Yes -
BUY IT NOW. I have the P5 compact (actually my wife does...). The P5 has a slightly longer barrel and a more pronounced hammer than the P5C.
The barrel design of the P5 makes it a tack driver. The front of the barrel assembly is on a set of pinned "rails" within the slide itself. This beautiful design ensures that the barrel returns to the
exact same position after each cycle of the slide.
The P5 has NO safeties, which I like, but is a safe pistol as the firing pin is not engaged until either the trigger is pulled all the way through or the hammer is manually pulled back in single action fashion.
I have several pistols and to be honest, for a CCW gun the P5 takes the cake. Very slim, all metal, highly accurate. Take one apart and look at that barrel design!
There is one negative. The P5 chamber is designed with a very small "free bore" space (the space in the barrel just forward of the chamber that does not have rifleing). This makes the wepaon very picky about the ammo it will feed. It was specifically designed for military "ball" ammo. Hollow points will not feed properly in this gun. I have tried about 10 different types and weights of hollowpoint bullets to no **reliable** avail. To this end, when we "carry" the weapon, there is one HP in the pipe and FMJ's in the magazine. Other than this drawback it is probably the best all around carry weapon I have ver encountered - including my beloved HK USP Compact (I'm still loyal to her...
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I highly recommend the P5.
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