TayNinh_66
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Another vote for Walther PPK. Had to buy one due to the mystique. Real piece of crap. Sold.
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Para Ordinance LTC. Such a pice of crap. Locked up with a live round first time out. Demanded a refund and after a few rounds with the FFL got a credit.
You get what you pay for.
And a Phoenix arms 22 has a life time guarantee and they fixed it for free every time it broke but it broke every time you shot it.
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Me too. I wanted one since I was a kid. Finally bought one and hated everything about it. Way too heavy, every edge was sharp as a steak knife, recoiled like a 50 cal, possibly the worst trigger I've ever pulled, etc. And mine was a Walther made in Germany. Supposedly the cream of the crop.Another vote for Walther PPK. Had to buy one due to the mystique. Real piece of crap. Sold.
Me too. I wanted one since I was a kid. Finally bought one and hated everything about it. Way too heavy, every edge was sharp as a steak knife, recoiled like a 50 cal, possibly the worst trigger I've ever pulled, etc. And mine was a Walther made in Germany. Supposedly the cream of the crop.
The recoil is stout in the 27, but in the 35 I find it to be fine and I think in the Gen 4's it's lessened due to the dual recoil spring. Ammo price is a reason it's still not a bad choice and you can get a 50 round box of bonded JHP for $22. Cheap 9mm JHP works too, but they're not as good a bullet as what the cheap .40 bonded JHP uses.It's pretty obvious, it's chambered in .40. The guns themselves are just fine, but the cartridge sucks.
I owned a G22 Gen4. Well built. Reliable. However, like shooting a mechanical bull, good luck keeping your support hand on the gun if you don't have an oven mitt for a hand. It was the last .40 I owned. Out of all the .40 handguns I had, I only tended to shoot the HKs and Sig P229s well, despite the arguably far worse
bore axis, I could actually crush grip those things and keep my support hand on them better.
Honestly a G20 with full power 10mm is easier for me to deal with than that thing was. I think it's just from the lack of slide mass.
Signed, a guy who used to own like a half dozen or more .40 SW handguns and now has none of them. (I don't really see what the point is anymore, outside of being a cheap cartridge for guns running in USPSA limited).
-Mike
I bought a German PPK/s .380 back ~1978, imported by Interarms. Worked well every time even with reloads.Walther PPK/S - piece of #$%!#$%, like another user said...would only fire the first round, wouldn't feed regardless of magazines.
Wasn't there some giant heavy boat anchor of a thing called a Llama at one point?
...I bought a Sig P938 on a whim, and would be happy to have that money back...
Wasn't there some giant heavy boat anchor of a thing called a Llama at one point?