Here is my USP. I love this pistol.

[Sinatra877]

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z220/Sinatra877/Tools/CustomizedHKUSP.45ACP.jpg

Notice the .45 ACP Pow-R-Ball round. What a devastating round!

[Headhunter 13]

That is sweet.

[shipwreck]

Very nice! I like my USPc :)

[Sinatra877]

All I did was enhance the look. I glazed the HK logo's with a bottle of fingernail polish and removed the top layer off with the remover. I put decal grips on them and I put adjustable Meprolights on it. It's a purty gun now...

The round is a Corbon Pow R Ball round, a Federal FEMJ (Federal Expanding Metal Jacket) round is by far one of the most devastating rounds I've ever shot at flesh before. It literally explodes and we've noticed Speer Gold Dots and Hydrashoks fail to expand almost 80% of the time due to bones, hard tissue, equipment and clothes.

Besides Glock, I think that the H&K has built winners for fighting dirty. I'm not too confident that my Beretta could've absorbed the punishment that I have done to my Glock or H&K.

No offense fellas...

[sleepyweasel]

sinatra...how big is a usp?? i cant remember seeing one up close.
also that remark about beretta reliability.....i'll let that slide:lol:, but i feel the 92 is the most reliable handgun made(glock may be close, but i've heard that they are sensitive to :limp:ing)

[Sinatra877]

sinatra...how big is a usp?? i cant remember seeing one up close.
also that remark about beretta reliability.....i'll let that slide:lol:, but i feel the 92 is the most reliable handgun made(glock may be close, but i've heard that they are sensitive to :limp:ing)

I'd say that the HK USP .45 is about as large as a Springfield Arms XD. It's a bit larger than your average bear but well worth it.

I left the BF after being chastised about my selection of a combat handgun. I had it with those guys...without pointing names. Some think Berettas are the shit when it comes to combat handguns. Jeff Cooper thought it was the 1911. Some would argue that revolvers are still the answer. I beg to differ on the basis of active Police duty and combat with these handguns. So don't go nuts when you read this OK? It's just my two cents.

You can look it up in the thread "Px4 vs. Glock". I've taught hundreds of students with everything from Beretta 92's, Glocks, 1911's and Helwans. Of all of them, I'd prefer a Glock or my HK for CQB stuff. I've taught Kenya's Air Force pilots with 92's, Rwandan Soldiers with AK's and Glocks, Iraqi military and their SF units with Glocks and '92's and Afghani's with Glocks and Egyptians with Helwan copies of the 92. After a couple hundred so students, I'd say that the Glock was the easiest to teach. There is less to learn and these guys were like dense...as in smart as a soap dish and they learned it without shooting themselves. HK's aren't taught except for some rifles but the pistols are too pricey for a 2nd and 3rd world armies and police.

I got laughed at and patronized when I told them that Blackwater Security has a G17 that they've abused since 2003. So far it has shot over one million rounds of ammunition without problems or replacement parts. It was a challenge to BW's firearms instruction team. Glock pulled one out of the group of two thousand that they bought and said to the company, if you can break it, we'll give all the money back too you and you can still keep the Glocks. As I said in the thread, it's been dropped from 30 feet a few times, frozen, pulled out from dry sand, pulled out from water, pulled out from the mud and run over a few times with an armored Suburban and it is hosed down with brake cleaner every thousand rounds to simulate a horrible cleaning job and it still shoots without hiccups other than shooter error. I've shot it myself. It is still being tested and used everyday 24/7 for training exercises which includes fastroping from helos, CQB drills, Operator Drills...there hasn't been anything that I heard from that hasn't been tried other than melting it.

Anyways...

The 92's design goes back almost 70 years, it's heavier and it is more prone to malfuntion in combat but that is my own observations from actual war fighting. It is a nice pistol for shooting but the abuse we put our weapons...I think the 92 is a bit delicate for it. It's a great looking pistol from the world's oldest firearms manufactuer and is highly respected and sought after. Just a little sand can ruin your day with it. I just trust my Glocks and HK more in combat situations. They are just KISS simple which is the greatest things about them.