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The Heckler & Koch VP9 is a polymer-framed semi-automatic striker-fired handgun. The VP designation in the name refers to Volkspistole, which translates to “people’s pistol”, while SFP stands for “striker-fired pistol”. The 9 stands for the caliber designation of 9 mm.If you’re thinking about picking up a new pistol and want something that’ll run out of the box with some legitimately rad ergonomic features built-in, grab the HK VP9.
While you might want to invest in some gloves, the VP9 feels great in the hand, shoots well, and is a gun you shouldn’t sleep on. If you don’t yet own a striker-fired pistol and want to, the HK VP9 is a solid choice as a dependable sidearm with HK’s time-tested reliability. It will without a doubt be worth the cost of purchase, measured over its long lifespan.
Whether it’s security, military, law enforcement or civilian sport shooting, step up to striker-fired perfection with the HK® VP9™ Optics-Ready Semi-Auto Pistol. Featuring a premium, light-pull trigger, the VP9 is HK’s first striker-fired handgun since the P7 series was introduced in the 1980s. This handgun boasts a customizable grip, utilizing 3 interchangeable backstraps and 6 side plates to accommodate various hand sizes.
Ambidextrous controls allow both right- and left-handed shooters to operate the pistol with ease. An extended Picatinny rail molded into the polymer frame supports up to 5.6-oz. accessories, while a proprietary captive flat guide rod improves shooter control. Coupled with an optional optics-ready slide cut with cap (adapter plate not included), a hi-vis front sight with a black serrated rear sight boasts rapid, instinctive sight acquisition.
- Optics-ready slide cut
- Updated hi-vis sights
- Advanced striker-fired slide design
- Optimal light-pull trigger-control system
- Interchangeable backstraps and side plates for a custom grip
- Patented charging supports enhance leverage and grip for racking
- Ambidextrous controls
TECHNOLOGY
Cold Hammer Forged Polygonal Bore
Reinforced Polyamide (Polymer) Frame
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Heckler & Koch’s VP9 pistols are H&K’s most successful pistol design. Every firearm has many “touchpoints” between the shooter and the firearm that are critical to consistent, repeatable performance. The touchpoints on the VP9 handguns may actually help you improve on the range.
HK VP9 pistols deliver an ergonomic, adjustable grip, best in class trigger, and are striker fired. Every detail including the grip angle, the front strap contour and high rear saddle were chosen to fit the human hand. Each VP trigger surpasses those found on the competition. The trigger has a short, light take-up with a solid, single action break followed by a short positive reset.
A striker-fired ignition and modified Browning operating system are combined with a precision strike trigger control system. Barrels, slides, springs, pins and internal components are machined from proprietary HK steel.
H&K’s VP9 Series includes: the VP9, HK VP9L OR (Optics Ready), VP9 Match Optics Ready, VP9-B Match Optics Ready, VP9 2020 Optics Ready, VP9SK, VP9SK Optics Ready and VP9 Tactical Optics Ready models.
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The VP9 is HK’s entry into striker-fired pistols. It’s reliable with great ergonomics and an incredibly clean trigger. The VP9 features a light, premium trigger, customizable grips, ambidextrous controls, an extended Picatinny rail, and an advanced striker-fired slide. Price on the VP9 is also quite reasonable – competitive with Glocks. The VP9 comes with different configurations, available in multiple colors and mag counts. The recent variants of the gun features optics-ready slides, a normal mag release button, and 17-round mags.
The VP Tactical Series is both optic ready and suppressor ready. The VP Series integrates a striker firing system with an enhanced, HK “light pull” trigger. HK’s cold hammer-forged barrel made from cannon grade steel with a threaded muzzle, VP9 customizable grip and suppressor-height tritium sights. These sights provide a lower 1/3 co-witness through the window of a red dot sight while remaining visible over the top of most suppressors.
Rear sight with serrations gives a cleaner, black sight. High-contrast color tritium front sight for fast day or night acquisition. Additionally, this model includes an optics cut that, when combined with one of five available adapter plates, accepts most popular red dot sights. Just add the appropriate suppressor and/or optic with no additional modifications needed. Includes three magazines, two additional backstraps, two additional sets of lateral grip plates and slide cover plate.
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The striker-fired Heckler & Koch VP9 9 x 19 mm semi-automatic pistol is by Heckler & Koch, a premier small arms manufacturer headquartered in Oberndorf in the southwest corner of Germany not far from France and Switzerland. While the gun is made there, it is imported by Heckler & Koch USA which maintains its primary North American sales offices in Columbus, Georgia and Ashburn, Virginia.
