The First: P99 Final Edition

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Angry Hippo

Discussion Starter · 10 d ago

Here it is... the FIRST (posted here

) P99 Final Edition.

Picked this baby up today. Shout out to Tombstone Tactical for prompt shipping and a fair price and Ark Tactical for receiving the gun and getting it to me just an hour after FEDEX dropped it off.

The gun is... well, it's a P99! What is there to say other than: Best. Gun. Ever.

I have a collection of 99 series guns (family reunion below) P99 in 9mm x2, SW99 in 9mm, SW99 in 45, SW99C in 40SW, P99C 9mm x2 - so needless to say I'm a big fan of the platform.

Proud to report that the P99 challenge coin is both thicker AND longer than the SIG Legion coins... we all knew who was really packing

Disappointed that they didn't do a test target for these guns. I know that hasn't been a thing for ahwhile... but come on Walther

Haven't shot it yet... and not sure if I will. Another P99 in a different color isn't going to exactly blow my mind away... still, it's always good to spend time with an old friend.

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Angry Hippo

Discussion Starter · #41 · 3 d ago

Mass1632 said:
You just need a sw99 especially in .45. For me and mine, this gun lets you be lazy and retains its accuracy. Though it has the worst trigger (my mr9 has the best (but has an issue)). Ive seen an unfired listed pretty cheap a couple years back. Im still kicking myself for not doubling up.

I'd agree the SW99 pistols don't seem to have quite as good a trigger pull as P99s. It's still excellent and far and above most of the competition but in a side by side test they just don't seem quite as smooth, particularly in the double action pull.

Honestly it's splitting hairs. I'm super happy with my SW99-45 so I wouldn't consider it a complaint per se, more an observation.

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PPS1980

· #42 · 2 d ago

Congratulations. The P99 is Walthers best.

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OmegaJB

· #43 · 19 h ago

I picked my Final Edition from my FFL yesterday. As others have said it's more of an OD green than the marketing photos, but nothing makes me smile more than a new P99.

I'm on the fence on whether or not I'm going to shoot this or keep it a virgin and be a collector piece. (I'm probably going to shoot it).

Based on my collection, it's clear the P99 is my favorite platform.
It starred with a P99AS, then the P99c (my daily carry) SW99 45, then I picked up a P99QA, it was a a police trade in from the Netherlands. (I have to say the QA trigger was much better than I expected) and closing out with the Final Edition.

If I can find a SW99 in 9mm for a good price.

Have I mentioned that the P99 platform is my favorite?

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artyldr01

· #44 · 18 h ago

My first was a P99cAS, which is one of the few guns I regret letting go.

I now only have one, but it is pretty special. I contacted Earl's years ago on the hunt for a "Defense Kit" gun or full ambidextrous model. I had forgotten about it, honestly. Then, a couple of years ago, they called me out of the blue, asking if I was still interested in a fully ambidextrous, they had just received five; Two with tritium sights, two with phosphorescent, one with standard sights. I was kind of cheap then, so I went with standard sights and upgraded later.

So here is my pretty rare fully ambidextrous P99AS.

I really want a SW99 in 45 ACP, and I want my P99cAS back. :-(

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OmegaJB

· #45 · 18 h ago

artyldr01 said:
My first was a P99cAS, which is one of the few guns I regret letting go.

I now only have one, but it is pretty special. I contacted Earl's years ago on the hunt for a "Defense Kit" gun or full ambidextrous model. I had forgotten about it, honestly. Then, a couple of years ago, they called me out of the blue, asking if I was still interested in a fully ambidextrous, they had just received five; Two with tritium sights, two with phosphorescent, one with standard sights. I was kind of cheap then, so I went with standard sights and upgraded later.

So here is my pretty rare fully ambidextrous P99AS.

I really want a SW99 in 45 ACP, and I want my P99cAS back. :-(

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I wish Walther embraced ambidextrous slide releases on the P99AS's. My European QA has it and is nice.

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Mass1632

· #46 · 17 h ago

OmegaJB said:
I wish Walther embraced ambidextrous slide releases on the P99AS's. My European QA has it and is nice.

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Seems like it may have mostly been a transitional thing. Contracts in europe or else where possibly made them continue to produce them for europe. The p99 had really evolved from there to the p99q, which was marketed in the US as the ppq. With them introducing the ppq to the US, they werent going to then introduce another transitional p99. They just continued to trickle out the same generation as what had been previously released here.
This is all pretty much conjecture.

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balance

· #47 · 17 h ago

Mass1632 said:
Seems like it may have mostly been a transitional thing. Contracts in europe or else where possibly made them continue to produce them for europe. The p99 had really evolved from there to the p99q, which was marketed in the US as the ppq. With them introducing the ppq to the US, they werent going to then introduce another transitional p99. They just continued to trickle out the same generation as what had been previously released here.
This is all pretty much conjecture.

I've never heard a reason why they only imported the single-sided slide release lever model to the US, but it seems like the US was the only market that they continued producing that model for. It seems like every time a member of this forum from another country posted a picture of their P99 (after 2004 when the ambidextrous slide release models were released), it had the ambidextrous levers. Why they would continue to use two different molds for two different P99 frames rather than just going with the ambidextrous model will remain a mystery to me until someone from Walther can explain this to me.

I think it should be noted that I've yet to hear of a single contract received for the AS model of the P99. The P99 was made to compete for German police contracts, and there are parameters that must be met to compete, including one for a long enough length of trigger reset distance, that I believe the P99 would not meet with its short reset. All of the contracts I've heard of the P99 receiving were for either the DAO or QA models. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. This is also the reason why the P99Q is not the same pistol as the PPQ. It uses a different fire control group. The P99Q has a Glock-like partially cocked striker with a double-strike capability. The lesser known P99D is a DAO pistol. The only contract I've heard of the PPQ receiving was for the Taiwan police, where they adopted the PPQ M2, but with the paddle mag release, just to add another question mark out there.

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