Choices of small handguns

[Black Unicorn]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cypherpunks at lne.com [mailto:owner-cypherpunks at lne.com]On
> Behalf Of Matthew Gaylor
> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 11:12 PM
> To: Tim May
> Cc: cypherpunks at lne.com
> Subject: Re: Choices of small handguns

Mr. May indicates:

> >* H&K P7, the famous "squeeze-cocker." I had wanted one of these
> >since reading about them in 1980, so when H&K was selling a bunch of
> >reworked and remarket P7s at a good price ($550 or so), I bought
> >one. Very elegant, very unusual. Mine is in 9mm. Very safe, but
> >takes a bit of getting used to.
>
> Click, clack is how I describe the P7.  I wouldn't want to reveal my
> position to say a burglar with such a pistol-  Any of the other
> pistols mentioned along with other conventional DA/SA pistols seem to
> be a better choice.

Not that this has even a touch of relevance to cp's but-

I refuse to use anything else.

Ancient German P7 secret:

You can decock the pistol silently by disengaging the squeeze cock mechanism
under the trigger guard and flush with the depressed squeeze-cocker with the
thumb on your free hand and slowly releasing pressure on the cocker.  It's
pretty easy to engage the cocker silently as well, but why bother?  I
consider it like a set trigger.  It only gets cocked when the target is
acquired, identified and in the sights anyhow.  If you really need that
first shot to be deadly quiet you can hold the trigger down while you prowl
and use the squeeze cocker as the trigger instead.  (Sort of like a Steyr
SSG set trigger).  They are interchangeable.

You can pound them to death and they deliver first shot accuracy every time.
I put my first one literally through the wringer as a tester before buying
my second.  I doubt my torture testing was as official as the series done on
the p7s by the German army, (which includes an encounter with an APC) but I
was awfully satisfied.  They chew up +P+ ammo with ease.

They are one of the few well manufactured pistols that have properly
balanced tolerances with a fixed barrel and still aren't subject to a lot of
jamming or ammo pickiness.  It loves being dirty and will shoot on and on
regardless of what its been through.  (Fluted chamber helps here).  Combined
with good ammo, like say Golden Saber, the gun, if not the user, will
outshoot about anything that isn't designed specifically for competition
(i.e. impractical for real use).

More importantly it is simply the fastest, most accurate handgun from draw
to target to fire that I've ever used.  Best concealed carry around, in my
view.

Like I said, I don't bother with anything else anymore.