Just posting this to see if anyone else has had this experience with their PPS and also to get general thoughts on the matter.
I was just shooting bowling pins at my club last night and one of the members was shooting his Walther PPS 9mm. He gets up to shoot and the backstrap on the PPS falls off, disabling the gun. Turns out the plastic catch that keeps the backstrap on the gun sheared/rounded off and no longer engaged the metal ledge on the frame. A simple fix is obviously to get a new backstrap but it seems to me that its a part that should be redesigned to be more heavy duty. I would not want to one day need it only to find the backstrap pops off. I liked the PPS, still do for its overall size and features but the backstrap safety is a feature thats got to go. Its an answer to an non existant problem The more complicated you make a gun the more likley it is to fail when needed. Thankfully he was only up against a gang of eight angry bowling pins.
If walther does away with the backstrap safety, then the PPS will go back on my wish list.
Your thoughts please...
I was just shooting bowling pins at my club last night and one of the members was shooting his Walther PPS 9mm. He gets up to shoot and the backstrap on the PPS falls off, disabling the gun. Turns out the plastic catch that keeps the backstrap on the gun sheared/rounded off and no longer engaged the metal ledge on the frame. A simple fix is obviously to get a new backstrap but it seems to me that its a part that should be redesigned to be more heavy duty. I would not want to one day need it only to find the backstrap pops off. I liked the PPS, still do for its overall size and features but the backstrap safety is a feature thats got to go. Its an answer to an non existant problem The more complicated you make a gun the more likley it is to fail when needed. Thankfully he was only up against a gang of eight angry bowling pins.
If walther does away with the backstrap safety, then the PPS will go back on my wish list.
Your thoughts please...