Any reason for wanting this particular gun or type of gun?
If you want it as a museum piece, that’s fine.
If you want it for personal defense or concealed carry, there are better choices out there. There are two that come to mind, the Smith & Wesson Shield EZ and Glock 42
I hated mine. Pretty sure it was an interarms model.
Stovepiped at least once if not 2-3 times every outing.
Add to this the " walther burn" with the slide hitting the web between your thumb and first finger occasionally made it a totally unpleasant weapon.
In college I took a girl I really liked out shooting. She got a PPK…she got slide bite…
She was a sport about it, but it was a bummer…
i had a bersa thunder 380acp, an argentine-made, walther ppk, clone. i really wanted to like it. it reliably ate fmj ball ammo. sadly, slide bite on the web of one’s shooting hand (mine was bloodied every time after 20 rounds) and weak metal used for safety/decock lever (mine sheared off at the shooting range) are things. i cannot recommend the thunder though others like it.
indeed, not all of the latin american clones are bad. my bedside piece is an older rossi, 3”, 5-shot, 38sp, j-frame clone, revolver. fitted with pachmayr grips and loaded with wadcutter ammo. still small and light enough to be a holstered ccw if i wish to do so. the rossi is a gem, beats the bersa hands-down.I bought one also at a gun show.....complete piece of crap....240 buck paper weght......I traded it for an old Rossi 38 4 inch.....plus 50 bucks.....50 bucks well spent.....the rossi has fired everything ive run through it.
I have one. It's spent more time at two gunsmiths for warranty repairs than on the range. It's a jam machine. FTE . I'm going to shoot up the remaining. 380 I have and sell it to a local storei had a bersa thunder 380acp, an argentine-made, walther ppk, clone. i really wanted to like it. it reliably ate fmj ball ammo. sadly, slide bite on the web of one’s shooting hand (mine was bloodied every time after 20 rounds) and weak metal used for safety/decock lever (mine sheared off at the shooting range) are things. i cannot recommend the thunder though others like it.
Actually a semi is more likely to go bang on the first shot than a revolver. The semi is cocked and ready to the wheel gun is more complicated.I have over 20 pistols/revolvers so its just because I dont own it......I carry revolvers 99.9 percent of the time because im an old fart.....and i know its going to go bang when i pull the trigger.....
Actually a semi is more likely to go bang on the first shot than a revolver. The semi is cocked and ready to the wheel gun is more complicated.
That is why you absolutely positively must not miss on the first shot.
That's some fuzzy logic there.Actually a semi is more likely to go bang on the first shot than a revolver. The semi is cocked and ready to the wheel gun is more complicated.
That is why you absolutely positively must not miss on the first shot.
There are much better options than the PPK. It's a classic piece but there are objectively better pistols available now. If you want one because you want one, that's fine too, but just by weight and size and ergonomics there are better choices.I have over 20 pistols/revolvers so its just because I dont own it......I carry revolvers 99.9 percent of the time because im an old fart.....and i know its going to go bang when i pull the trigger......Smith 36 and Colt Diamondback are my carry guns plus a few speed loaders and i feel good to go.
In the Glovebox I carry a Taurus G3C.....for 279 its been almost 100 percent trouble free except it does not like subsonic rounds but thats not a problem.....plus if something happens to it i wont be crying. The Diamondback has got to be so high in resale cost I would cry if something happened to it plus ive owned i since 1980 so its carry time is way down vs the 36 ....Colt made such pretty guns I hate to use them much anymore.....