![]() This pistol has the brownish-reddish grips. Internally, it is every bit as good as earlier examples. Starting in 1942, exterior machining suffered in favor of higher volume production. Machining marks are evident on the slide in this image. This example is an AC43 built at the Zella-Mehlis plant in June or July of 1943. Postwar P.38's were constructed with an alloy frame and a P-1 was issued to the military and West German Police. This pistol was first available in 1938, and a civilian version called the HP was the commercial model. Walther took these designs and futher refined his new pistol to be called the P.38. Patents were awarded for protecting these inovative designs. The AP was a refined version with a new type of locking system, extractor, breech, and firing pin. This design would not stand up to the punishment of a 9mm round. The MP was in development just after WWI and was a blowback design like the PP series. The predecessors of the P.38 were the Models MP and AP. It too, has been used in various movies and television shows. The Walther P.38 is probably as well known as the Walther PPK. After the war, the plant was moved out of the Soviet sector of divided Germany, to the French sector in Ulm, West Germany, where some models are still manufactured today. Though the decocker can be found on the PP Super.Īlmost all Walther models were produced at the Zella-Mehlis plant before and during the war. These never made it into regular production. There were various experimental models of the PP, such as a ten-round model, and one with a decocker mounted on the frame. The PP and PPK chambered in caliber 6.35mm is extremely rare and not many examples exist today. 380 ACP as it's known in the United States, gaining popularity toward the latter part of WWII. The 7.65mm chambering was the most popular, with the 9mm kurz, or. This design is used in smaller, lower power chamberings, typically 9mm Kurz or less. When a round is fired the recoil ejects the spent casing and the slide strips another round from the magazine into the chamber ready to fire again. #Carl walther p1 9mm series#The PP series is a blowback, or unlocked-breach design, meaning that the barrel is fitted and pinned to the receiver and does not move. This example has the 90 degree safety and the large ring hammer, but does not have the loaded chamber indicator common to later pistols. Probably late 1929 or sometime in the first quarter of 1930. #Carl walther p1 9mm serial#The PP pictured in the above link was, according to the serial number, one of the first 20,000 pistols produced. After the first shot, the retracting slide would cock the hammer for follow up shots if nessesary. The trigger pull on the first shot would be a longer heavier pull than subsquent shots. ![]() The pistol could safely be carried with a round in the chamber, ready to fire. The Walther PP, first produced in 1929, was the first successful double action automatic pistol manufactured. The model 'PP', Polizei Pistole, or Police Pistol, is a direct descendant of the Model 8 produced in 1920. There is a link to a page farther down that will take you to some rare and seldom seen Walthers, including two from the numbered series. Little did he know the impact his designs would have on firearms to this day.Ĭarl Walther started his business with the Walther Models 1 through 9, however this page deals with models PP through the present P99. Only three men I know carry that gun, and I've killed two of them.' Former KGB agent turned arms dealer upon hearing British agent James Bond, 007, cocking the hammer on his issued Walther PPK.Ĭarl Walther in 1886 started his humble beginings as an arms manufacturer. The reason I am thinking about buying it is because it was made in 1960, the year I was born. Tell Me About The Manurhin PPK/S I have an opportunity to buy one of these for $300 and it comes with the box and papers. The only exceptions were the markings on the grips and the slide. These pistols were identical in every way, to include the high standard of finish, to the pre-war Walthers. In the early 1950's, the Manurhin factory began to manufacture Walther PP's and PPK's. ![]()
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