Matti wrote:Maybe someone who is using LP 400 can share his opinion and fillings about it. Difficult to find any information about LP400 anywhere.
LP10 is not well balanced pistol in my opinion, how is with LP400? The same weight fillings?
I had the opportunity to try a little the LP400.
First impression, the carbon version looks very nice, it is a beautifull pistol and it seems really well built. I never liked the design of the LP300(XT) but the LP400 looks much better. The aluminium version is a kind of LP10 clone.
Second impression, it is really a lightweigth pistol, switching from an LP300XT to a LP400 is an impressive weight reduction. Now is that good for the performances, to be tried but I have no problem with an heavier pistol (I have added two additional weigths on my LP10) and would think that without additional weigths, it is too low for an adult shooter.
Third impression, the grip is very flat, it gives a really strange impression in the hand. It feels so strange that I switched to an LP300XT and indeed, the shape of the grip of the LP400 is different. This was confirmed by a Walther technician: they changed the shape to make it flatter (but he couldn't give me any technical motivation to do so). He also told me that the LP400 and LP300 grips are not exchangeable, this is due to the new 3D grip adjustement system (you can now remove the grip and be sure that it will be at the same position when you put it back what was not the case with the LP300 = a great improvement... but this is the case for more than 10 years on the LP10). From the short test I did, I must say that I definitely do not like the shape of the LP400 grip (I am used to the shape of the Rink grip).
Some other impressions: the trigger seems OK, nothing special to say about it after a short test. Same for the sigths.
So, globally, if you except the grip shape (not that important since Rink will soon have a grip for the LP400), it seems a nice pistol and seen the importance of the design for selling a pistol, I think it will have more success than the LP300.
Now, compared to the LP10, I do not see any reason to prefer the LP400 which is a kind of LP10 clone (especially the aluminium version) it has nothing that the LP10 doesn't have while the LP10 is the leading pistol with now two types of trigger, so for me the LP10 remain a better, proven choice.
From a price point of view, in my country, the LP400 is more expensive than the LP10 and less expensive than the LP10E.