Jeff,
Junky triggers? Not quite. The single action trigger is decent. Not great, but certainly not junky .
I've owned one and shot a few dozen. Sold a couple of hundred more. The triggers on them were all junky. The only way you could say they
weren't junky is if you didn't know what a good trigger felt like.
Cheap, injection molded frames? What do you mean by cheap?
I mean that plastic squirted into a mold is a cheap way to make frames, even if Hans
und Franz popped the finished product out of its injection mold with their highly-trained precision teutonic hands.
Normally injection molding is done to make manufacturing cheaper, yet apparently it costs more for HK to injection mold a frame than for other companies to mill one out of raw carbon steel forgings. Go figure...
Tolerable accuracy? The USPs are well-regarded as having very decent out of the box accuracy, including mine.
I guess if "decent" accuracy is good enough for you, then you'll be right happy.
Indifferent fit & finish? Not sure what you mean by that.
I mean that the gun exhibits indifferent levels of fit and finish. To wit: tool marks, flash-molding lines, stamped sheet metal bits,
et cetera.
Price tags...? Why, because you don't like them and think they are over-priced? I'd say for the amount of performance and reliability and DURABILITY (ie lifespan) you get in a USP, they compare favorably with ANY handgun at any reasonable price-point.
As far as "lifespan" goes, the 105 year-old revolver I shot in the back yard yesterday has it all over any gun made of stampings and dinosaur juice. As far as reasonable durability goes, I'll take tool steel over plastic any day. There are plenty of WWII relics out there still shooting with all their original parts in them. Hell, there are plenty of guns
older than that still shooting with all their original parts in them.
I can understand needing to take manufacturing shortcuts in the modern labor and materials environment to turn out a reasonably affordable handgun that will be durable and reliable over a reasonable service life, but a USP Expert, SIG GSR, and a Les Baer Concept I all cost within a few bills of each other: 100 years from now, two will still be shootable and one will be recycled into milk crates...
I ain't some fankid touting my favorite brand. HK, Glock, Beretta, SIG, Kimber, Springfield, Colt, S&W,
et cetera,
ad nauseum, I've owned a lot of 'em over the past two decades. Most of 'em are fine pistols; I just get ill when someone starts off with the ol' Errornet cliches:
"SIGs are rustbuckets!"
"Glocks blow up!"
"1911's jam!"
"USP's break firing pins!"
"1911's are the best!"
"Glock perfection!
"HK means No Compromise!" (Hint: Us P7 fans refer to the USP as the Universal Sellout Pistol.
)
Yadda, yadda, yadda.
They
all suck, and they
all rule. Get it?