FN Five-Seven

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willyfastz

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Anybody played with the FN Five-Seven yet? Got to shoot one this past weekend, and it was a sweet shooting gun from what little I got to see of it. Wondering if there's any experience with it here?
 
Own one and its a great firearm. It's been discussed here numerous times as Firefighterchen is alluding to.
 
Just be sure to load it with the right rounds. Load it with the wrong ones and you'll be spending time in the iron bar hotel. No SS190, SB193, SS198LF rounds.
 
Hey willy: If you leave out cost (anywhere between $800-1100 depending on lightly used to new (see GunBroker)) the pistol is light weight (for a full size), high capacity (20 round w/extn to 30), lo recoil (a key to me for absolute accuracy), high velocity (accuracy and straight line trajectory over distance) and, depending on who you want to listen to, very lethal. An absolute joy to shoot at the range--almost (not quite) like shooting a 22 target pistol--then again the bullet size at 5.7 is almost a 22 in diameter. I have never had a problem at all. Suggest you go to fnforum.net and/or fivesevenforum.com for lots of discussion. There are 57 alternatives coming out (Masterpiece Arms) for a lot less money ----good? bad? cheap? could not tell you. I can tell you, however, that if you are willing to pay for the fn, you will never look back and enjoy the heck out the firearm.
 
It looks like a great gun, I have handled it, but never had the pleasure of shooting it. Looking at it, it seems to be built right, little to no tooling marks, and very nice pattern. The chambering is unique, 5.7 has the potential to be a+ in accuracy. Eventhough it's not a Glock, I would give it a thumbs up, the 2nd thumb would be up if a G57 was made!
 
I've had mine for a couple weeks. I love it, it's fun to shoot, ammo is cheap enough and it's accurate (after making a little adjustment on the rear site). They claim to shoot two hundred yards with only an inch of drop. Maybe not with the round I'm shooting, but that's pretty impressive.
 
I shot my buddy's about a month back. Other than price, I'd say it's a great platform. It's not only expensive to buy, it's expensive to shoot. I felt kinda bad going through 2 mags of his ammo. He shot my Enfield some though, which is none too cheap either.
 
kelcarry said:
Hey willy: If you leave out cost (anywhere between $800-1100 depending on lightly used to new (see GunBroker)) the pistol is light weight (for a full size), high capacity (20 round w/extn to 30), lo recoil (a key to me for absolute accuracy), high velocity (accuracy and straight line trajectory over distance) and, depending on who you want to listen to, very lethal. An absolute joy to shoot at the range--almost (not quite) like shooting a 22 target pistol--then again the bullet size at 5.7 is almost a 22 in diameter. I have never had a problem at all. Suggest you go to fnforum.net and/or fivesevenforum.com for lots of discussion. There are 57 alternatives coming out (Masterpiece Arms) for a lot less money ----good? bad? cheap? could not tell you. I can tell you, however, that if you are willing to pay for the fn, you will never look back and enjoy the heck out the firearm.
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Thanks for the great response, I'm deff. going to check those forums out and do a little reading on this gun. I have an FN 9mm and love pretty much everything about it. So I'm sure I would enjoy the 5-7 as well. Just wish the price was a little cheaper. I'm really interested in it's close range knock down. Being able to shoot 100 yards is nice but that's not going to be the case in a self defense situation.
 
willyfastz said:
Thanks for the great response, I'm deff. going to check those forums out and do a little reading on this gun. I have an FN 9mm and love pretty much everything about it. So I'm sure I would enjoy the 5-7 as well. Just wish the price was a little cheaper. I'm really interested in it's close range knock down. Being able to shoot 100 yards is nice but that's not going to be the case in a self defense situation.
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I agree with you on self/home defense. I can tell by the threads on the 57 dedicated forums I mentioned that I am a bit of an amateur to many of the contributors to these forums. To me, this firearm offers, as I said in my post, lo recoil, light weight, high capacity and lethality and I cannot see me using it for anything over say 10 yards even though the "what ifs" will say otherwise. It is a bit of money but you should be patient and check out gunbroker for 57s that are for sale (used or new). You may be able to find one that will stay under $900 (still a bit of $$$ but I am not looking back). Mine was $870 new.
 
