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Originally Posted by alf
Nice rig. I have not shot a P7 but would like to try one out. How is the squeeze cocker? Easy to get used to?
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To me it is totally instinctive. But they seem to be a love-hate gun for some.
I absolutely 100% love mine.
It is the most accurate pistol i have ever fired, bar none. Sigs are a close 2nd. Chalk it up to the fixed barrel and polygonal rifling. The trigger pull is absolutely
exquisite. The grip angle is perfection. The low bore axis makes it a tremendous natural pointer, and helps to keep recoil minimized (the weight of the spoon surely helps here, the P7 is not a light pistol)
It is certainly one of the most reliable auto pistols ever made (it will actually function normally without an extractor because it has a fluted chamber to ease extraction).
Squeeze the grip, cocked. Release the grip....100% safe.
The squeeze cocker is as foolproof a safety system as i have ever seen (of course this is just my opinion). If the gun isn't fully grasped and the front strap squeezed(26lbs to engage, 1.5lbs to maintain) it just will not fire. No disarmed officer in US or German police service armed with a P7 has ever been shot by his own P7...criminals simply don't know that you have to sqeeze the grip with 26lbs of force. That 26lbs of force also renders the gun as inert as a paperweight should, god forbid, a toddler get a hold of it.
It is a brilliant design.
If the gun has a fault, it's the weight. It is all steel, so it is much heavier than contemporary pistols. That being said, all steel pistols last a long, long, long time. The weight is also not at all a problem in either a good IWB or belt slide holster. It's probably a little lighter than the avg. 1911 commander length pistol, so the weight is manageable.
Some would knock the 8+1 capacity of the PSP and M8 (they did make a P7-M13 model that is far too fat for my hand) , but not me. With today's latest generation of maximum pressure hollowpoint 9mm parabellum ammunition it is essentially a 9 shot .357 magnum. 9mm Cor bon, Double Tap and Buffalo Bore ammo all reach well into .357 magnum territory from a ballistics standpoint. I do not consider a 9 shot .357 magnum to be in any way a disadvantage for anything that i will ever be asking of a pistol...
I've lusted after a P7 since the first time i shot one back in the early 90s. It is my favorite handgun of all time. (1911 is my 2nd fave). Muwahahaha now it is mine!
If only they had made an alloy framed model with an integrated picatinny rail...
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Originally Posted by jyl
Well, you know I'm just letting you borrow it :-)
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Hehehe, i'll be "borrowing it" for a looooong time.
