For Everybody Who Complains About the HK P7 Series Getting Too Hot......

[waterhouse]

They do seem to get hotter than any other pistol I own, but I went with Peter's method and number 3 should be arriving later this week. I would get a p7m8 just to try that fancy heat shield, but then I'd have to go find new mags and all.

great carry guns. My cousin spent all day saturday telling me how great his new SIG 239 was, so I played a nasty trick and let him shoot one of the p7s. I'm not sure if his wife will ever forgive me.

[please do not take this as a knock against your SIG. I own 11 of them, so you don't need to tell me how nice they are]

 

[Marko Kloos]

The problem with the P7 is not that it gets hot, but where it gets hot. The gas cylinder sits right above the trigger guard, and that area heats up to egg-frying temperatures the fastest. That's why the P7M8 has a plastic heat shield in that location, but I've given my trigger finger good burns even with my P7M8 nonetheless.

My S&W M10 gets pretty hot after a hundred quick rounds as well, but it's primarily the barrel that heats up, and it's easier to avoid contact with it. On the P7, your trigger finger is always right below the hot gas cylinder, right on the part of the steel frame that heats up the most.

 

[buzz_knox]

Even long guns get hot.

Tell me about it. A full mag non-standard response or a breaking an ambush drill is enough to make the barrel on my M4gery searing hot.

I wear shorts to some pistol training classes. But with rifles, long pants are a must.