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1999 SHOT Show & HK brochure
My ‘
K’ obsession started at the
1999 SHOT Show. I was there to take photos of new stuff for
GunNews Magazine. I happened to stop by the
HK booth to see what’s new and to gather as many different brochures for our editor to go through for details on said new items.
I saw this brochure at the far end of the booth table and picked it up for my own info.
When I got back home after
SHOT I started going through all the photos and all the 30+ brochures /thumb drives/promo items I took.
When I got to the
HK Weapons Systems I fixated on one particular gun… the
MP5K-PDW.
Years before this I had bought a very lightly used
HK94 for $250 through a friend who owned a sporting goods store. In less than a month I sent it to ‘Wild’ Bill Fleming (R.I.P.) to turn into a semi-auto replica of an MP5A3, registered SBR.
I really liked this gun and even took it to
MT once on a prairie dog hunt. (after 8 ‘ranging’ shots a hit @ 106 yards!)
Eventually I sold the 94/SBR to a good friend.
Skip ahead to 2016 when I bought the
MKE Z-5P. Five years after that I found the
HK brochure in a box of files and the SBR idea came back to life. And here it is 23 years later: