Posted: 4/3/2005 10:51:40 AM EDT
| how are these? i am looking at one at a local shop and it feels nice. how is the recoil compared to other pistols? i only have a glock22 .40 and am looking into a new pistol. any reason to get the sd over the regular usp? |
| The USP is a nice piece, especially in 9mm. It has really light recoil and is quite accurate as long as you do your part. The only (good) reason to get and SD would be if you're going to buy a suppressor, if you're not then I wouldn't bother spending the extra money. |
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The HK USP was designed around the .40 so when they made it for the 9mm they had to lighten the slide. So what? The pistol is more robust than it really needs to be for the 9mm and because of that, recoil is so mild you have to feel it to believe it. Whereas the Glock .40 was designed around a 9mm frame and made to fit, and reinforced, for the larger and hotter .40 round. That is why the Glock 40 will seem to kick a lot more than a USP .40 and why a USP 9mm will kick a lot less than the Glock 9mm. As said, if you have no intention of getting a suppressor save your money and get the standard USP. The 9SD is NOT a Tactical. The 9SD does not have the o-ring barrel and it does not have the match trigger parts. The only thing is does have is adjustable target sights and the threaded barrel (and most people using pistols with these target sights change them out to something a lot better if the pistol is going to be used for CCW or low light shooting. The target sights are great for shooting targets in the day time but suck totally for low light combat conditions, and this has always made me scratch my head why HK would put something like that on a Tactical pistol???). Without the intent of using a suppressor you are spending a whole lot of extra money for nothing more than the sights (which you may want to change out anyway) and the "cool" look. |
| That' the damned beauty of the HKs. Right out of the box they are more accurate than 99% of the shooters shooting them, they feed and function with every cotton-picking ammo you can stuff in the mag, and there is really nothing you need to do to them. Sure, you might want a better trigger and have a match trigger fitted but it is far from being a necessity. No polishing of feed ramps, tweeking magazine feed lips, lowering the ejection port, tuning the extractor...need I go on? I have a Para Ordnance P-12 that I have sunk more than twice what a HK costs to make the pistol half as good, and the damned thing will still start giving me FTFeeds after about 150 rounds when the feed ramp gets good and dirty. I have NEVER had to do anything to my HKs to keep them running no matter how dirty the get. |