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Gents,
Anyone have recent experience with the Walther PPS? A friend of mine in Germany had an early one with the light grey receiver. It had feeding problems that never were resolved. I have heard the later black pistols are good to go. I have been considering one as a back-up to the projected 75 Thor, anyone have first hand knowledge of recent production PPS pistols?
MVP
Gents,
Anyone have recent experience with the Walther PPS?
anyone have first hand knowledge of recent production PPS pistols?
MVP
As it is now a S&W product,, the S&W forums have a bunch to say, I did a quick search,, here is the list.
http://smith-wessonforum.com/search.php?searchid=264958
Note sure if the link will work for a non-member, but you may as well join. It's a great source for all things s&W..
Good Luck..
:D
I picked one up recently. I can't give a thorough report as of yet. I had some FTE's at first. I was being lax with my form and limp wristing. Tightening things up fixed that problem. I plan to put it through some hard range time soon and will report back.
I will say, definitely look around and don't buy the first one you find. I overpaid. Lesson learned.
MVP, this thread from the PPS forum is a good read.
http://ppstalk.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=799
MVP, I've now got a few hundred rounds through the gun and wanted to give you an update.
The PPS is effortless to carry. I'm a small guy and I can hide the PPS easily in a good holster (Minotaur MTAC). I've had zero problems with the gun after I did the following:
First, using a Dremel with a felt polishing wheel, I gently polished the cartridge feeding ramp on the underside of the slide. I used either Meguiars or Mothers metal polish - can't remember at the moment which brand it was. The polish was blue in color. Any metal polish should work as long as it's not very abrasive. It took about 5 minutes to polish the ramp to a light shine.
Secondly, I applied the same polish to the slide rails in the frame and racked the slide approximately 75-100 times. Once I cleaned off the polish, the slide rails had very light wear - basically resembling my other pistols that have lots of rounds through them.
The gun still locks up very tight on the rails and is much more accurate than I can shoot. The slide is noticeably smoother in movement after the polish application. I was having trouble with FTE's and the slide not going into battery when I initially acquired the PPS. Those problems are gone and the pistol has fed and fired both cheap plinking ammo and my carry ammo flawlessly.