Originally Posted by
JoshNC
I would absolutely never recommend a non-Hk roller delay if an hk is available at a reasonable price. Zenith and POF are licensed copies, but made in Germany by Germans they are not. Their QC/QA leaves much to be desired. Just as good as HK they are not. Made in Turkey or Pakistan will never be the equal of HK.
The SP5K is available and at a pretty reasonable price compared to what an SP89 cost before the SP5K was released. Add a B&T MP5K-N barrel, send to TSC Machine for barrel swap, paddle mag install, remark to MP5K-N, and refinish and you have an heirloom quality HK MP5K-N. The SP5K also has the F bolt head upgrades, a tungsten-filled carrier, and an ambi/Navy FBI type lower.
Re: ammo, my MP5-N and MP5K-N both eat any full power 9x19 so long as it’s not a truncated bullet. Speer Gold Dot 124gr and 147gr are my preferred carry loads and both of my MP5s feed/function great with both.
Maintenance is easy. I clean every 1000-1500 rounds. I used to go longer intervals but had so much carbon in the roller recessed of the trunion on my K-N that it was affecting bolt gap and giving me failures. The extractor spring design is the weak link in the MP5, so stock up on factory HK made extractor springs because when you remove the extractor spring you want to replace it per HK recommendations. You should not need different roller sizes any time soon unless you change your bolthead (don’t) or change your locking piece (#28 was designed for 147gr subsonic use, but is not a necessity imo unless you’re shooting fullauto). But it’s a good idea to pick up different rollers in anticipation of the future.
Recoil is negligible, less in my opinion than a Colt type AR15/M16 9mm.
Everyone needs at least one MP5. If you’re only going to own one, make it a German HK.
Agree with everything, even though I'm very happy with my early import MKE MP5 and MP5k SBRs. Only thing I wouldn't do is bother with a barrel swap. To me a k/PDW platform is meant to be compact so I don't really need it to be suppressor ready. I have full size MP5s for that.
Still want to lay my hands on a cheap POF just so I can justify a "green furniture" MP5. My MKEs were second shipment / first imports (mine were specifically the MKE 94P and 94k) and seem to be better quality than the ones that were recently imported, they also make nice bang around guns for things that I wouldn't want to do with my pre86 dealer samples.
For the 94k all I had to do was register it and add a folding stock, for the 94p I had to cut, crown and three lug which I had done by S&H Arms who are probably the best in the biz when it comes to doing three lug adapters, the barrel threads run all the way through the adapter just like factory HK guns.
But if anyone is looking to just "get one" today, the SP5k is clearly the way to go.
Last edited by SteyrAUG; 06-24-19 at 01:31.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
كافر
Bookmarks