactics, "your car is a weapon", not getting boxed in, etc. I came away with the general impression, Damn, that's one sweet gun, but at $1,300 a pop, you can get *two* sweet guns!įast-forward a couple decades. I scored very well with that gun the first time I shot it. 110 degree angle of grip to barrel is optimal / ergonomic.Single-stack design means the pistol is slim.It points instinctively, probably due to three main factors: That P7M8 was one of the sweetest guns I had ever handled. The next weekend, we headed to the range. One my poker-playing buddies from Texas interjected, "Where I come from, when the guns come out, it means 'game over'."Īnyway, Brawly got over it and joined us for a few hands. You're welcome to come down and join us, but leave the gun at home." I've got some guys over playing poker, and we're all drinking.
I had to tell him, "Brawly, it's not a good time. He called me up all excited on a Friday night, "Hey! I got it! I want to bring it down and show you!" He was a machinist at Boeing at the time, and he spent his 'bonus' money on a brand new P7M8. Brawly lived upstairs from me in our quad apartment building, and we hung out together. My appreciation for the HK P7 began back in the late 80's, when I was neighbors with a guy named 'Brawly'.
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