What ever happened to the HK slim 9?

[Archer1440]

Ive had similar experience, although I did have 11 stoppages over 26K rounds on my main p30. And broken parts on it and the P7 within modest round counts.
That said, I am less convinced in superiority of HK engineering now than I was then. Although they never lose on style points
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Well, you do shoot faster than I do, after all…

And you have to admit, I did stay dry that day too.

[4RNR]

Five P30 platform pistols, eight VP platform pistols, an HK45, a pair of P7’s, and three USP platform pistols, and I have yet to experience any sort of malfunction of any kind (that was not deliberately induced as a part of a training class). I have something on the order of a quarter-million rounds through various HK’s since the mid 1990’s. Some years 50,000 rounds, some less than 2500. Have literally always had every HK I have ever shot go bang every time.

This has been my experience as well through about half dozen different HKs, mostly USPs. Although I do shoot mostly steel case I have yet to see a malfunction.

And if you load the ammo backwards you turn a 115gr into a 124!!! Save money and get NATO like performance!

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[TC215]

I don’t know about that. I remember the same amount of complaints regarding P30s. People always had the same answer: have you tried hotter ammo because it’s designed for NATO loads?

My P30 definitely had issues with 115gr ammo when it was new. 124gr did fine.

[DMCutter]

A couple months back I had a bad day at the range with my RMR equipped USPC9 and some Speer 115 grain range fodder. Wouldn't go more than 2 rounds without a FTE, first time I'd ever had a malf with that pistol, even suppressed. The ammo worked fine in my MR918 and MR920 so I figured it was just too weak for the HK because 124 ran just fine the same session. Admittedly, I am very slack WRT cleaning, and after a good clean and lube it cycled fine, so I think it was probably just crud in the extractor claw. Even HKs won't run forever without some maintenance.

[Rex G]

My PSP/P7 pistols, which I carried on duty, and during personal time, worked 100% reliably. That was 1985/1986. The P7/PSP was not the only single-column-mag HK pistols, at the time. Some of my colleagues had HK P9/P9s pistols.

Then, of course, it became apparent that we would die less often, if we used double-column-mag pistols. (Actually, it was the lack of duty holsters with Level 3 retention, that steered us away from those earlier HK pistols, as the old-school flap holsters were phased-out.) But, yeah, the overall market forces eventually demanded pistols that one loaded on Sunday, and fired all week, without having to reload.