Oh hell yeah. So I can keep shooting it for a while and still carry it without worrying about it needing a detail cleaning? Nice.
I carried an HK45C V1 for several years but didn't shoot it that often, the safety made it uncomfortable to shoot for more than a couple hundred rounds. This V7 is an absolute joy to shoot. Sounds like it doesn't need a detail strip as often as a Glock, or parts replacement.
About 15 years ago when I first got on gun forums, a 1911 forum specifically, one of the more experienced guys asked the rhetorical question , "do we detail strip our 1911's (or insert any other easy to detail strip gun like a Glock) because we need to, or because we can?"
It shouldn't.
https://pistol-training.com/hk45-end...hirty-seven-2/
Read that. I shot the test gun during some of that testing. Todd hated cleaning guns and would only do it under protest, generally when the thing was sufficiently dirty that merely handling it left your hands black. The HK did fine.
You only need to bother with detail stripping if something goes wrong with the fire control system just to the accumulation of crud. Of course, that is unlikely to happen if you just clean it at sensible intervals and don't deliberately abuse the gun the way Todd did by cleaning it every tenth case of ammo he fired through it.
If you clean it every half a case or case of ammo, you'll be fine. Lubricate as needed and if you're going to shoot a lot lubricate generously as proper oil will grab the crud that can impact function and flow it away from the areas where it can impact function.
Even on the P30 test...which was more abusive than the HK45 test, Todd didn't break the gun down for detail cleaning until beyond 50,000 rounds, IIRC. So until you've shot about $10,000.00 worth of ammo through the gun at a hideously abusive pace of 500 rounds per range session while only cleaning it every 10,000 rounds...you aren't likely to have a problem.
3/15/2016
Refresh my recollection -- how often did trigger return springs break, and was that more the P30 than HK45?
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
Best of my recollection he definitely went through multiple TRS. If you do a lot of dryfire, those are reps on the TRS as well. 10,000 rounds or so is probably a good figure for that with dryfire included if you're looking for a preventative maintenance schedule.
3/15/2016