I am looking to purchase a handgun for concealed carry. The Heckler & Koch P2000 subcompact 40 ca has caught my attention as well as the Springfield 1911 A1 compact. Both look to be excellent guns to carry concealed and both manufactures have good reputations. Does anyone have any knowledge of these guns. I would appreciate your comments.
Billbert,
Have you thought about the P2000SK? I'm looking for feedback on this particular HK. I posted elsewhere on the forum, but have not had any feedback. I think the size is right for CC. I'm wondering about the unusual decocker on the back of the receiver. Being a lefty, not sure if this would be easy to operate. Have not had the chance to hold one yet. Also kind of pricey.
The Ultra Compact Springfield also cost me a lot of money, and I have to admit to all of you out there that the Springfield has been nowhere near as reliable as the HK USP.
I have an HK P2000sk and love it. The decocker is very stiff to use and sounds like a dry fire but works fine. It does not work well by just pushing with your shooting hand I have to bring my weak hand over to push it. It is very accurate and the special recoil spring tames the .40. Since the P2000sk I have purchased 2 more HKs. I do not like the LEM trigger. Another plus for the decocker location is that in such a small gun you do not have to worry about your thumb hitting a decocker when shooting thumbs forward.
I once owned the H&K P2000 LEM. If it had not been for the LEM trigger having an extremely long pre-travel I would have kept the gun, but I traded it for another pistol.
I didn't like the LEM trigger one bit. If your new to handguns, or a novice of sorts, then the worst thing you can do is attempt to use a trigger system that requires thousands of rounds to acquire the proper release of the trigger to it's reset point with nothing more than muscle memory.
I didn't have the time, nor the money to train up and dial in with that trigger.
Nice gun, had I purchased the DA/SA with the decocker I would still own it.
YMMV
I own the LEM trigger and I disagree that starting with the LEM is the worst thing you can do if you're a novice. IMO, it's just the opposite. If you've learned on a DA/SA platform it's probably going to take you longer to adjust to this type of trigger as opposed to picking it up for the first time.
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