I'm shooting it...often...may even carry it!!!
Thanks, Malysh. This may disappoint some, but I fully intend on shooting the PPK...quite a bit. Honestly, my thought was not to find a pistol like this to keep in the safe, I simply wanted a virtually brand new, German-built PPK that I could break-in and make my own. To do that, though, it basically needed to have an older manufacture date...in this case 40 years old!!! I wanted the feel of being able to buy this gun new, like I would have had back then. HMMM...that's kinda what happened...like I did a little time-traveling...

Seriously, I fully intend on taking great care of the pistol, but let's remember...these things were made to be shot. For 40 years this thing has been denied its destiny!!! I used to own an exotic car, and the motto in that particular circle was "they were made to be driven." In fact, at some of the concourse type events, if a show car was not driven on the track (and I mean in an actual race) during the event, points would be deducted during judging! Another example are show dogs...did you know that at the highest levels of those competitions, a hunting dog with visible scars (from hunting) will have zero points deducted from its judging?? It's a sign that the dog is used for its intended purpose...an honorable battle scar if you will. Finally, let's get real. A 1968 PPK is not really an investment. Sure it's more rare than some guns...and it's sexy as a gun can be...but there are, relatively speaking, vast quantities of them. How much could it possibly go up in value?? Let's say this $1000+ PPK, today, is worth an inflation adjusted $5000 by the time I'm an old man (will not happen)...Whoopdee doo dah day!!! That's not going to get you anywhere. And I'll be scratching my gray head thinking...you know, I should have shot this thing...I bet that would've been fun. No regrets, my friends. I'll let the next generations worry about why great grandpa should or shouldn't have shot his '68 PPK.... See what I mean...it's kind of ludicrous not to.