Spent the day with an old friend...... Walther PPK

[BAM-BAM]

Yesterday I was going somewhere that I knew would not be gun friendly...... so decided to leave the 3913/6906 at home ...... dug out my old "suit gun" a Interarms Walther .380 PPK with Hogue checkered wood grips and it's Sparks Summer Special holster.

carrying it and a spare 7rd mag w/ an " X-grip' adapter was like carrying nothing at all.

While inches and ounces matter in concealed carry ...... I think we sometimes go beyond what is needed .....simply because we can.

Think I'll put it back into the hot summer days concealed carry/errand running roll for my quiet "Burb of the Burgh"

 

[BAM-BAM]

Sorry no pics...... House rule...... teenagers and the internet..... maybe in 12 months when the youngest graduates ......

I've got three...

mid-80s PPK .380 stainless.... with the Hogue Grips and custom beavertail ( no bites for me ) in .380 it was my suit/Tux gun until I got my first S&W 3913.

A Blue .380 Interarms PPK still in the box I found in a LGS at <$500 a few years back.....could not resist at that price

And a .32 PPK/s stainless I found in a LGS for <$400 with 4 mags....... again could not resist!!!!!!!


Not my first choice for EDC these days........but will do the job ...... if deployed as designed ...... close range self defense!!!!!

Yours came with holsters...... carry it ........ at least to the next Bond movie!!!!!

 

[colt_saa]

I really enjoy the Walther PP family of pistols. I have been dhoting them for 20 or 30 years now.

I have several 380s and I just bought another German 22 PPK/s that I have to go pick up from the dealer. It is not a pretty one, but the price was too good to pass up

This first one is a pristine German 9MM Kurz PPK

Got lucky finding this one in 22LR

2015s bonus check got this American PPK one a scratched up

I already have one of the current 22LR PPK/s pisols for suppressed use
but it is just not German

The next bonus check is going to have one or two of the German 22s ghost threaded for a suppressor

None of my others are photographed

 

[colt_saa]

Just had to try her out. It took a few shots to figure out how to hold it without getting bitten, but after that it was a joy to shoot. Ran great.

One of the things that I like about the ones built by Smith and Wesson is that they extended the tang and now those of us with some flesh between our thumb and fore finger are safe from Walther Bite

I wish the Germans would have done that 90 years ago

 

[gwpercle]

Awesome ! Have a soft spot for the old PPK.
That's OK about no photo's.....I'm so computer illiterate I can't post photo's so I don't complain about the lack of photo's by other's .
This computer business is hard on us who grew up with radio and black and white TV....just so much I can't grasp.
Gary

 

[Echo40]

The Walther PPK/S is my all-time favorite semiautomatic pistol. I own two of them, one of which is my EDC, a Stainless S&W PPK/S .380 ACP, and the other my range plinker, a matte black German (2013) PPK/S in .22LR.

One of these days, (whenever Walther Arms gets them on the market) I would like to get my hands on one of the new Fort Smith AR manufactured PPK/S with a Melonite finish.

 

[robertrwalsh]

I almost never shoot mine any more. Darn thing bites me every time I shoot it. If you have fat hands it is not a user friendly weapon.

 

[mrchuck]

I have found that quite a few people at gun shows do not Know what the Initials PP and PPK stand for.
PP is pistole polizi, and PPK is pistole polizi kriminal.
The PP is the larger size carried in a flap-over holster on his uniform.
The PPK is for the plain-clothed Detective and carried in their coat pocket.

 

[les.b]

Well, BAM-BAM, I guess I'll have to bring out my PPK collection of two!!!

Here is my first one, a .380, bought around 1979-80 on a LE exemption to the 68 prohibtion on import:

I still have the original box, docs, and extra magazine. I used to carry this when I was working undercover, but never abused...

Here is my other PPK, a .32, made around 1940 (IIRC), and in less than pristine condition. Great shooter, crack in the right hand Grip, as you can see.