Key dimensions start with its 4.09” long barrel. The length is 7.34”, height is 5.41” and width is 1.32”. Weight with an empty magazine is 25.56 ounces, which is 1.6 pounds.
Many companies make pistols that seem to borrow from the same design. But the striker-fired Heckler & Koch VP9 9 x 19 mm semi-automatic pistol is different. Its design is functional, cohesive and purposeful and the gun comes in colors such as black, FDE and Midnight Bronze.
Let’s start with the slide. The slide has diagonal front and rear cocking serrations, but the ones at back are especially recessed while a long bevel channels from the front of the slide through the front serrations to about midway. The company initials HK, the gun’s VP9 and “9 mm x 19” are engraved along the left. Also at the back of the slide are two extrusions HK calls charging supports that make it even easier to grip the slide for charging.
The front and back sights are standard three dot white night sights, and in between them is a sight radius of 6.38”. (As of 2020, front is white dot and the back is black.) That said, the slide is already pre-cut for optical sights and comes with a placeholder rectangular cap plate to permit owners to upgrade to more than five different reflex optical sight adapter plates to mount optical sights from Trijicon, Leupold, C-More, Burriss and more.
At back is a ready to fire indicator.
It’s not surprising that Heckler & Koch has used a polymer frame since it was an early pioneer in this area for firearms. Moving to the polymer frame, the disassembly lever and one slide release are both on the left. They have matching horizontal serrations and similar proportions. On the right is a long lever slide release. The beavertail is docked.
The barrel is cold-hammer forged and has a six-sided polygonal bore instead of grooving, which is a more expensive, but more efficient system of keeping gases behind the bullet on its way out. The barrel has a 1 to 9.8” right-hand twist.
Below the muzzle is a four slot Picatinny MIL-STD-1913 rail molded into the frame for accessories.
The trigger guard has an almost flat forward face with horizontal serrations and a gentle bulge below the trigger. As it moves toward the grip, it has a shallow undercut and, very interestingly, paddle magazine releases on the back of the trigger guard instead of circular or rectangular one aft of it on the pistol grip where they are normally. It’s worth noting that there is also a Heckler & Koch VP9-B (as in button) North American market only model that has the more traditional button magazine releases in place of the paddles.
Inside the trigger guard is a VP trigger with a built in safety. Trigger pull is 4.5 to 5.4 pounds, while trigger travel is only a quarter of an inch.
The grip has three finger recesses, mild texturing and three curved horizontal bands that curved vertical ones to evoke a large spider web. The grip panels and the backstrap are all removable and can be replaced with others, and each gun comes with three different pairs of grip panels and three different backstraps.
The Heckler & Koch VP9 has many configurations based on color, number of magazines, and whether or not it comes with night sights. The standard black VP9 comes with either two 10-round or 17-round HK P30 pistol steel magazines, while the VP9-B with the button mag release has either two 10 or 15-round mags. The VP9 is also available in either FDE or Midnight Bronze with either 10 or 15-round magazines and with or without night sights.
All VP9s are also compatible with 17 and 10-round magazines.
Regardless of capacity, the magazines are not fully flush as their floorplates extend below the pistol grip.
The Heckler & Koch VP9 guns are Made in Germany.
Heckler and Koch VP9 Features
Looking for a high-quality and innovative pistol? Look no further than the Heckler and Koch VP9! This striker-fired HK pistol is well-suited for civilian sport shooting, security, military, and law enforcement use.
The VP Series is Heckler & Koch‘s first striker-fired pistol since the P7 series pistols introduced in the 1980s. The HK VP9 is chambered in 9mm with a 4.09 inch barrel and comes with two 17 or 10-round magazines. It also features interchangeable backstraps for a custom fit and improved ergonomics.
The Heckler and Koch VP9 is designed to be a high-performing, reliable firearm that is perfect for a variety of uses. Its unique design features include completely ambidextrous controls, including charging supports, which provide better gripping leverage for racking the slide rearward.
This Heckler & Koch 9mm pistol also has an extended Picatinny MIL-STD-1913 rail molded into its polymer frame for mounting lights and accessories, and a proprietary captive flat recoil spring helps reduce recoil forces, improving shooter control during rapid firing and prolonging component service life.
