[Servant of the 9]

First the 1911, now the PPK. Looks like the new S&W wants to become a one stop shop.
Wonder when they will produce a single action?

SO9

[AZ_Cowboy]

I was kind of wondering why they aren't making any attempt to get into the Single Action stuff as well. Colt is making money at it, and SASS is apparently doing rather well. Colt and S&W were the big two when it came to the Old West.

Then again, I have a bit of Cowboy Action bias here.

[Echo Talon]

strange... My dad has a Walther PPK. nice gun. good at close range, useless over 50 yards or so.

[al baby]

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[aspiring.hillbilly]

Its a lovely design, but with the 380 in single stack is a bit dated. There are 9mm's of that size out there,,,Khar's. For a cheaper smaller 380 look at the Kel-Tec. But nevertheless, I sure would like to have one, two, etc. New a guy who every time he bought a gun he would buy two of them. One to use and one just to have. LOL /p>

[Bombardier]

Let S and W bring back the Schofield. The prices Navy Arms are charging for their repro are ridiculous!

[Cobra64]

Wonder when they will produce a single action?

Probably never. Ruger will eat their lunch.

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[yarddog]

I hope this one turns out better than the ones made in Gadsden, Alabama. (For the record, I love Gadsden and can't figure out how they managed to not do a good job, but they did).

I have owned around a dozen Walthers, including SS PPK/s and TPH models. Both were jammers despite looking nice.

I hate to admit it but the post war PP's made by Manurhin in France have uniformly been great.

I might add that I have two Hungarian copies, one in .22 and one in .380, and I think I like them better than most of the real Walthers, and the price can't be beat.

[MD_Willington_1976]

I read about this some time ago, apparently they are tackling the issue of the slide biting back, if you've ever fired one (PPK) before sometimes the slide will give you a little "love bite"...

MD

[johnandrhonda]

My Dad brought back a Walther PPK from Germany after WWII. It's .22 caliber. Is it rare?

[Spktyr]

So, like every other semiauto pistol that S&W has copied or made under license lately, will this PPK/s have lousy tolerances and be a jam-o-matic? Or will it simply blow up (like the Smegma)?

[Vaquero]

you know the gun control act of 1968 banned importation of guns with barrels shorter than a certain length(which I forgot what that was....)this banned the ppk and limited importation to the PPK/S which was created to slip through the cracks....in the 80's and 90's Interarms manufactured PPK's in Viginia under license from Wather/Manurin....this bypassed the importation laws....now I guess S&W has the contract.....

if it werent for the GCA of 1968 we would be able to by genuine Wathers.....

[donozark]

Anyone looking for an underpowered but low-cost and reliable Walther PPK/s? Look to the Makarov. The "poor man's Walther..."

[dg62]

I have a question for those knowledgeable about firearms.

About a month ago, there was an attempted drug hit while I was over at a friends house. Two guys in one car chased two guys in another car out of the hood behind my friends neighborhood. Anyway, the gunshots were extremely loud, like pipe bombs. In fact, it was like you could hear the shots echo down the barrel making a metallic kind of sound. This was definitely not like the sharp/short crack or pop you hear from gunfire in the distance. It was so loud that we didn't think it was gunshots at first.

Any idea what kind of gun that might be?

[Cobra64]

I bought one in 1972, right out of college. Nice looking side-arm, from a chambering perspective, it was a POS.

[boris]

My PPK/S is my least favorite gun. Bites, shoots left (nothing my 'smith can do about it), stiff. About as bad as a "good" gun can get.

--Boris

[toomanygrasshoppers]

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