Any reason to avoid a refurb P7M8?

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gbelleh

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For a while now I've been saying my next gun will be a P7M8, but I always seem to give in to temptation and buy some other gun once I have about half the money saved up for a new P7M8.

Recently in my area, I've seen several refurb P7s for sale. Some have had the unusually reddish slide, of course they all have mill markings, but they all look good to me and for $400 or $500 less than a new one.

I plan to get my P7 chrome plated anyway, so the reddish slide doesn't bother me at all. I could choose to have the mill mark removed too.

My question is: Is there any good reason not to buy a refurb P7? Does anyone know what these guns have been through? What does HK do to them during the refurb? Are they every bit as good as a new one?

Has anyone had problems with a refurb?

Thanks
 
If you can live with the mark, then by all means get a refurb; especially if you're gonna hard chrome anyway. I have not heard of anyone having any problems with refurbs. Most of them were fired very little.

Go to parkcitiestactical.com/
and check out the Cult. Do a search for refurbs and hard chroming. You'll be reading for hours. We will welcome you as a new Cult member. :D
 
Same problem, same solution.

Longtime fan of the P7, just never wound up buying one until the refurbs hit the market. P7 is good, yes; but so's a G23 and a P-228, plus leather for each, for the same price.

Have had two refurbs; both fine guns.
 
I have about 5300 rounds through my refurb with no problems.
I've had a total of 5 failure to extracts. 4 of them have been recent with Blazer ammo, but I was using my 23# spring.
 
a refurb is a great way to get into a p7 and is especially attractive if you weere planning to hard chrome it anyway.

most were police trade-ins and the grind mark is the removal of the departmental/state/canton seal. many refinishers have perfected the filling and blending of the mark and added it to their plating package.

cult members usually refer to that "redish" color of the slide as "plum"... i don't think it is a product of refurbishing
 
There have been a few reports of loose front sights on some of the refurbs. Fixed by HK.

Blazer may not be the ideal ammo for a fluted chamber, so keep that in mind with Incursion's post.
 
Handy is right. That is the only mechnical complaint I've ever heard and it was a couple of them. Front sights and inserts falling out. but most people just epoxied them right back in and let them cure for 24 full hours.

I got one of my P7M8s as one of the German police trade-ins. No reason to worry.

And a couple of the refinishers can level that mill mark to the point where you'd never know it was there.

Glocks and P7s, buy them used no doubt. Hard to break.
 
I'm sure there's no problem with the refurbs (although I've heard they've had a lot of rounds through them), but I think that gring mark is UGLY. Of course, if you're going to get yours plated, it probably doesn't apply to you, and you'll probably have a great gun at a lower price.

BTW, my P7 was an original, non-refurb. I think it looked so much better than the refurbed models.
 
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