P32 "Sport"

SO occasionally here abouts someone or another bemoans the lack of a mid sized .32ACP.....

Got me to wondering (this is what happens when I am not kept too busy to stroll by the old desk top now and then) if someone with too much time on there hands and too much money and too many machine tools might not put together a P32 "Sport" sort of like the Walther PP "Sport of old days.

The grip can be made longer by simply purchasing the 10 round magazine/ grip extension and using it.

A barrel twice as long as the issue one would be needed.....or perhaps something like an un rifled section like on the .22 rifle "Bloop tubes" (assuming ATF has not decided they are suppressors, intentions or not) to get the additional length. Threaded on the end for a larger front sight unit (got to un thread and remove same to get barrel from slide) and the unit indexed by a simple v cut. Slide modified at the rear to take a higher and more visable rear sight. Perhaps fixed with an excentric front sight like on an UZI or Karl Gustav M45 (it is a screw to provide elevation adjustments with the front sight off center so turning the screw moves the front sight left or right as well, should be good enough for Joe Home owner) Or just go with fixed but much more visible sights.

Might make a good night stand gun for P32 owners. Should take same laser /light packages available for normal P32.

Wonder what it would cost Kel-Tec to make such a thing at the factory compared to normal P32? Or maybe offer modified slide and barrel unit to existing P32 owners? Make the rear sight fully adjustable with a fixed front blade and call it a match model.

-kBob

My first center fire handgun experience was a Walther PP that belonged to a neighbor. As a preteen it seemed massive, but amazingly the PP used by the Polizi when I lived in Neu Ulm and the Walther factory I NEVER VISITED (stupid youth brain) was across the river had shrunk a good bit. One of our gun club members shot the darn things at 100 meters one night to settle an argument with another member about the possibility of doing so. No shot hit the 50 meter ISU slow fire black, but all five he fired did hit the paper. Among the comments afterward where that a criminal at that range could catch the bullets and save them for reloading and later use. Strangely none of the laughers wanted to go down range and try to play catch.

I do have a soft spot for the FN1922 but yes a Colt 1903 would be nice. One keeps floating around from shop to shop locally but it appears to have been Rebel plating's test piece for the original Armaloy finish back around 1970-ish and is ooogly and way over priced. No idea how it shoots, but have seen it in various gun and or pawn shops with in a 60 mile radius for literally 20 years.

Yeah I was aware of the tilting lock barrel on the P32 I figured we could play with slide weight on the "new" slide and maybe the recoil spring. A buddy that makes suppressors had the devil of the time getting them to function with anything approaching reliability on 9x19mm and .45ACP service sized pistols a few decades back. Makes me wonder if some of the guns made for various military test that required functioning with a suppressor are beating themselves to death with every non suppressed shot.

-kBob

Just over at the Southern Ohio Guns site and they have Hungarian AP63 .32 ACP guns available. This is one of the many PP based not quite clones of Europe.

Tallball,

That is no nice looking Beretta. I seem to recall that one of the Bond films pre release ad/art posters for the movie houses featured one of those and no I mean besides the one with the air pistol in it.

Thanks for sharing it.

-kBob