Vickers was using his HK VP9 with Grayguns action work on the trigger for the first time. Granted LAV is a fantastic handgun shooter, but the man was truly/literally ecstatic with his results and we who were watching were blown away.
I was next to him as he was shooting and as he snapped his pics as we were looking at the target I just said, “Holy crap, Larry.” He said, “F yes!”
Here is the result of Vickers shooting the VP9 with trigger work for the first time. First 15 shots fired from 10 meters. Shots were taken fairly quickly.
Here is the result of his shooting of the VP9 the next day, with weak hand, first picture, and strong hand only, second picture. The drill was to shoot from 3-6-9 yards, on a random timer beep, as the beep sounded. There was no way to anticipate the shots.
I would say any gun that Vickers has his trigger finger on…instantly becomes an “enhanced trigger”. I’m holding out for a smaller version of the VP9 such as a “c” or “sk” model.
But, as LAV said, he liked his HK VP9 a lot but the trigger work took it to a whole new level. Said he has never fired a better striker action trigger system.
Here is what he wrote on his Facebook page:
“Today I officially announce that in my opinion the Grayguns tuned HK VP9 is the ‘P210 of polymer framed handguns’ - for those that know how accurate the SIG P210 is that is a huge compliment. The 2 targets posted are from shooting my VP9 on back to back 3-6-9 drills - first STRONG hand only then WEAK hand only !!! My students know what the 3-6-9 drill is and they will attest these are very impressive targets - let alone one handed. Nuff said.”
That sounds right. Assuming their serials are sequential, the first I saw was in the 3,000s and the latest I saw a month or two ago was in the 40,000s.
They were already doing very well, and I think what this means mostly is that the backlog will grow even longer. I told LAV, “Well, thanks a lot, now it will take them a year to get them turned around.”