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Heckler and Koch VP9 Specifications
- Brand: HK
- Category: Pistols
- Caliber: 9mm Luger
- Model: VP
- Capacity: 17+1
- Action: Striker Fire
- Frame Finish: Black
- OAL: 7.34″
- Frame Material: Polymer
- Hand: Right
- Sight Style: Contrast
- Slide Finish: Black
- Slide Material: Steel
- Slide Description: Serrated Black Steel
- Twist: 1:9.80″
- Magazine Type: OEM
- Grips: Finger Grooved Black Interchangeable Backstrap
- Sight Configuration: 3-Dot
- Includes: 2 Magazines
- Safety: Firing Pin, Trigger
- Barrel Description: 4.09″ Polygonal Rifled
- Barrel Length: 4.09″
- Max Capacity: 17
- Weight: 25.56 oz
- Frame Description: Black Polymer with Picatinny Rail & Serrated Trigger Guard
The VP9 is Heckler & Koch’s latest, and most successful pistol design. We are pleased to announce that H&K VP 9 pistols will be shipped with the following upgrades:
VP9 doesn’t just feel great. It shoots great.
Of course, the updated models retain all the existing features of the VP that have quickly made the VP series a class leader in ergonomics and trigger performance.
Additional features of Heckler & Koch VP9
After four years of development, Heckler & Koch has released the VP9, their new polymer-framed striker-fired 9mm. This pistol bases its design on their hammer- fired P30 but has some major divergences. This article will evaluate the new pistol and take a look at its hammerfired parent.
A striker-fired mechanism typically results in a pistol that is simpler and less expensive to manufacture and easier to maintain. The last two factors are important considerations for military and law enforcement contracts. Not since the end of production of their iconic P7 has Heckler & Koch offered a striker-fired pistol.
Heckler & Koch’s first polymer-framed handgun, the long discontinued HK VP70, was striker fired. They have advanced a long way since then with polymer-framed guns, beginning with the USP family of pistols that was introduced over 20 years ago.
POLYMER-FRAMED HKs
All polymer-framed HKs, from the USP to the latest HK VP9, are solidly made. They feature polygonal-bored hammer-forged barrels for greater strength, accuracy and wear resistance. All their slides are made from high-strength steel, with HK’s “Hostile Environment” corrosion-resistant finish standard.
HK manufactures all their parts themselves rather than subcontract any out. This allows them to maintain high quality control and avoid the inconsistency problems that have surfaced with some other manufacturers.
The USP evolved into the P2000, which introduced an ambidextrous magazine release and slide release as standard features. This design philosophy carried forward to the HK45 and the P30 as well as the new VP9. While the P30’s left side slide release doubles as a takedown lever, the VP9 employs a separate takedown lever.
HK’s VP9 effectively puts a newly-designed slide on top of a P30 frame. It uses the 15-round magazines from the P30, and it comes with two of those in the black plastic case along with small, medium, and large backstraps and side panels, a magazine loader, owner’s manual, fired case, decal, and HK gun lock. Laser cut foam ensures that everything has its place.
Like the rest of the HK pistol line, the VP9 sports a cold hammer forged barrel with polygonal rifling. GLOCK might be known for being definitively un-groovy, but H&K did it first with the P7. (edit: first pistol w/ polygonal rifling may have been HK’s P9, actually)
As you’d expect, that barrel drops into the steel slide and locks up Browning short-recoil style with a linkless cam. A flat-wire recoil spring is captured by a steel guide rod. The rotating striker block is pretty interesting — I think the HK P7 works similarly.
I dig the beefy steel inserts in the reinforced polymer frame and the thick metal parts in general. There’s decent rail real estate and some stout lugs, including the disassembly lever lug that you can see rotated 90* clockwise in the photo above, which allows the slide to slide off the front. Heckler & Koch certainly has a reputation for reliability, and this pistol looks tough.
Ergos
More or less identical to the HK P30 frame, the VP9 feels amazing in the hand. I love this grip texture. There’s a ton of similarity between this pistol and the Walther PPQ, and my thoughts about the PPQ being one of the nicest-to-grip guns out there carries right over to the VP9 here. I mean they are really, really similar.
Actually, the VP9 is more similar to the first generation of PPQ since they both employ trigger guard-located, paddle magazine release levers. These are great because they are fully ambidextrous and can be easily activated by your strong or support hand, while likely being less likely to get activated accidently. We aren’t really used to this in the U.S. though, and it takes some training to become proficient and to choose your lever press method of choice, as options include strong hand thumb, index finger, or middle finger as well as support hand digits.
