Best Single-Stack Nine?

Which single-stack nine do you think is best?

  • Walther P-5

    Votes: 5 5.2%

  • H&K P7M8

    Votes: 52 54.2%

  • SIG 225

    Votes: 39 40.6%
  • Total voters
    96
The P7M8: highly accurate, innovative, and easy to carry. Next one up on my list would be the SIG P225, but having to pick from that list is like choosing between three colors of Porsche convertibles. They're all exceptional pistols.
 
You forgot about the 2 best 9mm single stacks ever produced in your poll:

1. Sig p210

2. HK P9S

And those are my favorite in that order :)
 
I just bought Star Super model B from spain, since during WWII germany used lots of it, Does it inclusive your poll? :)
I love this gun, just like I love 1911,
 
Thanks for the replies so far.

I intentionally limited the poll to these three guns because they always seemed to be mentioned in the same breath; you know, "the three great nines from the German pistol trials" and so on. So I thought it would be fun to put them against one another again here on TFL. No slight intended to other great single-stacks.

--Hemlock0013
 
If I had to get a single stack 9x19mm, I would either go with a 1911 or a Beretta. I forget what the model number is, but I have seen a few members here speak of a single stack Beretta that is supposed to be real sweet.
 
I like the P225 the best. It doesn't get hot like the P7 does and it doesn't have a gas system that requires special care and I like the way it feels in my hand. Also, I would take a P7 over the Walther P5 because of the way they feel in my hand.
 
P7

My P7 has been by my side for years. Slim, easy to conceal, safe and at the range the gun makes you look like a sharpshooter!
 
The P7 of course, drives dimes at 25 yards like no other and disappears on most people for CCW.

Sig P225 has an exposed hammer and rusts like a nail in salt water.

And the Walther, please.

And the Sig P210 is a monster, no concealable and has bad ergonomics - the hammer can bite.

And the Kahr K9s are bricks.
 
Another vote for the P7. Though SIG's are still great guns. The P7 does have its limits though. It was intentionally designed as a police gun, and in this, and civilian concealed carry it has no equal IMHO. There's a reason the German's selected it over the other two in their trials. It's gas system and general maintenance requirements preclude it's use as a "kick in the dirt and treat like an AK" handgun.

It's squeeze cocking mechanism gives it a single trigger pull weight, the gas system allows it to have a much smaller slide, and it has a very low bore axis. Very accurate and very reliable to boot. It's is smaller than the SIG despite having a longer barrel. The 225 is 7.1" long, 5.2" high, 1.3" wide, with a 5.7" sight radius. Compared to the P7 which is 6.54" long, 5.0" high, and 1.14" wide, with a 5.83" sight radius. With the same magazine capacity as the SIG 225, it's clear why the Germans chose as they did.

In most trials, the design that is most changed to meet the requirements often wins. Thus the reason the P7M13 lost to the Beretta, and SIG in the Army trials.

-Morgan
 
Oh yeah, I might as well chime in here:

IMHO, the SIG P210 is the best single-stack nine IF you don't care much about concealability. Calling it a "monster" is uncalled for, however. It is just a full-sized gun... you might as well call a Browning Hi-Power a "monster" while you're at it. Then duck. :p

I've shot the P210 a bunch (sadly I don't own one) and it was the slickest, smoothest, tightest, lightest-recoiling, most accurate, easiest to shoot well, nicest-trigger-having 9mm I've ever handled... to include the P7M8. I thought the ergonomics were nice, too, and never got any hammer bite FWIW. Oh yeah, and it's in the original version of the movie "Get Carter" starring Michael Caine. :cool:

If you want a single-stack 9mm you have a practical chance of concealing comfortably the P7M8 wins on cool ponts. I shot one and it is groovy, if a bit heavy for its size. I have to plead ignorance on the Wather, I don't know if I've even seen one.
 
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