[brokenknife]

I have a Walther PP that I am trying to find the production date on. How can you tell the production date? Do they use letter codes like HK? Thanks.

 

[uncut]

Post war Walthers have last 2 of year.. or 2 lettercode like H&K
The switch from the last 2 of the year to 2 letters came in 1977

Now if you have a early PP you be best of to go to the P38forum.com Dieter Marschall in Germany has a data base, with which he can date them to about the month of production.........

 

[chevis]

So mine is a ID then it is a 94,,is that correct?

 

[uncut]

ID would be 1983

A B C D E F G H I K
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

The "J" is left out as it is looks almost identical to the "I" when used as a capital letter in German writing

 

[chevis]

Ok thanks.You'll probably be hearing from me again as I'm just starting to get into Walthers.I have quite a few expensive Colts and Smiths.so whenever I get into a type of gun I usually go crazy and buy sometimes beyond my means.I'll probably be dumping quite a few guns during the Wanamacher show in Tulsa at the end of March.Unfortunatly I'll probably have to let the first $5,000 go towards tax purposes,but I usually sell two to three times that much,so I'll probably be able to bring home,or trade for a couple Walthers.