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Years ago, I sold a St. Etienne marked Walther PPK/S to a friend to finance another purchase. This was something like twenty years before there was shall issue concealed carry in Ohio.
Now I'd like to have a second pocket carry gun, in addition to my S&W Model 36. My friend won't sell the gun back, even though he's too paranoid to get a CHL, doesn't shoot it, and probably hasn't even seen it in more than a year. Since I'm leaning towards a Walther, that means I'll have to buy new.
I don't like stainless steel. I've only got one other stainless handgun, a S&W 3" Model 65, which I only have because I literally haven't seen a 3" Model 13 in 10+ years here, in a store or at a show. Unfortunately, the new PPKs and PPK/Ses appear to all be stainless. Since they appear to now make PPKs as well as PPK/Ses, I might as well get the slightly more concealable gun.
Does anyone have anything to say, good or bad, about the new stainless PPKs? I've heard both good and bad regarding reliability. If I get one, I'll be carrying .380 JHPs of a brand and type as yet unspecified. I used Winchester Silvertips in the old gun and it seemed to work well with them.
I'm not in a rush, and would like to get some solid information before I drop $500+ on a gun made of a material I'm not that thrilled with.
Now I'd like to have a second pocket carry gun, in addition to my S&W Model 36. My friend won't sell the gun back, even though he's too paranoid to get a CHL, doesn't shoot it, and probably hasn't even seen it in more than a year. Since I'm leaning towards a Walther, that means I'll have to buy new.
I don't like stainless steel. I've only got one other stainless handgun, a S&W 3" Model 65, which I only have because I literally haven't seen a 3" Model 13 in 10+ years here, in a store or at a show. Unfortunately, the new PPKs and PPK/Ses appear to all be stainless. Since they appear to now make PPKs as well as PPK/Ses, I might as well get the slightly more concealable gun.
Does anyone have anything to say, good or bad, about the new stainless PPKs? I've heard both good and bad regarding reliability. If I get one, I'll be carrying .380 JHPs of a brand and type as yet unspecified. I used Winchester Silvertips in the old gun and it seemed to work well with them.
I'm not in a rush, and would like to get some solid information before I drop $500+ on a gun made of a material I'm not that thrilled with.
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