Thanks James! As an owner of a VP70, I've had a few, who was mesmerized by the design in the 80's, I like bringing it out to show HK heritage. If I recall, the VP70 was used in the movie Alien. It was so futuristic it looked appropriate to the period. Kudos to the prop master. Yes, heavy trigger, fixed sights cause folks to scoff at the thought of a SHTF sidearm, but it works for the people! Reliably!!
This gun was in a video game I played Growing up, Resident Evil 2. Seeing the gun in a video game got me interested in HK and firearms in general because of the unique burst mechanism and shoulder stock. It’s a very cool pistol, thanks for the video!
Great content as always. The pistol looks like a space gun. I remember seeing one at a gun show back in the 1980s but kinda forgot about them since. Moving on to your nitnoid detailed video now. You are the man.
Thanks for another quality video, James. I’ve had a VP70z for roughly 5yrs now that I got in a trade. I remember seeing it in the 1986 James Cameron film, Aliens. It wasn’t till 1998 when I was a teenager that I found it was made by Heckler and Koch going by the information given to the main sidearm of the protagonist Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil 2. I’ve always enjoyed the history of this pistol, especially when uninformed people think Glock was the first polymer handgun, sorry, but Heckler and Koch did it first. Thanks again, James.
Would be cool of HK to make an ode to the VP70 by making a stock/holster brace for the VP9 that turns it into a 3 round burst pdw. But I'm just daydreaming so don't mind me haha. Thanks for sharing James. Love me some HK.
It is documented that Glock engineers studied this VP70Z design when they were thinking about creating the first G17 - 13 years after this masterpiece came out.
That 18! Round magazine was what attracted me to buy this back in 1974. The avant garde design, simple function compared to the H&K P7 cocker, and I hated the open slide- exposed barrel Baretta 92 design. This was my first 9mm and still own it. My addiction today is Sig Sauer metal classics because of simplicity, high quality, beautiful simple design. P6, P224SAS, P239, P226 Elite, P227 Elite - thats my gray room here in Sig New Hampshire. Thanks James for honoring VP70Z. ps, I wish I purchased a P9S Sport Target way back then.
Learned of it by playing the Resident Evil games, only ever seen one IRL once. It's other note is A pretty horrible trigger which was bad even for it's day. I think gun owners are now spoiled with far better triggers on average now.
