You know, for as finnicky as folks say that Walther PP Series pistols are, my Smith & Wesson PPK/S has never malfunctioned once, and I once spent an entire afternoon at the range trying to cause a malfunction.
I got it dirty, limp-wristed it, shot it sideways (gangsta-style) because I heard they would malfunction if I ever had to fire one from a horizontal position, shot it upside down, shot it after my hands became all shaky towards the end of the trip, complete with combinations of all of the above.
No, I didn't do anything too terribly elaborate like your average YouTube Torture Test, but to me the fact that it continued to function while dirty, with a weak grip, in an awkward position, and with shaky hands, it performs in anything but a worst case scenario in which you dropped it into a mud puddle then call a time-out while you bent over and fished it out as your attacker politely waits for you to retrieve it. In other words, it will function in real life just fine.
Ah, but then again, all of the self-proclaimed experts on the Walther Forums insisted to me that all S&W manufactured PPKs were horribly unreliable pieces of junk that couldn't get through a single magazine without malfunctioning, so I suppose that mine is just special or something.
Oh, and it's worth noting that my S&W PPK/S has had absolutely nothing special done to it, unless you count changing out the grips, and during my testing I actually used Remington UMC, which everyone told me (after I bought it, of course) was terrible ammo that no PPK would ever cycle because it's too weak and dirty to cycle the action.
