The Grand Inquisitor
October 13, 2004, 12:00 AM
I went to the range to blast off a few rounds during my spare few hours today and as I was getting ready I noticed the guy next to had an SPP, and whenever I see something unusual I always try to get a look at it.
The guy was really nice and loaded up a 30 round mag with 9mm (he had about 7 or 8 mags - those things can't be cheap) and I fired and I have some mixed emotions about the SPP.
First of all, I noticed that the SPP is a beefed up Steyr M series (I have one and am very familiar with it) and the nicest feature about a semi-auto SPP is that of course you can add a silencer or other gear quickly, but also that the pistol is very controlable, and the weight of the gun deflects much of the recoil and makes the jump very light allowing rapid, well aimed shots.
I don't know too much about the SPP, but I almost think that the SPP was designed to actually be the full auto TMP and was designed to be used in large scale self desense/protection situations that require rapid fire to cover something with fire.
From my quick experiance with it, the SPP is a neat pistol, but not really a replacement for a normal pistol that would be used a normal range gun, CCW, or even self defense pistol (although you could pack 30 some rounds into someone dumb enough to pick your house as a robbery target.
The guy was really nice and loaded up a 30 round mag with 9mm (he had about 7 or 8 mags - those things can't be cheap) and I fired and I have some mixed emotions about the SPP.
First of all, I noticed that the SPP is a beefed up Steyr M series (I have one and am very familiar with it) and the nicest feature about a semi-auto SPP is that of course you can add a silencer or other gear quickly, but also that the pistol is very controlable, and the weight of the gun deflects much of the recoil and makes the jump very light allowing rapid, well aimed shots.
I don't know too much about the SPP, but I almost think that the SPP was designed to actually be the full auto TMP and was designed to be used in large scale self desense/protection situations that require rapid fire to cover something with fire.
From my quick experiance with it, the SPP is a neat pistol, but not really a replacement for a normal pistol that would be used a normal range gun, CCW, or even self defense pistol (although you could pack 30 some rounds into someone dumb enough to pick your house as a robbery target.
