tell me about h&k

made it down to the toy store today, and spotted an h&k usp 40 (used) on the shelf. i don't know anything about h&k, but did note this one did not have a threaded barrel, and i don't think it was a compact.

i know h&k has a stellar reputation, but this one was priced at $630, and came w/ 4 10-round mags. for that money, i'd probably just buy sig, or even save a buck and get a glock (i have both sigs and glocks already), unless i am missing out by not having an h&k in the inventory?

appreciate any thoughts, fellas...

Dak;

I've got an H&K USPc in .40 as my daily carry gun.  The main reason I picked the H&K is that the company has built a very left-friendly gun.  That purchase was over ten years ago now & the company has only continued to make even left friendlier guns.  However, there are other reasons to seriously consider an H&K too.

For instance, I have an older H&K catalog from about the time I bought the gun, I'll send it to you if you'd like.  On page three, lower right corner, is a little box detailing an experiment H&K made.  They deliberately lodged a bullet in the barrel of the test gun.  Then they fired a cartridge into the obstructed barrel.  Which didn't blow up, but that wasn't the object to begin with.  They then cleared the barrel & fired a test group for accuracy out of the same gun.  Which measured under 2.5" at 25 meters.  That's a pretty stiff test not only of accuracy, but of structural integrity too.

I've been using this gun for around 12 years now.  No problems, zero, none.

900F

Big Al;

Look at the side of the slide that has the S/N.  Towards the muzzle, you'll see the antler cartouche, and in front of that there should be a code group.  Most cases, the code group is a two letter designator.  Give me the code group & I'll tell you when your gun was made.

900F