Hello Walther Brethren,
This is my first post on the PP Forum (have frequented the P99 Forum for a month or so now) , because...
...I brought home a "new-to-me" PPK/S (Interarms 1995) in .380 ACP. from a gun show this weekend! This was always on my "buy someday" list but 1) when I saw it at the show with orginal everything, and aside from a few smudges in the surface of the stainless steel 2) you couldn't tell it had fired the 200 rounds claimed by the owner, "someday" became yesterday!!
This evening I ran 100 rounds of WWB through it, but I should have quit after 75 or so as the last 25 were painful. Before I expand on that (which is the gist of this post), I am delighted to report that aside from a single FTF, it performed flawlessly, and was very accurate. Not sure why I had to assist that one round into the chamber, but I tried to make it happen again through very rapid fire, deliberately limp wristing, etc. and I couldn't do it. If the former owner wasn't fibbing and these were truly only the 200th to 300th rounds fired through it, maybe it's still breaking-in. But on to my question...
...I had read that some shooters suffer either cuts from the slide and/or something called "hammer bite" which I assumed was the striking of the hammer on the bare skin on the shootng hand. During the first 75 rounds I fired I was delighted that neither of these plagued me. HOWEVER, for the last 25 rounds or so, I noticed a very severe pain in the muscle/bone in the web of my hand between my thumb and index finger. Five hours later as I write these words, it's still very painful. When I place the PPK in my hand here at home, it becomes obvious that the point source of the pain is the beavertail NOT the hammer. Apparently, the recoil is driving the beavertail and upper part of the backstrap into the web of my hand. Is this actually what is referred to as "hammer bite," or is this another idiosyncracy of this marvelous little pistol? In any case, is there a remedy to what is ailing me?
THANKS!
This is my first post on the PP Forum (have frequented the P99 Forum for a month or so now) , because...
...I brought home a "new-to-me" PPK/S (Interarms 1995) in .380 ACP. from a gun show this weekend! This was always on my "buy someday" list but 1) when I saw it at the show with orginal everything, and aside from a few smudges in the surface of the stainless steel 2) you couldn't tell it had fired the 200 rounds claimed by the owner, "someday" became yesterday!!
This evening I ran 100 rounds of WWB through it, but I should have quit after 75 or so as the last 25 were painful. Before I expand on that (which is the gist of this post), I am delighted to report that aside from a single FTF, it performed flawlessly, and was very accurate. Not sure why I had to assist that one round into the chamber, but I tried to make it happen again through very rapid fire, deliberately limp wristing, etc. and I couldn't do it. If the former owner wasn't fibbing and these were truly only the 200th to 300th rounds fired through it, maybe it's still breaking-in. But on to my question...
...I had read that some shooters suffer either cuts from the slide and/or something called "hammer bite" which I assumed was the striking of the hammer on the bare skin on the shootng hand. During the first 75 rounds I fired I was delighted that neither of these plagued me. HOWEVER, for the last 25 rounds or so, I noticed a very severe pain in the muscle/bone in the web of my hand between my thumb and index finger. Five hours later as I write these words, it's still very painful. When I place the PPK in my hand here at home, it becomes obvious that the point source of the pain is the beavertail NOT the hammer. Apparently, the recoil is driving the beavertail and upper part of the backstrap into the web of my hand. Is this actually what is referred to as "hammer bite," or is this another idiosyncracy of this marvelous little pistol? In any case, is there a remedy to what is ailing me?
THANKS!
