Some of youse may have seen my article on the PS90 in a recent issue of SWAT Magazine. I tried to stay objective on it in terms of whether or not the caliber is a meaningful one for gunfighting since, although I study these things as best I can, I can't present myself as an authority on them.
An incident I did not relate in the article, and that can now be revealed, is that I have drawn blood with the 5.7. My vehicles were being vandalized by someone with a very small bite radius, chewing through spark plug wires, brake light wires, and even a gas line. OK, a gas line is not vandalism, that's sabotage! I'd had about enough of this and determined that the next unauthorized.... creature I saw within 10' of a car would be fair, um, small game. I kept the PS90 handy, loaded with 50 rounds or SS196, the 40-grain V-Max load at 1700-plus FPS (I think some guys have chrono'd them at 1900-plus in the PS90's 16" barrel).
My vigilance paid off and I spotted the squirrely little culprit casing the car. I quietly and slowly reached for the PS90, estimated the range, and used the appropriate holdover (20 feet and about 3 1/4" due to the PS90's very high-from-the-bore sight), quietly and carefully took it off safe, and sent 40 grains of vengance towards the author of my sorrows.
One shot, one kill. True story.
Obviously this has no serious bearing on the discussion (although it really DID happen) but my intent here is to remind everyone that life is friggin' short and those of us posting here have a sh'load of things in common, that's the cake, and the few differences between us ought to be the frosting. We need to be exchanging info to help each other out, and maybe have a little fun in doing it. Maybe even have a little fun at each other's expense from time to time .
One chum is Kandahar is telling me the Dutch guys are using them too and love them. Doesn't mean they have a lot of notches on their P90's, that I really don't know. Training with a P90, you could sure love it. Low noise, low recoil, low weight, low maint.
Not to dis FNH, but I have wondered why they released a civvy version of the P90 (and FiveseveN for that matter). I have wondered if maybe they see it petering out in terms of military and police sales due to the caliber not really catching on, and figured it would be a good way to wring a little more out of it before discontinuing it. Just a thought. If I'm right, good on 'em for letting us regular folks have a chance to own one if we want.
Which is not to say I wouldn't like to have one, I would. I thought it had a lot of "cool factor" and some features of merit. Would not care to be handed one with orders to "take Fallujah", but as part of a collection and as a fun gun to shoot, definitely.
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