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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Update! From The Bench...

From Russia, Germany, uh, Alexandria VA with love? 

So I go to the range today to make sure the Walther works. Guess what? It does! It does take some getting used to. According to ZZ Top, every girl's crazy about a sharp dressed man. Does the Walther help?

















Oh, the dinner jacket and tie are not props. I can rock it if needed!
















Lets set the mood shall we?


Ok, that's out of the way. Here is a Walther PPK/s in 9mm Kurz (.380 Automatic for those of us on the other side of the pond). 
















This is a Interarms made in the US pistol. I would rate it at 97% condition. I was asked to clean and assess. Here is where Jedi mind tricks start. 

I cleaned after a minor field stripping. Then tested with dummy rounds. The rounds would extract from the chamber but not eject from the pistol. Here is where I made my mistake. I was not familiar enough with the tool to understand that according to many that is normal. So I do this:




 











Everything gets a bath! I ordered a new extractor and all of the stuff that comes with that. It will not be here before I need to get this back to the owner. I will test tomorrow with original parts. 

Handguns all work on the same basic principal, but the minor details in the execution still bedevil me. I will have the springs and parts in stock now as I think this Pistol will run fine tomorrow. 

Another lesson learned!

10 comments:

  1. I've always wanted one of those. I know there are more modern versions that do a lot of things better, but I just want one.

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  2. And of course since it's German even the simple blow-back pistol has a billion parts made to be assembled by elves with three hands.

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    1. Well of course it does! Stuff fell out with reckless abandon! And the elves do not work cheap!

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  3. I've always been amazed at their accuracy and lethality... heck, I've seen James Bond use one shot to take out a bad guy with a one-handed hold at 120 yards...

    Dann in Ohio

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    1. LOL! I was not so lucky at the range with this one. Perhaps it is defective!

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  4. Yeah, we learn 'new' things every day, especially with old pistols... :-)

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    1. No Sh*t NFO, hell I just looked at one of your pistols and it fired! Honest! Things are learned if you are willing to do so.

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  5. Nice! Both weapon and evening wear.

    I have a 1861 Colt I've not fired yet. It's a replica but it's a working one. Looking forwrd to it.

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    1. B.- Thanks!

      As for the 1861, let me know how it goes!

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