{"id":21581,"date":"2022-12-20T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/book-review-vickers-guide-heckler-koch-volume-1\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T07:00:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T13:00:47","slug":"book-review-vickers-guide-heckler-koch-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/book-review-vickers-guide-heckler-koch-volume-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Vickers Guide Heckler &#038; Koch Volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t1O9zF0R_R0?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Only available direct from Vickers Guide:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vickersguide.com\/hk-vol1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.vickersguide.com\/hk-vol1-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Vickers Guide series of books by Larry Vickers and James Rupley began as beautifully photographed firearms art books &#8211; and that&#8217;s all they claim to be today. However, with the release of Heckler &#038; Koch Volume 1, the series is doing something really cool: it&#8217;s leaning into the reference\/research realm without compromising its artistic vision. This book includes a third coauthor, James Williamson of Teufelhund Tactical. Between him and Vickers, this book has a remarkable amount of detailed information about the history and development of H&#038;K handguns.<\/p>\n<p>Hanguns, I should say, are the subject of this volume &#8211; SMGs and long guns will apparently be covered in Volumes 2 and 3 (yet to be published). Here we start with the HK4 (essentially an improved version of the Mauser HSc), move through H&#038;K&#8217;s classic non-Browning action designs like the VP70, P7, and P9, and then into the USP series. The Mk 23 is covered in its own specific chapter, and the modern H&#038;K commercial pistols are explored in detail as well (P2000, VP9, P30). The development of the HK45 is also covered in detail, as Larry Vickers was heavily involved in that program.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I wish I&#8217;d had this book available when I was filming some of my older H&#038;K handgun videos. 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Oracle 36270<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only available direct from Vickers Guide:https:\/\/www.vickersguide.com\/hk-vol1-1 The Vickers Guide series of books by Larry Vickers and James Rupley began as beautifully photographed firearms art books &#8211; and that&#8217;s all they claim to be today. However, with the release of Heckler &#038; Koch Volume 1, the series is doing something really cool: it&#8217;s leaning into the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/book-review-vickers-guide-heckler-koch-volume-1\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: Vickers Guide Heckler &#038; Koch Volume 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":21582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}