HK takes grip customization a step further than the norm by offering not only interchangeable backstraps, but side panels as well. S, M, and L for both mean you can alter the front-to-rear size and shape (backstrap ‘hump’) as well as the palm swell width. Swapping any of these requires driving out a pin in the butt of the grip.
This allows the backstrap to slide down and unlock, which, once removed from the frame, allows the side panels to slide rearwards off of their grooves and off the frame as well. Any size backstrap can be mated with any size side panels, and you can even run a thicker side panel on one side vs. the other — dream big, don’t limit yourself.
The slide catch lever is extended towards the rear of the pistol as on many of HK’s other offerings (and on the PPQ), but on the VP9 that extension happens inside of the frame. Well, at least on the left side. This leaves a more or less standard-sized lever on that side of the gun, while on the right side the lever runs outside of the frame.
That one’s nice and flush with the frame, though, so it shouldn’t get in your way while still offering ambidextrous operation of the only shooting control other than the mag release. That is to say there’s no manual safety like you’ll find on most other HK pistols.
One feature by which the VP9 really does differentiate itself is what HK calls “charging supports.” These polymer ears on the rear of the slide give you a little something extra to grab onto when racking or otherwise manipulating it. The interwebs chatter makes these seem a little controversial, but I gotta tell you, they do work.
Whether you’re a fan of pinching the slide between thumb and forefinger or grabbing over the top, these little tabs give you extra purchase and make accidently slipping off the back really hard to do. They also provide a solid, tactile reference point. I’m sure they’ll be a big help to anyone with limited hand/grip strength.
Although they barely add thickness to the pistol — considering they don’t stick out farther than some of the controls — if they aren’t your cup of tea they can be removed. Drift the rear sight off, lift the polymer piece out the top, and put the sight back on.
Sights
THE RED STRIKER TIP IS VISIBLE THROUGH A HOLE IN THE SLIDE PLATE WHEN THE STRIKER IS COCKED
Glow-in-the-dark (must be charged by a light source), 3-dot sights are standard and Tritium sights are optional or sold separately. I found the bright green-ish dots to be crisp, clean and easy to see. The shape and sharp edges of the sights made alignment easy, and the width of the rear notch vs. the width of the front blade struck a pretty good balance between tactical/defensive (lots of light on either side of the front blade for quicker acquisition) and target (less light for ease of more precise alignment).
Trigger
While much better than the vast majority of the striker-fired market, this is the one category in which the VP9 can’t match the PPQ. The trigger stroke is a bit longer, there’s a bit more creep, and the reset is longer while also being a bit softer.
To be clear, it’s a very good trigger for a striker-fired pistol. Like the PPQ, the VP9 is single action in the true sense of the term. Pulling the trigger serves only to release the striker, which is already fully cocked by the cycling of the slide. This is in contrast to the majority of striker-fired pistols on the market where the trigger pull must first cock or finish cocking the striker before releasing it. In theory this could leave the VP9 with a 1911-like, super short, light, and crisp trigger, but in practice that isn’t the case (“In theory, practice is the same as theory”). Clearing the striker block safety requires extra trigger travel, and there’s plenty of sear engagement here that adds just a touch of creep.
The trigger on my VP9 rental loaner measured very consistently at 5.4 to 5.5 lbs every time, which is right in-line with HK’s published weight of 5.4 lbs. I have absolutely no issue with this weight at all, but must say that I shot the 4.75 lb PPQ trigger better. Some (or even most) of that was probably also due to the crisper, shorter nature of the PPQ’s bang switch.
Magazines
High-quality, made in Germany. Interesting construction with the ‘zipper’ assembly down the back (see 2nd photo in “Ergos” section). The mags accept all 15 rounds without complaint; the last one inserting with no problem. Wide base pads combined with indentations at the bottom of the grip allow you to get a solid purchase to strip out the magazine if needed, but under normal conditions they spring right out of there.
I do have two magazine-related gripes, though:
Corners. The business end of these mags is covered in 90* corners. The feed lips poke your dang thumb. Regardless of the crap I’m going to get in the comments for whining about it, it would be a mistake not to point it out. I don’t think I’ve loaded up a pistol magazine before that was so tough on the thumbs. At least not a new one that hasn’t been worn sharp somewhere.
