Well......after picking up our guns from Jackson Armory, our local HK dealer, today was the long awaited VP9 day at the range. All I can say is WOW! These things really are the new standard in a striker fired pistol. We started with a simple 30 round initiation on some 8 steel at ten yards. Painfully easy. We then jumped right in with the LAPD D Platoon A qualification-both Wayne and I shot 98%. I had one called flyer, or it would have been one of the best runs I have had on the course in years. Wayne shot a 3 shot group at ten yards into the NRA logo on our bull targets (photo below of the result). We then jumped in with a Vickers 300. The targets are also shown. This has always been a tough course for me due to all the single hand work. I was down 7, Wayne, only 3. We did some 50 yard work on the 8 steel that became boringly easy. Wayne was so bored with ringing the target that he started working one handed. That was not much of an issue, so he switched to support hand only at 50.......shown in the photo, he center whacked the target just after the picture was taken. We shot a lot, with a lot of different ammunition. There were no malfunctions of any kind. The only issue was losing the left side cocking support on my gun at round #28 (Federal 9mm HST). In a funny way, I was looking at the gun last night thinking that I would like that side removed and flat and the cocking support only on the right side. I just didnt expect it to happen on its own. The test of HK Customer Service.......well have a return tag out immediately. Yea, there is that terrible HK customer service. I think people will find that the one area where HK has done stellar work is fixing the customer service side of the house. I have not had an issue with them in the last decade. On the positive side, these things flat shoot. Wayne and I have both been gone for the last month or more with other work. We were both very rusty, and I have not shot since our last class. To come in totally cold on a new platform, I could not be happier. The trigger is set up in a way that is almost a duplicate in feel for how I have my Glock triggers modified. I like them and it was easy to get used to. Not too light, not too heavy, and a good feel for a service trigger. Mine had a little but of a gritty feel in reset, but it shot better than a couple of the other VP9s that were out there with another shooter. When it goes back for the cocking support, I ll mention it. The only time I noticed was on the real slow reset when working at 50. Stay tuned.....more to come.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 21:11:02 +0000
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