Dang it Flyer!!!
You get me in trouble on this site!!! :x
I finished with my client early this afternoon. So, I stopped by one of my regular gun stores at my next stop. Guess what they had in the case? A brand new H&K P7M8 -- with a $1475 price tag. I just HAD to look at it -- and FEEL it. No, I didn't buy it -- but in discussion with the store owner, I brought up the German Police trade-in P7PSPs......a grin appeared upon his face and he walked to the back without saying a word.
He reappeared a few seconds later carrying a box and a nice sized plastic bag. Down on the counter is placed a black plastic box marked HKP7 -- inside is what looks like a brand new, never issued P7PSP. I mean there wasn't a mark on it -- except where they put a line through BMI on the slide (didn't penetrate the metal -- looks like something a penny would remove) -- and the opposite side of the frame has PW Arms, Redmond, WA nicely inscribed in gold-tone.
I couldn't even tell if it had been fired after it left the factory! Inside the box was the original manual (in German), the original target from the factory with what looks like an 8-shot no larger than 3" group fired from 25m (27.3 yards), a cleaning brush that has never seen solvent or the bore, an extra 8-rond magazine, and a takedown tool.
The clear plastic bag contained a black leather duty holster, a second belt loop for the holster (for use when wearing a uniform jacket to hold the gun outsde the waistband of the jacket), a magazine pouch, and a new-in the package trigger lock.
He told me the price -- which was a little higher than what I thought would be the normal add-on to the $645 in Shotgun News. He dropped his price by $125 and threw in a box of Federal P9HS1 ammo (I lamented that I only had .40 S&W and .380 with me on this trip

).
Do you think I bought it?? Heck YES!!!!
It is sitting here on the desk in the hotel room with me as I type. What an awesome buy! Even though it only has the 8+1 capacity, I can already tell that I am in LOVE with this pistol. You gotta get one!! (it was less than half the price of the brand new P7M8...including all the goodies and ammo).
My only regret is that no indoor range exists in this city. It will be going with me on the rest of my trip -- taking a ride on Delta Airlines tomorrow morning.
I am a happy -- but "fun money" exhausted boy tonight!!
A range report will follow in the next week or so...