Hi all. I'm new to this forum. I've got an Interarms Walther PPK/s 380 in Stainless Steel I purchased back in the late 1980's. I haven't carried or shot it a lot because it always seemed to have reliability problems with feeding ammo. I never spent a lot of time or money trying to find which brand of ammo it preferred as I have other handguns for carry and protection. I have mainly tried Blazer, FMC and WWB hardball amo through it in the past.
My wife has been on me lately to get rid of it if it isn't reliable, but I hate to ever turn lose of a gun once it's mine.
I read through the advice in several threads here on this forum. Ordered some Tetris gun grease and Focchi FMJ ammo and went to the range yesterday for another try. I put 49 rounds through the gun with no problems whatsoever. The 50th and last round I was planning to fire had a failure to feed.
Should I just chalk this up to the gun beginning to run out of lubrication after 49 rounds fired and assume that for a carry often, shoot seldom pocket handgun it is reliable for the first several mags I maight need to put through it? Or should I repeat the test with some S&B FMJ ammo I purchased? Or does the PPK/S need a trip to the gun smith for a throat and polish job on the feed ramp? Thanks in advance!
My wife has been on me lately to get rid of it if it isn't reliable, but I hate to ever turn lose of a gun once it's mine.
I read through the advice in several threads here on this forum. Ordered some Tetris gun grease and Focchi FMJ ammo and went to the range yesterday for another try. I put 49 rounds through the gun with no problems whatsoever. The 50th and last round I was planning to fire had a failure to feed.
Should I just chalk this up to the gun beginning to run out of lubrication after 49 rounds fired and assume that for a carry often, shoot seldom pocket handgun it is reliable for the first several mags I maight need to put through it? Or should I repeat the test with some S&B FMJ ammo I purchased? Or does the PPK/S need a trip to the gun smith for a throat and polish job on the feed ramp? Thanks in advance!