kelcarry said:
I agree with you on self/home defense. I can tell by the threads on the 57 dedicated forums I mentioned that I am a bit of an amateur to many of the contributors to these forums. To me, this firearm offers, as I said in my post, lo recoil, light weight, high capacity and lethality and I cannot see me using it for anything over say 10 yards even though the "what ifs" will say otherwise. It is a bit of money but you should be patient and check out gunbroker for 57s that are for sale (used or new). You may be able to find one that will stay under $900 (still a bit of $$$ but I am not looking back). Mine was $870 new.
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$870 seems like a heck of a deal. I'm putting a little money to the side of one. I hope I can get one that cheap or maybe even a little cheaper. You never know when the zoobies come we may need to shoot them a little farther out. :laugh:
 
For what it's worth, my two Granddaughters are here for the weekend. They are 16 and 18. Both first time shooters with a handgun. After some safety training we went out back and shot my GSG .22 semi auto that I use in my class. Then the .22 revolver I use. They put a bunch of rounds through both and enjoyed it immensely. Then we shot the .22 pump. They enjoyed it too. Then I had them shoot the five seveN. They loved it. They both said they would rather shoot it than the .22's.
 
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For what it's worth, my two Granddaughters are here for the weekend. They are 16 and 18. Both first time shooters with a handgun. After some safety training we went out back and shot my GSG .22 semi auto that I use in my class. Then the .22 revolver I use. They put a bunch of rounds through both and enjoyed it immensely. Then we shot the .22 pump. They enjoyed it too. Then I had them shoot the five seveN. They loved it. They both said they would rather shoot it than the .22's.
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That's interesting that they liked the 5-7 over the .22's. ANd I think it's a great thing to teach your granddaughters firearm safety and how to shoot. My son has been hunting and shooting sense he was 6. My daughter is 14, and told her that it's about time for her to start shooting a little as well. Sounds like the 5-7 may be a good gun to get her used to.
 
That's interesting that they liked the 5-7 over the .22's. ANd I think it's a great thing to teach your granddaughters firearm safety and how to shoot. My son has been hunting and shooting sense he was 6. My daughter is 14, and told her that it's about time for her to start shooting a little as well. Sounds like the 5-7 may be a good gun to get her used to.​
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I agree, the recoil is minimal and the round has a lot more stopping power than the .22. For plinking, I would still recommend the .22 simply because of the difference in cost for the ammo.
 
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I agree, the recoil is minimal and the round has a lot more stopping power than the .22. For plinking, I would still recommend the .22 simply because of the difference in cost for the ammo.
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Yup, that is the name of the game. A nickel or less for a 22 cartridge and 10 times that for a 57 cartridge. Usually go to range once every two weeks and fire off maybe 20 rounds of 57 just to remember how it feels and 100 rounds of 22LR just for fun.
 
Usually go to range once every two weeks and fire off maybe 20 rounds of 57 just to remember how it feels and 100 rounds of 22LR just for fun.
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As luck would have it, my 5.7 slings the empty cartridges about 12 to 15 feet which puts them in the grass. Since I'm saving them to get reloaded to cut down on the cost, it just makes it that much harder to find them. Where I shoot, it's too narrow to keep them out of the grass. Maybe I'll put up a curtain to knock them down in one area.
 
Gun Tests did an compairson (November 2011 / vol XXIII no 11) between the FNH FiveseveN (Gun Tests grade: B), and the Kal-Tec PMR-30 (Gun Tests grade: A) on page 23.
Short Version they likes the PMR-30 better, higher availability of more ammo types, firearm cost, and other things. What was interesting was the chrono data, not the huge difference one would assume between the .22 mag VS the 5.7X28... They were acceptably close, and the .22 mag is a whole lot cheaper to shoot....
 
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