they work AMAZINg! German made really good guns back then. BUY NOW, and give us a COOL range report!Any of these work? Or does it just need new mag springs?
Every SINGLE ONE OF THEM!@#$!@#!@#!!they work AMAZINg!
was being sarcasticEvery SINGLE ONE OF THEM!@#$!@#!@#!!
I would agree that the PP is generally more reliable than the K, but I would rank it .32 ok and the others far from ok. Just my personal experience with the type.If you are asking about the Ranger manufactured PPK...manufactured between 1978-1999...as opposed to the PPK/S, they really fall into two categories. It will either work flawlessly, or almost not at all...and the only way of telling is by shooting them.
If you have a chance, Walther PP models are usually much more reliable. The PP family ( PP, PPK, PPK/S) is usually most reliable in .32ACP, followed by the .22LR and then the .380
Wow, thanks for the story and your service!I took a 1966 West German Walther PPK to South Vietnam in 1968 because I could as a 97B Sargent with plain clothes authorization. I spoke Vietnamese pretty fluently after 84 weeks of training and was all James Bond up at the time. I arrived over there with my PPK in a very light Hardy Shoulder Holster I bought in California along with the gun . I brought the two mags thegun came with and a box of 50 Geco Cupro Nickle FMJ ammo. I had practiced with the gun for a year while attending the Language and intelligence training, and I remember it was surprisingly accurate and kicked pretty sharply. It never failed ever as I remember. I was put up in the Continental Hotel in Saigon and, for a couple of weeks, banged around the wide open pre-Tet 68 town (race Track, floating restaurants, Zoo, and shows. When Tet 68 hit I was still awaiting Orders from MACHV but they issued me a "MachVpass" which is now called the "Get out of jail free" card.
However TET 68 Thru everything into crazy disarray I stayed in the Hotel with no pay issued and the Aussie troops fed me for three weeks. I was issued no weapon and only had a couple changes of civie clothes and a couple of unmarked fatigues which was the "plain Clothes" of the combat zone.. About fiveor six weeks after I arrived in Saigon I was given orders to go to the 101st in Hue, which was still being fought over, and me still armed with my trusty PPK , two mags and 50 rounds !! I was finally issued a 1911 Remington Rand with three magazines and 100 round
at Headquarters Company 101st . I was sent here and there as the Linguist intelligence geek , mostly by small Helicopter (Bell 500) , and traded a Leaving for home Helicopter pilot the PPK for his cherry M3a1 Grease Gun , a shoulder carrier with six mags and all his "extra" 1911 mags . This served me well for what I was doing . All .45acp and I practiced in grave yards when banging around in the 3/4 ton jeep I had access to. I kept that gun even after I was sent to a Company and given an M16 that I was completely unfamiliar with
When I was close to returning home I traded the M3 set up to another Pilot for his Rolex Submariner h bought in Hong Kong on R&R . He said it cost "a couple hundred and he was going to get a fancier one anyhow. I still have that Rolex , its been factory rebuilt a couple times. Its worth quite a bit
. I don't have a PPK anymore; I do have a much superior PPS, and so do my kids.
that’s an Amazing Story full of adventure and drama!I took a 1966 West German Walther PPK to South Vietnam in 1968 because I could as a 97B Sargent with plain clothes authorization. I spoke Vietnamese pretty fluently after 84 weeks of training and was all James Bond up at the time. I arrived over there with my PPK in a very light Hardy Shoulder Holster I bought in California along with the gun . I brought the two mags thegun came with and a box of 50 Geco Cupro Nickle FMJ ammo. I had practiced with the gun for a year while attending the Language and intelligence training, and I remember it was surprisingly accurate and kicked pretty sharply. It never failed ever as I remember. I was put up in the Continental Hotel in Saigon and, for a couple of weeks, banged around the wide open pre-Tet 68 town (race Track, floating restaurants, Zoo, and shows. When Tet 68 hit I was still awaiting Orders from MACHV but they issued me a "MachVpass" which is now called the "Get out of jail free" card.
However TET 68 Thru everything into crazy disarray I stayed in the Hotel with no pay issued and the Aussie troops fed me for three weeks. I was issued no weapon and only had a couple changes of civie clothes and a couple of unmarked fatigues which was the "plain Clothes" of the combat zone.. About fiveor six weeks after I arrived in Saigon I was given orders to go to the 101st in Hue, which was still being fought over, and me still armed with my trusty PPK , two mags and 50 rounds !! I was finally issued a 1911 Remington Rand with three magazines and 100 round
at Headquarters Company 101st . I was sent here and there as the Linguist intelligence geek , mostly by small Helicopter (Bell 500) , and traded a Leaving for home Helicopter pilot the PPK for his cherry M3a1 Grease Gun , a shoulder carrier with six mags and all his "extra" 1911 mags . This served me well for what I was doing . All .45acp and I practiced in grave yards when banging around in the 3/4 ton jeep I had access to. I kept that gun even after I was sent to a Company and given an M16 that I was completely unfamiliar with
When I was close to returning home I traded the M3 set up to another Pilot for his Rolex Submariner h bought in Hong Kong on R&R . He said it cost "a couple hundred and he was going to get a fancier one anyhow. I still have that Rolex , its been factory rebuilt a couple times. Its worth quite a bit
. I don't have a PPK anymore; I do have a much superior PPS, and so do my kids.
Not an uncommon complaint, though it very much depends on hand size and how high you hold.Snappy recoil, and the slide always wanted to take blood samples from the web between my thumb and trigger finger.