Heckler and Koch VP70 Target of Opportunity Video
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- In this video, we take a quick look at one of the most interesting handguns from Heckler and Koch's legacy line. I believe that if you can understand the historical background leading up to this pistol and the simplistic approach that H&K followed in order to satisfy this German military requirement, you can better appreciate one of H&K's earliest pistol designs.
Huge thanks to H&K for allowing me access to their Gray Room in order to film this video. For more information on the VP70 series, check out Volume 1 of the Vickers Guide Heckler and Koch series, available at Vickersguide.com or my thorough review of the VP70 series on my channel, linked here:
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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!!
Aliens, not Alien. Yep, the futuristic look made it fit right in.
This pistol was also in Resident Evil. I think it was a first time I saw it as a kid back in the day.
Leon!
They need to start making these again
Seriously, Resident Evil fans would buy multiple ones.
My first HK, bought it back in the early 2010s, still have it.
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.
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!
Thank you for the excellent history lesson regarding these HK pistols. Btw, your work on the HK Vickers Guides is outstanding. Well done sir!
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.
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.
James is my target of opportunity. I see a video by him on my feed, I'm clicking it.
Excellent video and brief James, thank you for a classic piece of H&K pistol history and German firearm mindset of the Cold War.
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.
I've always appreciated the aesthetics of the VP-70. Thanks for the video.
The vp 70 is an awesome gun I found mine at a gun show
A classic RE2 pistol.
Thanks James! 🌟🌙
Thank you for more fantastic HK content, James. Keep it coming!
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.
Amazing video is always. I’ve had one of those pistols for years. They are a very interesting piece of history.
Thanks for the cool info!
World’s best engineered Hi Point
From VP70 to HiPoint
... That's the same concept but two extremely different guns.
Still kicking myself for selling mine. The trigger pull was bad though
Leon Kennedy would approve. He has always been an HK fan in every mission he goes on.
THAT COULD HAVE BEEN A BOND GUN...
It actually was in the continuation novels. He ends up replacing it with a P7 too.
It also made an appearance in ‘Aliens’
the walther p 38 was a hard firearm to beat for 40yrs..
Have two of these, one still NIB and unfired!
If you translate VP70 to English it means high point
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.
I like oddball guns, but damn thats ugly...
I wish back in the 80s I would have bought a couple while they were 225$