I was going to just say my piece and let it drop, but your cute pre-emptive strike now backed by reality denial merits a response.
boats, regarding the tactical poseur statement. The only time I've ever heard it is from a few very select 1911 bigots on this particular board.
Then you must not get around much. There is nothing more amusing in my firearms experience on the internet than to watch Glock, SIG and HK owners snipe at one another all taking and giving occasional pot-shots from and to Walther owners. Yes, it is just 1911 owners mocking a $700 plastic pistol that doesn't add anything but hype to the market. I own more than 1911s so my "bigotry" such as it is, must stem from owning several types of pistols. Heck, having had an HK once, maybe I am really engaged in a bit of self-loathing.
You don't know me, have never met me and know zero about me, so I'll thank you to keep your crass characterizations to yourself. That you repeat it so much, doesn't make it true and frankly I'm a little sick of being labeled by you.
I don't recall my personal attack on you via my relating of what I, and many others, find to be an amusing stereotype of HK owners in general. Jeez, I handle all of the "dinosaur" and "granpa shooter" crap from all quarters with equanimity. I once had a Glock owner sniff at one of my 1911s at the range, calling it "the official pistol of Fred Flintstone." I thought that was funny.
Of all the people I know who own weapons, USPs included, not a single one resembles in any way what you claim all us USP owners to be, except Skunk and he's definitely the tongue-in-cheek poster boy.
Get yerself on over to HKPro then and see for yourself whence the stereotype comes. The obsession with suppression, the sifting and resifting of what special forces units issue HKs and why the rest are too stupid to adopt, the cries about being trumped in the plastic firearms market by Glock, the pedantic fawning over various HK subguns 99.9% of them will never touch, let alone own, the breathlessness over the reports of performance by German Combat Divers,
the daresay I,
elitist opinioneering against things not HK. Yep, none of that exists except in some alternate reality I know and you are not privy to.
Quite the contrary, the only people I've met who resemble evangelical, proselytizing zealots are you and a few of your 1911 bigots.
Awwww. Search my posts here. You will find I have endorsed or recommended many pistols besides the 1911. In fact, I don't remember last when I advised anyone to buy a 1911. Why? I own other pistols than the 1911 and can see their merits believe it or not. I have even confessed to wanting an HK P7M13 if the mag ban dies.
I do advise people not to overpay for marketing hype whether it comes from Germany or a semi-custom 1911 shop here in the states. The P7 is iconic and unique. The USP is for the tactical Walter Mittys who are keen to overpay for something neither unique or special.
In fact, I have seen no other group of people so adamantly try to tear down a particular brand, make or model of weapon anywhere on any board.
Then, like I said, you don't get around much.
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