hhb
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My local dealer called last week to tell me he had a NIB Manuhrine .32acp PP. I jumped on it like a duck on a june bug. I have a French police model that's about the most reliable and accurate pistol I own.
I understand, I bought a S&W Walther PPK stainless, it's beautiful, that's what appealed to me, all stainless, beautiful craftmanship, but it had not been deburred.... the edges were sharp as razors, and I got a FTF every mag..... So I sat down and took the thing apart, I mean apart..... every single thing down to the tiniest spring.... I took jewelers files and fine sandpaper to every edge, cleaned the hell out of it.... then put it back together, (I found some illustratrations on how to do this online... )I absolutely HATED my S&W PPK/s. It was probably the worst POS I have ever bought.
- the recoil even for a blowback design was excessively painful. I am not sure if it is poor ergonomics or what. But I could barely stand to fire the darn thing and I am used to firing subcompact .45s and .380 mouse guns.
- lots of sharp edges all over the pistol. For the price I paid, you would think they could have at least dealt with that.
- worst DA trigger I have ever seen. The DA was so heavy that I had a hard time actually getting it to even fire. God forbid I have to use it to defend myself with. It was the kind of trigger that I actually do have nightmares about, the kind where it feels like you are trying to a 2 ton truck.
-ammo finicky, it was a used gun and I still had a FTF every mag.
I am sure I am going to get dogpiled for this, but I just thought it was a horribly overpriced for what I was actually getting. I felt as though I was paying $400 more then it was worth merely for it's namesake. So no thank you, I will stick with my CZ-82 which is leagues ahead of the S&W.