Yeah, I wasn't trying to imply that the VP70 is of comparable quality to a HiPoint. I was simply highlighting the fact that using a direct blowback design in a service caliber is necessarily going to lead to having a high-mass slide.
Yeah, I wasn't trying to imply that the VP70 is of comparable quality to a HiPoint. I was simply highlighting the fact that using a direct blowback design in a service caliber is necessarily going to lead to having a high-mass slide.
Last edited by jslaker; 08-31-2012 at 02:34 PM.
Carry Nightmare?Originally Posted by TCinVA
You know, I can see the cheesy viking pistol, diamond plating, rainbow slides, ect. But Carry Nightmare?
They need to hire somebody to slap people upside the head. Like the Terry Tate: Office Linebacker of brainstorming:
TGS wins the internet for today for invoking Terrible Terry Tate.
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The slide on that gun isn't as massy as you'd think, it looks larger in comparison because the grip is so trim.
Do these grips make my slide look big?
In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Not at all, Tim. And they'd go really well with those extended lashes.
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IIRC the VP70 was designed to be a combination sub-machinegun and pistol with a polymer stock/holster. Once the stock was attached to the rear of the grip it became a functional sub gun, remove the shoulder stock and it was a semi auto pistol. It had a very heavy DAO type of trigger and was also a delayed blowback design. Like the P-9 and later H&K pistols it was very accurate and also expensive for its day. I never could figure out why H&K went to the trouble of marketing it as a semi auto pistol here in the US. Now what in the daylights a VP70 has in common with a HPA pistol, other than being a brick I couldn’t begin to guess?
I would actually carry the HK, so they don't have that in common either.
That's my impression as well. The VP70 looks piggy, but handles better than it looks.
The Hi-Point looks piggy, and it's even piggier in person.
On the subject of the Hi-Point, I just got back from the range with it. I won't give it away yet, but something happened that had me laughing until I was in tears.
Not bad.
...but I see your Terry Tate idea and raise you one SouthNarc...mainly because the spectacle of a guy in a custom tailored Italian suit threatening gun industry execs with physical harm and forcible sodomy would be even funnier.
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