So I got the thing today and straight away took it to the range.
I brought along the 45 compgun for comparison.
First 11 shots from 18 yards.
I'm only an ok pistol shot for a rifle guy.
I suffer attention deficit when it comes to aiming pistols usually. I never quite remember if I'm aiming the same spot from shot to shot. If it feels close I shoot it.
Here's the overlay 8 shot group from the compgun immediately afterwards.
Felt recoil on both guns was interestingly about the same. I mean aside from the extra Boom of the loads I'm running in the compgun, that was like the difference between a 30'06 and a 223.
But groupwise, right off the bat I could shoot a group about the same as I could with my fullsized Compgun. Not bad for a nubby plastic gun.
Next I shot the black railroad plate. I was impressed how easy it was to just: ping-ping-ping-ping with the HK. To be honest, making hits with a 9mm is like fucking fat chicks, (you don't need much game to do it! - so I'm told) but it wasn't difficult to make hits with this thing even as short and nubby as it felt.
And I could actually hit the railroad plate a quicker with the HK than the compgun, cause the plate didn't really move with the 9mm, but the 200grn loads in the compgun had it swinging all over.
After that I shot the 4 steel plates with each gun from the same 18 yards.
OK:
The 45 compgun was better, but to be fair a steel challenge between these two is like comparing a V8 Corvette to a Honda civic. The Compgun was just better.
Next I went back to 52 yards
It took most of the first mag to figure out where to hold, (there's no bullet splash in the grass)
But Once I found it I made 3 consecutive hits, the 8 more hits out of 10 with the next magazine.
I don't hit any better from that distance with a full-size pistol.
In summary: I fucking like it.
Sure its a 9mm, and sure 9mms are easy to shoot when you only shoot hot 45ACP rounds.
But I can shoot as good with this sawed off subcompact HK as I can with my XDM 9mm or my 45 compguns. And only hits count.
I feel this is definitely an effective little pistol. It's fucking-A.
And the trigger's good too!
With the added optional homosexual comp they make for these
I think it would make a fantastic wife gun! the handle can be made small for smaller hands and that comp seems to work good enough to make even a wife think its not bad. Werd!