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Posted: 9/7/2016 7:42:36 PM EDT
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I would love to have one, but I just can't justify it.
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Posted: 9/7/2016 8:37:45 PM EDT
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Awesome, can't wait to see pics.
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Posted: 9/8/2016 3:34:23 PM EDT
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I have had mine since the mid 90s. It is an awesome weapon. You have to get a suppressor for it, if you don't have one already. It is a totally different experience suppressed. You will love shooting the MK23. The MK23 was designed from the ground up to dispatch bad people efficiently and quietly in the worst kind of conditions.
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Posted: 9/8/2016 3:52:01 PM EDT
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I would love to have one, but I just can't justify it. Yeah, the HK45c LEM makes more sense to me. |
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Posted: 9/8/2016 7:11:15 PM EDT
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I would love to have one, but I just can't justify it. Yeah, the HK45c LEM makes more sense to me. Yep. That's bout all my budget will allow. |
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Posted: 9/12/2016 3:40:40 PM EDT
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The Mk 23 is a wholly impractical firearm but I still want one really badly. I'm with you, it's a Grail gun.
Congrats on your purchase. |
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Posted: 9/14/2016 1:37:45 PM EDT
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OP says you should have taken delivery on the 9th. Yet here we are, 5 days later and no pictures. You wound us so.........
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Posted: 9/14/2016 8:45:27 PM EDT
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OP says you should have taken delivery on the 9th. Yet here we are, 5 days later and no pictures. You wound us so......... Haha, you got me! I picked it up Friday night and have not had it out to shoot. We have been balls deep moving all week and am wiped out. I know that I owe some photos. I also picked up a USP compact 9 that they had in stock at the same time. Ill send photos of both soon... |
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Posted: 9/14/2016 9:56:44 PM EDT
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Nice. I've been missing my Old USP 9 a lot lately. I put hands on one at a local store this afternoon and I have half a mind to go back and get one in full size in each caliber.
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Posted: 9/16/2016 10:33:22 AM EDT
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There were 6 Mark 23's I the gun store. I didn't handle one because I didn't want to catch the bug, but it looked like they have either a duracote or cerakote on the slide. Is that right?
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Posted: 9/19/2016 12:26:55 PM EDT
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Not sure what the finish is, but everything is coated. I recall my owner's manual warns that the serial number can rust since that is engraved after it is coated. I thought that warning was peculiar/funny
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Posted: 9/19/2016 7:50:14 PM EDT
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It's true though. HK used different finishes on them over the years. I had an early "maritime" finish Mark 23, which the previous owner had laser engraved his name onto the slide. It started rusting there, and at the serial number.
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Posted: 9/21/2016 9:21:17 AM EDT
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There were 6 Mark 23's I the gun store. I didn't handle one because I didn't want to catch the bug, but it looked like they have either a duracote or cerakote on the slide. Is that right? No, I'm pretty sure they're Nitrided or something similar. |
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Posted: 9/21/2016 10:27:01 PM EDT
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For the last decade or so, they've been finished the same as the USP. Early commercial guns (and all guns delivered to SOCOM) had a semi-gloss lacquer finish.
Edit: Came back to post I was wrong... The USP uses the HE finish. Only Mark 23's produced with a tan frame (around 2004) have the HE finish. The original semigloss maritime finish was used from production start to early 2004. After the production run of tan frame HE finish pistols was concluded, HK introduced a different matte finish, which they apparently also call maritime, although it isn't the same as the original lacquer finish. I think all of them are Tenifer treated under the outer finish. The first maritime ones definitely were. |
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