In 2004 the German company Heckler & Koch’s product catalog was released at an industry trade show. Unfortunately their photographer didn’t notice that their cartridges had been loaded backwards into the magazine.
This sparked a meme of sorts among HK enthusiasts where they would mimic the error stating that was infact the correct way for HK pistols.
Here’s two examples:
Everyone truly is pretending they know what they are doing. Any interesting stories you can tell from your time at HK?
The coolest thing I experienced was in my apprenticeship. I got choosen to help prepare the shooting range for investors but they left without really shooting anything so I and another apprentice could shoot basically all still produced products except MGs and grenade launchers.
The most interesting things I shot that day were an MP5k in a briefcase, a silenced MP7 which was really quiet, an HK417 in full-auto which was uncontrollable, the G28 (Bundeswehr version of the civil version of the HK417) on a long shooting range and the prototype of the HK433.
That’s pretty neat. What was your impression of the HK433?
I didn’t see or feel much difference to the HK416 or G36 since it’s basically a hybrid of those two. It’s another gas-operated 5,56mm assault rifle with little to no recoil but it looks really cool.
They didn’t know how bullets worked