Magazine well. One more trip up to that 2nd photo in the “Ergos” section again. There’s no bevel. The edges all around the magwell are more 90* corners. Despite the taper at the top of the magazine I still found myself getting caught up on an edge of the magwell sometimes. I’m sure I’d figure it out with more time spent behind the VP9, but, you know, it’s no Jet Funnel. A few years ago I wouldn’t have thought much of this, but I’m coming to expect some degree of taper/bevel on new pistols.
Disassembly
Lock the slide back, rotate the takedown lever, then remove the slide off the front of the frame. No trigger pull is required.
Accuracy
From a sandbag rest at 15 yards, the VP9 turned in some pretty darn solid, 5-shot groups:
On The Range
The VP9 feels good in the hand, points naturally, and shoots pretty softly. The sights are quick to pick up and align on target. Balance is good and slide manipulation is easy — especially with those charging supports in addition to front and rear serrations.
With a slightly slimmer and smaller slide catch, I didn’t find myself blocking its ability to move upwards as often as I did on the PPQ. However, it still happened. I just love to ride my thumb on that area of the frame — muscle memory from riding the safety on my competition pistol — and it only takes a tiny amount of pressure to prevent it from locking the slide back.
As in the PPQ, this really wouldn’t be a problem if it was your go-to pistol since you’d learn around it, but for my purposes these extra-rearward slide catches are in the wrong place. Of course, they’re easy to reach so I understand the design intention.
Despite excellent mechanical accuracy, when fooling around on the range I didn’t shoot this gun as accurately as the PPQ. The difference there is the trigger. I think I was anticipating the VP9’s break a little, whereas the PPQ’s trigger is so short and crisp that I couldn’t screw up. Again though, the VP9 still has a great trigger and I still shot it very well.
Reliability is there. This rental gun already had 600-700 flawless rounds through it, according to the range, and I put another 250 through it on two outings. The vast majority of what I shot were minimum power factor reloads, but it also ate some factory ammo in varying weights and a mag’s worth of assorted hollow points. Nary a hitch, and the thing still looks brand new as it approaches the 1k rounds mark.
Conclusions
People will buy this HK for tactical/defensive purposes and the PPQ for target shooting purposes. It’s just the image of the companies, I suppose. After all, HK has those spec ops contracts. While I think the VP9 is a freakin’ sweet gun that will last a lifetime, is an awesome shooter, and is well-priced (at least for Heckler & Koch), I like the PPQ more and I’d lament anyone’s choice to purchase this pistol without also trying a PPQ. Either pistol is just as well-suited for hard use, but the PPQ’s trigger helps it excel on the range.
Of course, aesthetics are different and I did find the PPQ to have just a tad more muzzle flip. And the VP9 has wings.
Heckler & Koch VP9
It’s not the cheapest in the service pistol category, but I believe it offers the best value for dollar in terms of accuracy, reliability, ergonomics, and shootability.
ID Number | UPC Codes | Description | MSRP |
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VP9 Pistols, 9mm – supplied with two additional backstraps, two additional sets of lateral grip plates | |||
81000283 | 642230260207 | VP9, 9mm, two 17rd magazines | 839 |
81000223 | 642230260184 | VP9, 9mm, two 10rd magazines | 839 |
81000284 | 642230260214 | VP9, 9mm, three 17rd magazines and night sights | 949 |
81000224 | 642230260191 | VP9, 9mm, three 10rd magazines and night sights | 949 |
VP9 Pistols, 9mm, Optics Ready – supplied with two additional backstraps, two additional sets of lateral grip plates and slide cover plate | |||
81000483 | 642230259959 | VP9, Optics Ready, 9mm, two 17rd magazines | 899 |
81000485 | 642230259973 | VP9, Optics Ready, 9mm, two 10rd magazines | 899 |
81000484 | 642230259966 | VP9, Optics Ready, 9mm, three 17rd magazines and night sights | 999 |
81000486 | 642230259980 | VP9, Optics Ready, 9mm, three 10rd magazines and night sights | 999 |
VP9 Push Button | |||
VP9-B Pistols, 9mm – supplied with two additional backstraps and two additional sets of lateral grip plates | |||
81000285 | 642230261891 | VP9-B, 9mm, two 17rd magazines | 839 |
81000263 | 642230258778 | VP9-B, 9mm, two 10rd magazines | 839 |
81000286 | 642230261907 | VP9-B, 9mm, three 17rd magazines and night sights | 949 |
81000264 | 642230258785 | VP9-B, 9mm, three 10rd magazines and night sights | 949 |