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Section 4: Guns/General Subject: Guns That Got Away Msg# 1186614
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Like I said, selling my .45 P9S is one of my few regrets. I did sell a couple of 9mm versions, but meh!
Re: the HK4. Didn't you have a set of each caliber? I'd look in the image gallery but I just made my first cup of coffee (it's pretty early here) and I don't have the energy yet. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: It sounds like the P9S had some good features going for it. Back a few decades ago, Ayoob loved the P9S and wrote it up glowingly many times. Interestingly, he included it in a chapter on H&K pistols in his first volume of GREATEST HANDGUNS of the World, though unlike most other chapters which featured a single pistol*, the H&K chapters covered both the P7s and the P9S. It did have good features. In addition to the "soft shooting" aspect, it was very accurate because of the fixed barrel (it was roller delayed blow back) and polygonal rifling (long before Glock). It came in both Combat Model and Target Model, in .45acp or 9mmP. Supposedly, it was also offered in .30 Luger, but I've never seen or heard of one. I'll confess something you might think is odd. I always thought naming the pistol "P9S" but chambering it in both .45ACP and 9mm was a bit strange, as having a number in the model name tends to make people, some people at least, think the number refers to caliber. I knew from the beginning that wasn't the case as I was familiar with the .45ACP version, but still, I always thought "9mm," briefly, when hearing that name. That's understandable. But this was a pistol from back in the day (early to mid'70s intro), and it was H&K who never followed rules or naming nomenclature. Like I said, selling my .45 P9S is one of my few regrets. I did sell a couple of 9mm versions, but meh! Harvey |
But of course. Nines are a dime a dozen. 
If you follow the H&K model names for pistols when they first began, there was the HK4, P7 (don't know what happened to 5 and 6?), then the P9 (single action only) and the P9S (no 8?).