FN Five-seveN - very neat little gun! *now with video x 2*

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my dad picked up a FN Herstal Five-seveN this last summer but i wasnt able to meet up with him and have a look at it until this week.
wowsers is that a neat little gun!
it is soooooo different then any other pistol ive handled and shot that it is definitely in a league of its own.
is it a good league or a bad league..... i dont know yet, but its definitely a neat league!

right off the get go the gun just 'feels' strange in the hands.
its ALL plastic!
well, not plastic but what passes as plastic in the gun world - polymer.
while the barrel and internal parts are all metal everything is covered in polymer which gives the gun a very 'toy feel'.
that plastic feel coupled with the weight of the pistol at only 1.3 pounds it makes for a very strange feeling gun.
the stippling on the grip is the most aggressive i have ever felt on any gun, i would almost say it borders on painful when you are gripping the gun hard. now this is going to be hard to explain - but the gun feels big, and it is big, but only on the grip. the bullets are like miniture .223 bullets so they are long so the mags are extra long which in turn makes the grip of the gun extra long from back to front.
so its big to hold but not like a Glock where the grip is just fat but its extra long from forward to back to accommodate the bullets which makes for a extra strange feel in the hand.

so what do we have so far.
well, we have a strange feeling gun.
its strange because its big in the grip, its strange because its all plastic, its strange because its so light.
so if we left now we would leave with a bad taste about this gun and we would never come back to it.

but in walks the deal breaker.... the cartridge.
the strange 5.7x28mm bullet is mind blowing!
im not going to bore anyone with its concept and how it came into being because that is what Google and Wikipedia are for so you can go read up on it on your own time, but wow...... wow dosnt even cover this..... holy hell wow is this a neat round!
it is seriously a miniature .223 round!
you are basically shooting a rifle round with a pistol!
but that isnt the mind blowing feature of this gun, where it messes with your mind is when you shoot it..... there is NO RECOIL!
ya, i just said that!
NO RECOIL!
your shooting a round that is trucking along so fast that is can penetrate bullet proof vests, its one of the flattest shooting rounds out there, when you pull the trigger its a FIRE BREATHING DRAGON, it kicks out a concussion wave very similar to shooting a 460 or 500 S&W Magnum..... yet there is no recoil.

ya, i just blew your mind.

i didnt believe it, i had heard about it, i had been told about it but until you saddle up behind one and let her buck you dont know anything about it.
it is a trip!
i was giggling like a school girl!
(ok, a big hairy school girl with a beard, but school girl non the less)

so my conclusion;
gun - very cool!
will i ever buy one.
no.
very expensive gun and very expensive ammo and very very hard to find ammo.
but it is definitely one of THE neatest and nicest shooting guns i have EVER shot, and what that round can do to its target makes it super hella cool.
IF the day ever came along where the price on these dropped down to around $1000 and the ammo became readily available for a reasonable price AND i could pick up the rifle version of this gun (PS-90) i would pick it all up and i would clear out 1/2 my collection of guns and i would be a super happy camper.

super neat gun, dont pass up a chance to try one if you can, its worth going out of your way to try.

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oh one thing!

i HATE where the safety is on this gun!
hate hate hate!

i put my support hand on the other side and i have my thumb up parallel to my trigger finger and it naturally goes right onto the safety.
id be concerned about my thumb toggling the safety when shooting.

did i have that problem, no.
i was afraid it was going to happen but with the little to no recoil it didnt happen.

but it could.
 
That cartridge IS mind blowing. I get suspicious when I start hearing claims like those...but others have said exactly what you have. We really need an official Gunnut range report, North. I think you should confiscate that pistol and do us all a public service by wringing it out! Can you even get reloading dies for it yet?
 
One Lung Wonder said:
That cartridge IS mind blowing. I get suspicious when I start hearing claims like those...but others have said exactly what you have. We really need an official Gunnut range report, North. I think you should confiscate that pistol and do us all a public service by wringing it out! Can you even get reloading dies for it yet?
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oh i had it out at the range!
i would have loved to put 200-500 down the pipe but at $0.70 a pop i only put a box through it.
 
I tried one of those the last time I was in Vegas. I absolutely love the idea of a rifle round being fired from a pistol. I agree with you 100% about owning that pistol. The safety is in an absolutely horrible position. The trigger was also the worst. Kinda like pulling through grit.

I hope someone makes a decent pistol for that round. I will buy in a second!
 
wayupnorth said:
here is the video i made.

*WARNING!*
i put some real mind rotting music in it that will eat into your brain, you've been warned!
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The music's cool-- I'm old enough to remember it--but OMG I'm too drunk to follow how you're flipping the pistol around in the video. Maybe once I've sobered up I'll be able to handle it but for now it's way too much flipping right and then left and then right again.
 
Master-G said:
The music's cool-- I'm old enough to remember it--but OMG I'm too drunk to follow how you're flipping the pistol around in the video. Maybe once I've sobered up I'll be able to handle it but for now it's way too much flipping right and then left and then right again.
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haha, ya i watched it too and noticed i was flipping it around.
i think it was because it was so light i was trying to see if it would float away.
that is the excuse im going with.
 
Kevin M. said:
They are neat guns. I quite enjoy mine, though I do feel you somewhat overstated how big the concussion of the round actually is.
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its been said more then a few times that i can spin a yarn.
and your right, it is no where near the wave from a big boy, but it did catch me off guard and surprise me!
 
I have to be honest. I am kind of cheap. This gun/ammo maybe the next big thing. But at $1400/1000 rounds (last I heard) and non reloadable to boot not for the faint of heart. I looked into this gun a while ago, hot to get one and advice I got here still holds. Compared to a .22 Mag round, this round isn't enough better to be worth the high cost of ammo or the cost of the gun. I have a .22 Mag and it works pretty well.
 
I think fast pistol rounds ROCK. I am gonna be picking up a Tokarev in 7.62x25 Tok soon. (I love bottleneck pistol cartridges) . I just bought a TAURUS Tracker in .17HMR cause I love the thoughts of a LASER FLAT pistol. Can't wait for it to come. Now I see this little sweetheart of a pistol and I think I may have found the perfect finish for my bottleneck pistol cartridge TRIFECTA.
 
Another one to consider in this class is the KelTec PMR 30. It shoots the 22WMR round, its a flat shooter, huge muzzle flash, minimal recoil, plus its got all the "cool factor" things the OP mentioned, the polymer body and mag, etc. 22WMR is cheap and the pistol itself can be had for half the price of the FN Five-Seven. I always have a line up of "can I try it?" guys at the range when I bring it out.
 
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