I shot my friend's new HK USP at the range tonight.

 

I'm not quite sure to feel about this gun.  It's bigger and wider than my Beretta 92FS.  

 

I couldn't figure out how to decock it... and my friend didn't know either until we actually read the manual and realized you push the safety lever down.

 

It shot no differently than my Beretta 92.  It was no more accurate than my Beretta.   

 

The rail is strange.  I think you need an adapter for it if you want to put a flashlight or laser on the thing.

 

The magazine release is a lever by the trigger guard instead of a button like G-d and John Moses Browning intended.

 

Not a bad gun.  But it didn't do anything for me.  It went bang.  It didn't jam.  The trigger was fine and nothing to write home about.  For the price my buddy paid for it, I could have gotten two PX4's.

 

I'm not hating on the gun, but I have a hard time understanding what the gun is *for."  It kind of seems like someone took a P226, made it polymer, added a manual safety and threw it out the door to see if it would stick.

 

Anybody have other thoughts?  It seems to me like you can do everything the USP does in the Glock 19 or PX4 Compact for one third the size and half the price. 

The HK45 is a much better gun to shoot in my opinion. It feels like an extension of your hand. It does not have the stupid proprietary HK rail like the USP. It has a true 1919 picatinny rail.

.45acp is also one of my favorite rounds to shoot. More knockdown power then the 9, but not snappy like the .40

The HK barrels take a ton of abuse and don't fail. You can shoot 45 super and 45 acp +p without an issue.

 

Oversized, dirty or beat up bullets still fire and the gun doesn't explode.

 

They are tough.

 

 

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