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Discarded Greatness: The Walther P5 9mm Pistol

March 5, 2025May 9, 2022 by Graham Baates

Last month we brought you the Heckler & Koch P7 which Jeremy believes is the best pistol ever made in the history of the world. Now here’s a look at a dearly departed contemporary of the P7, the Walther P5. Born of the same German government request for a modern pistol, the Walther P5 represents … Read more

The Heckler & Koch P7 is the Best Pistol Ever Made

March 5, 2025April 17, 2022 by Jeremy S.

Many of the products you purchase were designed by engineers, but heavily tempered by the demands of the finance and marketing departments. “Make us a product that does X, but we need the total cost to be under Y and it has to fit in this shell made by the art department.” But the Heckler … Read more

An HK P7 and Communism: Everyday Carry Pocket Dump of the Day

February 4, 2019 by Kat Ainsworth Stevens

So…it isn’t the HK P7 that takes center stage this time it’s the Big Black Book of Communism. If you’re thinking this is some sort of how-to guide, it isn’t. It’s a comprehensive work by a group of authors who wanted to get the truth about communism out there. The result was this book which … Read more

HK P7: Everyday Carry Pocket Dump of the Day

January 24, 2025January 15, 2019 by Kat Ainsworth Stevens

This is an interesting one because it features a Heckler and Koch P7, which is a pretty cool pistol. The P7 was billed by H&K as their finest pistol for decades and it is, indeed, a very solid gun. It also has some fairly unique features such as a gas delayed blow-back and a squeeze … Read more

New From LUCID: P7 4x Weapons Optic (plus L5 6-24×50 initial impressions)

January 26, 2015 by Jeremy S.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz1rmRS6Uo8

When the Shaolin Rifleworks guys informed me that the scope I had been using on their AR-10 has an MSRP of just $449, I was pretty darn surprised. The optics of the LUCID L5 6-24×50 were really good, and my initial impression was that I was behind some premium glass that’s beyond what I would personally spend. Shaolin said they were sharing the LUCID booth at SHOT Show and asked me to swing by, so swing by I did. As you’ll see in the video above, the owner of LUCID walked me through their new product for 2015, the P7 4x Weapons Optic. . .

Gun Review: Walther CCP

January 28, 2025January 2, 2015 by Jeremy S.

I love the Heckler & Koch P7, as it offers so many engineering features to geek out over. Some of those features appeared on a handgun for the first time with the P7, only to become ubiquitous thereafter (3-dot sights, for example*). A few of those great features have never been reproduced on another pistol. One of them is the gas-piston delayed blowback system, which hasn’t seen use again until the Walther CCP here** and its resurrection is a big reason why I was so excited to get my hands on this new Walther Concealed Carry Pistol. Does it deliver on Walther’s promises of soft recoil and easy slide manipulation? . . .

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