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Well I've never owned a HK. I've shot a VP9 and I like them, but honestly my striker fired guns will stay Glocks. With that said I do want a nice hammer fired pistol and I love the look of HKs. I grew up in the 80's and the gun to own was the USP. So I looked into getting a USP 9c but after looking for a few days I fell in love with the P2000 instead.
So I went out to handle some P2000s. First I went to Palmetto State Armory and they had a P2000 V2 and a P2000 V3. I looked them over to try and identify the difference between the two but saw nothing different. I asked the worker how you could tell if one was V2 or V3 and I might as well been asking him what the square root of A is. Both were IDENTICAL appearance wise. Both had the decocker on the rear of the slide by the hammer. I racked the slides, decocked them, and tested. The V2 felt nice and in my mind felt like a 8-9lb trigger. The V3 felt the same, but a little heavier. But the trigger travel and everything felt the same, just a little heavier (maybe 11lbs).
So then I leave there thinking I definitely want what was labeled the "V2". I went across the street to Cabelas and they had a P30 V1. While it wasn't a P2000, I did want to feel the trigger. Again, it had the decocker on the rear of the slide. I racked the slide and decocked it. Felt like a long 11lb trigger to me.
In honesty I'm left now with more questions than I had before. How can you tell by looking at the gun if it is V1, V2, V3? From reading online it seems finding a V1 in the wild is rare in itself so I'm very curious how Cabelas of all places, had one.
So I went out to handle some P2000s. First I went to Palmetto State Armory and they had a P2000 V2 and a P2000 V3. I looked them over to try and identify the difference between the two but saw nothing different. I asked the worker how you could tell if one was V2 or V3 and I might as well been asking him what the square root of A is. Both were IDENTICAL appearance wise. Both had the decocker on the rear of the slide by the hammer. I racked the slides, decocked them, and tested. The V2 felt nice and in my mind felt like a 8-9lb trigger. The V3 felt the same, but a little heavier. But the trigger travel and everything felt the same, just a little heavier (maybe 11lbs).
So then I leave there thinking I definitely want what was labeled the "V2". I went across the street to Cabelas and they had a P30 V1. While it wasn't a P2000, I did want to feel the trigger. Again, it had the decocker on the rear of the slide. I racked the slide and decocked it. Felt like a long 11lb trigger to me.
In honesty I'm left now with more questions than I had before. How can you tell by looking at the gun if it is V1, V2, V3? From reading online it seems finding a V1 in the wild is rare in itself so I'm very curious how Cabelas of all places, had one.