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New HK45 Compact
- Thread starter richgetsy
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WOW very neat!
Shoot it yet?
Shoot it yet?
i call first dibs if you decide to sell it!!!!
I love my full size. I imagine that you will love the compact
Sweet pickup!
Fooped
Resident HK Guru
Incorrect info. For the seventy billionth time:
NO HANDGUNS ARE BANNED IN MASS!
(With a couple of notable AWB exceptions)
It is simply illegal for a DEALER to transfer this gun to an end user. It is perfectly legal to own (as is clearly shown by the OP stating that he owns one in Mass).
Moreover, the testing that happens via the EOPS does NOT require "hundreds and hundreds of guns". Far from it. 5 to 10 units IIRC.
Please do not spread misinformation as the AG and her cronies lurk here routinely.
LR308_GNR
NES Member
Because you always post up handguns that most of us cannot get our stinking hands on!
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By the way... still loving that LW Operator!
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richgetsy
NES Member
Glad to hear you still like & have the LW operator. I'll get some range time this weekend, i'll post a report. The grip is longer than the Glock 36 & 30. It's slim like the 36, but has 2 back straps to fit different hands. I like the feel of the medium back strap, nice grip. I like it better than the USP45 compact.
RE: HK45C
I've only put about 200 rounds through it - but it is a fine and astonishingly accurate handgun. Make sure you completely remove ALL the shipping grease from the inside of the slide. I originally left a little in there after my range trip and first clean, and started having failure to eject events with 185gr ammo in the second hundred rounds. I guess the spring is pretty stiff (marginal with 185 gr. even when everything is right), and even a little grease in that slide channel will cause slide timing problems and an ocassional hang-up. Once I completrely degreased the slide - problem gone.
Most of this info was from the HKPro site - lots of good stuff and people there. I got the V1 with the de-cocker and I like that a lot. Break-down without tools is a snap, and the mags are also easy to disassemble and clean. Only issues so far are 6 failure to ejects, and 1 failure to lock open on last round (after 200 rounds) - again, both I think caused by the grease/slide timing issue. I'll post again after the next 200.
Jim
I've only put about 200 rounds through it - but it is a fine and astonishingly accurate handgun. Make sure you completely remove ALL the shipping grease from the inside of the slide. I originally left a little in there after my range trip and first clean, and started having failure to eject events with 185gr ammo in the second hundred rounds. I guess the spring is pretty stiff (marginal with 185 gr. even when everything is right), and even a little grease in that slide channel will cause slide timing problems and an ocassional hang-up. Once I completrely degreased the slide - problem gone.
Most of this info was from the HKPro site - lots of good stuff and people there. I got the V1 with the de-cocker and I like that a lot. Break-down without tools is a snap, and the mags are also easy to disassemble and clean. Only issues so far are 6 failure to ejects, and 1 failure to lock open on last round (after 200 rounds) - again, both I think caused by the grease/slide timing issue. I'll post again after the next 200.
Jim
That's for each firearm. If the MFR changes the color, new test. Each test costs approximately $15,000, plus the 5 (minimum) guns, with an additional $5,000 for each change (as in having a blued model and a stainless model).
If you are Smith and Wesson, you have indeed sent hundreds and hundreds of guns to MA for testing.
It's not mis-information so much as an exaggeration as it pertains to HK, but the post gets the point across.
Fooped
Resident HK Guru
It is in fact incorrect info. I wrote this as it pertains to handguns being "banned" in Mass, and that it does not take "hundreds and hundreds" of guns to get any one model approved via the EOPS testing. It's a foregone conclusion that any given large firearms manufacturer could end up sending a hundred+ guns to the state (and thussly the testing labs), if they wanted to get multiple models approved.
Moreover, given that HK currently produces only 13 handguns for the civilian market (This includes the variations), and if they were to send EVERY model and variation to the EOPS labs to test, at 5 to 10 guns per test (As I've been told it's closer to the 5 number), you're looking at 65 to 130 guns total.
That's for the whole civilian line. Hundreds and hundreds of guns, this is not.
S&W makes about 8 million different handguns, so sure, in order to get their entire line tested, it would be hundreds of guns, but they're one of the biggest (if not the biggest) handgun manufacturer in the country.
The reason for my initial post is the utter malarky that gets passed around from time to time, usually mucking up proud acquisition threads like this one.
I apologize for the irony that this very post is unintentionally doing just that, but I have about had it with "That handgun is banned in Mass", and "You can't own that in this state".
YES.I.CAN.
NO.IT.IS.NOT.
BTW, Rich; Nice shooter. I'm thinking of picking one up myself, and sorry for very unintentionally being part of crapping up your thread.
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