Posted: 8/21/2006 7:25:51 PM EDT
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I had heard that H&K stopped producing these guns but came across one today (16-1335xx). Does this mean they have restarted production? The gun looks perfectly new and has the Trussville name on it. And is "AG" a date code? BTW, does anyone else think Chantilly or Sterling is a much more elegant elegant name for a home office than Trussville? |
No, they are no longer imported into the US. No clue if they were totally dropped from European production or not? You'll still find the occassional rare never been fired one for sale. I was grateful to get the a German Police trade-in model when they hit the market. I was able to save boo-coo dinero by going that route. Many NIB P7M8s now list for $1200.00 & up. They may not sell for that much, but they're being asked for that high. Damn fine guns! |
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Just like everything else with HK, it seems one hand never knows what the other hand is doing. They say they are discontinued but yet they are still making limited runs of them, hence the AG guns showing up. The SOCOM Mk 23 is also supposed to be discontinued but still the colored framed ones keep showing up and are anything but rare. It was said the ss guns were DCed also, but it turns out they are only no longer imported into the US. And the USC and SL-8 are still alive and well overseas. I am about ready to quit trying to figure out what HK is doing or if and when they will do anything, making or DCing them. They seem to contradict themselves at every turn but I would wager if you want a P7-M8, get it while the getting is good. I agree, Arlington, Chantilly, and Sterling are a lot more classy sounding than Trussville. But I do imagine they would be pretty silly choosing a location based only upon the way it sounds. |
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I saw somewhere that they were bringing in approx. 500 w/ the Trussville moniker on it. When I bought one of the "last ones" with an AF date code on it they went for over 1400 dollars here in CA. The Turner's Outdoorsman that I got it from were getting no more in supposedly and if they did they would stick a 1599.00 price tag on it. They'll still be able to sell them out quick here. |
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Yes... there is "AG" P7M8's Trussville AL..... also next to the HK logo is the "JS" in a circle...which is the hunting & sporting section of H&K P7M13 are still imported to Canada.... only thing there is that the dealer needs to pin the mag to a 10 round cap... also no silly import markings on the slide of those... The P7M8 is not DC'ed in Germany and will not as long as it is still in police use... and Bavaria is still using them.... just as the Walther P5 is still in limited production over there since the Dutch/Netherland police and one German "Land" police are still using them.... |
Interesting. I didn't know the Germans used the P7M8, I thought they used the original P7. The story I herd was that H&K had to change the magazine release before any US police force would adopt the P7, and now, the German police use the American style P7M8. |
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Yes at some point they went to the P7M8 also....... remeber how there was all those police trades??? Well there was a lot of M8's with the ugly square mill mark on the slide.... * current models of Walther's in Police service is P99/AS and P99/DAO.... H&K has currently the P2000 and P30 approved for police work over there.....and then there is some Sig's also. Remeber that the Germans buy those in bulk and officers are not allowed to carry their own..... so the "Land" (state) buys one model and all officers are issued that one. |