Mr. Williams and Mr. Camp: Both your comments and...um...suggestions
... are duly noted. At least by me.
I for one have no real desire to brawl with trolls... Even little ones.
However, I'm always interested in why a person prefers one item over another, and what, if any, advantages they see in the item of their preference.
In the case of the two pistols mentioned, one is a bit larger, heavier, and more complex than the other. Both have at least one feature that is slightly more difficult to improve/alter than the average semi-auto pistol. ( Improving the trigger on either weapon takes more than a bit of know-how. The CZ's "camming" of the hammer in single-action, and the HP's trigger reset are not things that just any idiot can change... or at least cannot change for the better. ) One of them also doesn't fit my hand as well as the other, due to the increase in grip size, or the shape/cross section of the grip. These things are the sort that cause me to choose one over the other. It has little to do with the age of the design, or any "following" one or the other may or may not have.
However, since I'll probably not get an answer regarding any of those differences, I'll return to the subject of the thread.
So... getting back to a "semi-custom" or "enhanced" production HP.... We've already mentioned the safety.... anything "not mushy" is certainly to be desired. It wouldn't take anything truly custom to remedy this, only a slight change in the shape of the indentions and the plunger that engages them.
Somebody already mentioned making a stainless HP... I think a lot of people would probably go for this idea. I also think that an alloy frame would probably sell pretty well. Especially in a "Detective" sized gun.
There's also the matter of the trigger reset that I mentioned earlier... I'm not sure what kind of changes in geometry would give a shorter reset, or if those changes would be practical. Or, if they're even enough of an issue to even bother with. I certainly don't notice the reset when I shoot, so someone else will have to comment on this particular issue.
Well? Anything else folks would like to see done to a HP to "improve" it?
J.C.