It's the gun JMB would have created if he still was alive. It's got very similar geometry to the 1911.
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You can easily go back and forth between H&K's, Springfields, 1911's.......glock has its own special geometry
Not sure if serious. It's like HK has their own special geometry. Particularly in the newer guns. I didn't have much trouble with the USP... but the newer ones? forget it. I can shoot a Glock and 1911s and almost have the same NPOA. If I pick up a P2000, a P30, HK45, my NPOA is pointing the thing at the f**king ground. It took me years to figure that out, too. Not to mention the bore axis between something like a 1911 or a BHP vs an HK45 = two different planets. The HK45 is like a mechanical bull compared to either of those things, based off bore axis alone. (although it is pretty controllable and comfortable to shoot). Every gun HK ever made outside of some of the old ones like the P7M8/13 etc, have laughably high bore axis. That isn't always a dealbreaker though, but it clearly is a different geometry.
Glocks I point slightly high but if I force my hands out to where they're supposed to be, the sights drop right into place. With HK45 etc I unnaturally have to roll my wrists back and heel the stupid thing to bring the sights up.. Except for my P7M8, that thing was dead on.
If I pick up my Dan Wesson Specialist (1911) the sights are dead on. my HK45 was on its own little planet, pointing at the dirt every time I brought the pistol up.
For others reading, at first this is a hard concept to figure out. Grip the gun with a proper grip, rest muzzle on the bench, close your eyes and bring it up to where you think/feel eye level is, then open your eyes and see how far off the sights are. That gives you a rough idea of what your NPOA is.
I think it depends on the geometry and size of ones hands more than anything else. There are a lot of people who simply cannot hold Glocks properly without the gun either beating them up, or they have issues maintaining NPOA with them. That's why we have lots of alternatives on the market that might work better. Like an HK, or an XD, etc. Or for people who enjoy masochism, the S&W
M&P.
The HK is a competent handgun when it comes to accuracy and reliability though, can't fault it there. Those guns are built like
brick shithouses. My NPOA/boar axis/SCHOOL BUS issues aside, if someone asked me "What brand has the absolute highest out of box reliability?" I'd be like "HK, hands down, 7 days a week and twice on sunday". As someone who owned over 26 handguns at one time, in a previous life, out of the "fleet" the HKs had the least problems and least amount of required replacement parts vs rounds fired, with old school Sigs being right next to them.
-Mike
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