My good friend from back in high school met me at Bass Pro Shops this afternoon. We haven't seen each other in quite awhile (due to the distance between where we live) so we figured a day at the firing range would be fun.
He brought his Interarms PPK/S and I brought my Interarms PPK (and my EAA Witness .38 Super).
There was a gentleman there with his wife and he had two brand new, unfired S&W/Walther's...a blued PPK (beautiful!) and a stainless PPK/S.
We all went out on the range and my buddy and I began shooting. I showed the other guy and his wife how to operate the target holder. A few minutes later he came over and asked me for help with his gun. He had a class three malfunction, a loaded round in the chamber and another round coming up from the magazine, jammed against the back of the first round. That's a pretty tough jam to clear, specially on a gun without a lever to hold and lock the slide back. I showed him what was going on and how to clear it. Other than that, he didn't have any problems I was aware of with his two new Walthers.
My gun ran flawlessly but my friend's would sometimes (about 8 times out of 50 rounds I'd say) not feed a loaded round all the way into the chamber. The slide would be back just about 1/4 inch and the round would be horizontal, into the chamber but not all the way. A little help at the back of the slide would get it in all the way.
He's going to try gently burnishing the chamber area to be sure there are not burrs (we super cleaned the gun when we got home and he's going to try shooting it again soon to see if that helped).
I noticed a little red cut on my shooting hand from the customary Walther bite. I couldn't feel any pain, but there it was. It's still there as I'm typing this but there's no soreness or anything. Doesn't bother me at all.
I tried my friend's gun and it shot almost like mine, but the PPK/S overall grip feel and weight is alot more in my hands. Despite my large hands, the PPK fits me much better.
Here's a pic of our guns at home before we cleaned them:
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He brought his Interarms PPK/S and I brought my Interarms PPK (and my EAA Witness .38 Super).
There was a gentleman there with his wife and he had two brand new, unfired S&W/Walther's...a blued PPK (beautiful!) and a stainless PPK/S.
We all went out on the range and my buddy and I began shooting. I showed the other guy and his wife how to operate the target holder. A few minutes later he came over and asked me for help with his gun. He had a class three malfunction, a loaded round in the chamber and another round coming up from the magazine, jammed against the back of the first round. That's a pretty tough jam to clear, specially on a gun without a lever to hold and lock the slide back. I showed him what was going on and how to clear it. Other than that, he didn't have any problems I was aware of with his two new Walthers.
My gun ran flawlessly but my friend's would sometimes (about 8 times out of 50 rounds I'd say) not feed a loaded round all the way into the chamber. The slide would be back just about 1/4 inch and the round would be horizontal, into the chamber but not all the way. A little help at the back of the slide would get it in all the way.
He's going to try gently burnishing the chamber area to be sure there are not burrs (we super cleaned the gun when we got home and he's going to try shooting it again soon to see if that helped).
I noticed a little red cut on my shooting hand from the customary Walther bite. I couldn't feel any pain, but there it was. It's still there as I'm typing this but there's no soreness or anything. Doesn't bother me at all.
I tried my friend's gun and it shot almost like mine, but the PPK/S overall grip feel and weight is alot more in my hands. Despite my large hands, the PPK fits me much better.
Here's a pic of our guns at home before we cleaned them:
