I am still looking for the holy grail striker-fired EDC pistol. I have a G36 Gen 1 “.45” and a G19 Gen 5.
HK updated the VP9 with two new models, compact and full-size. I bought the compact 4.09-inch barrel. The VP9k fits my hand perfectly due to the swappable grip panels, plus the VP9 shoots way better than my Glock. I feel this might be the Striker-Fired pistol I was waiting for.
My VP9sk is my daily, the different palm swells and back straps made it fit my hand perfectly and the grip angle/slide height brings it up evenly each time I present it.
I still have my G30 but it will always take a backseat to the VP9sk!
My only experience with H&K was the USP40 when my police department switched from the Beretta 92. I hated it as well as much of the department so after 2 years they got rid of them for the Glock 22. I still have that G22 and carry a G27 as my EDC. Maybe it’s time to have a look at this pistol and give H&K another try.
Tough to find a H&K pistols that’s not shooter. And once you get used to it, their mag release system is the best out there, by a long shot. I wish everyone else would adopt it and get rid of the buttons.
I’ve owned a bunch of them over the years in many models and sizes and for a long time a P2000 and a P2000SK where my EDC guns. My only complain, if you can call it that, with H&K guns and SIG P series guns too, except the P365, is the high bore axis which makes the guns feel “flippy” under recoil as compared to Glocks and others. And that’s no big deal to control.
But again they have so many positive qualities that’s it’s impossible for me to think of them as anything other than superb firearms.
If I ever HAD TO go into harms way with a gun I never had a chance to test or break in it’d be a SIG, Glock or H&K. All of them I’ve owned or fired have been 100% with anything I’ve ever fed them right out of the box.
The LEM trigger is not the typical USP trigger. I have 2 USP 45’s. I put the LEM trigger in one.
The one without is the traditional DA/SA with the the option for the long hard first DA trigger pull. It also has the option of carrying cocked and locked.
The LEM trigger is really a system which includes a modified hammer system. Although the hammer is down, the mechanism has a cocked component that brings the hammer to the back position with almost no tension (except the firing pin spring tension and trigger spring tension). This results in a long trigger pull that has hardly any tension, and then a crisp wall. This also results in a SA style short reset if you are firing strings of shots. Once your finger is off of the trigger, the long, very light initial pull is back.
If you fire an LEM trigger, know that without first racking the slide (like you do when loading the first round) it feels like a regular, long and hard DA pull. Therefore, if you are testing an LEM trigger in the shop with an unloaded firearm, you need to rack the slide first to know what the trigger pull is like.