Best Regards, Les

 

[BAM-BAM]

Sweeet guns....... Bond aside they were "the coool small gun" from 1963 until the ASP came out ........by the late 80s the 3913 hit the market and replaced them both.

But by then the world had something new in the Glock 26/27s ..... not really better IMHO... too thick & blocky for my taste...... just newer!!!!! Thou 10 9mms were nice..........had and sold two in the late 80s with the picky extension on the magazine and rounding the trigger guard ..... the 26 was OK...... a bit better than the 669............ but when the 3913 and 6906s hit the marked ....it was..... good-by to the Glocks

 

[Echo40]

I almost never shoot mine any more. Darn thing bites me every time I shoot it. If you have fat hands it is not a user friendly weapon.

There's a specific way you can grip a PPK(/S) to help mitigate slide bite by placing your thumb over the space were your middle finger meets your ring finger. It feels a bit awkward, but you'll get used to it, and it doesn't throw off your aim either, or at least not as much as having a slide slice into the back of your hand anyway.

Personally, that's one reason why I like the extended beavertail on Smith & Wesson models.

 

[Texas Star]

I just have slim hands, lucky me!

I've wondered whether if Bond was real, would he have been issued a new PPK, or a wartme captured one? The Brits are pretty tight financially and don't like guns much...

I also think his under the dash gun in the Bentley may have been a prewar Colt .45 auto or even a National Match example with fixed sights sent to the UK about 1940. Fleming just called it a long-barreled .45 Colt.

 

[daddy bear]

I have owned several PPK AND PPK/S in .380, .32, and .22. I even carried a TPH .22 for several years. Talk about concealed, the little TPH was great and it beat not having anything by a good measure. I. Eventually abandoned the Walthers for the simplicity of 60s and 42s. I really wish this post had not appeared. I miss the little Walthers.....

Jack

 

[Spokes]

I think I will have to dig out my little PPK and take it to the range next week. Glad I read this post..

 

[BAM-BAM]

Looks like I opened up a few safes to dig out some other old friends...................

Les Nice little .32 PPK....while most, myself included, would not pick a .32 as my first choice for carry....... that might make a nice suit/tux gun..... 2 to 8 .32s would dissuade most ................ .32 centerfire is more reliable than a .22lr rimfire

X-grip makes a nice little grip extender for the PPK to use PP magazines. I've got one for the extra magazine for my .380 PPK.... giving me 6+1 ; +7.

 

[10mmauto]

Here's my PPK/L:

 

[BAM-BAM]

Always wondered why they didn't make more alloy frame guns.... maybe not in the 30s but in the 50s-80s....... the technology was there?????????

 

[gwpercle]

I have found that quite a few people at gun shows do not Know what the Initials PP and PPK stand for.
PP is pistole polizi, and PPK is pistole polizi kriminal.
The PP is the larger size carried in a flap-over holster on his uniform.
The PPK is for the plain-clothed Detective and carried in their coat pocket.

You would not believe how many people get that wrong . There was an article in Handguns Magazine , last year, the writer
thought the K stood for Kurtz.... the magazine editor thought that also but asked if any of the readers knew . I had a book on the PPK which stated the K stood for Kriminal and believed it correct . After a few back and forth Emails I located and sent him some old Walther catalog pages from the 1930's where Walther uses the term Kriminal several times. I think he finally believed me but I never saw anything in the magazine definitely putting the meaning of K as Kriminal.
So if anyone says the K is for Kurtz....it's not ...it stands for Kriminal !
Gary

 

[Texas Star]

As a man who has published over 5,000 articles in magazines and newspapers and dealt with a variety of editors, I can assure you, they usually think they're smarter than anyone else.

You are correct: the meaning was Kriminal, not Kurz.

 

[Texas Star]

Someone should find and post the photo of Gen. Patton firing a captured PPK. I saw that last week, and was intrigued. I think it's the only picture I've seen of him actually firing a gun.