Comments on: H&K Fanboys and the Shooting Sports

By: BC

BC — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:04:35 +0000

I don’t think you’re particularly well qualified to speculate about how closely I examined the price tags on my purchases or how badly I got ripped off by my dealer. I paid about $650 for my USP, new; I paid about $565 for my Glock, new. A $85 “hype tax”, as you call it, does not constitute a back-breaking, rant-inspiring markup, in my world.

Do I think HK firearms are overpriced? Sure. Would I pay the “hype tax” again? Probably not. Does $85 that I wish I had back diminish my satisfaction with my USP to the point of taking an enormous steaming crap on the manufacturer and all its works, and getting into stupid Internet slap-fights with tools who’ve never come closer to firing a weapon than Call to Duty? Life’s too short.

By: Laughingdog

Laughingdog — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:25:34 +0000

“It wasn’t significantly more expensive than a Glock or a SigPro”

I don’t think you looked too closely at the price tags when you bought your USP, or your store rapes people buying Glocks. H&K and Sig do both have the hype tax on them, driving them to the $700-$900 price range. But you can get a Glock for about $450-$500.

They aren’t bad guns. But, having shot a range of brands, I really can’t see any reason to pay so much more for Sigs and H&Ks just because some guys in Spec War use some of their models. Especially since the Spec War guys I run into in the range generally prefer to shoot other brands themselves.

By: BadIdeaGuy

BadIdeaGuy — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:35:35 +0000

just kidding! (sorry if my j/k post double-posted)

By: BadIdeaGuy

BadIdeaGuy — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:34:57 +0000

You’re just jealous, because real operators carry H&K.

By: BC

BC — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:02:10 +0000

I own a USP, and while I’m not here to claim that it’s God’s gift or anything, I think the writer is unjustly harsh on the handgun. It wasn’t significantly more expensive than a Glock or a SigPro; the trigger is a little blocky but not this strange Teutonic implement the writer makes out; and I can operate the mag release with one hand just fine, though admittedly I have big hands.

It sounds a lot to me like the writer is every bit as religious about his anti-HK preferences as the fanboys are with their pro-HK drivel. Reality tends to occupy the wide gray area between the positions staked out by zealots of all stripes.

By: Alcibiades McZombie

Alcibiades McZombie — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:41:13 +0000

I think that guy mentioned how an SKS won’t win a precision rifle competition. Well, of course not, most firearms of all types won’t win competitions. Plus, it ignores the whole concept of self-defense.