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I'll soon be selling a few of my hand guns. Top shelf and I'll be fair on the prices
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<blockquote data-quote="druryj" data-source="post: 3488754" data-attributes="member: 10465"><p>I collect post-war Walther PPKs and PPK/S pistols. I currently have 9 of them; in .22lr, 32ACP, and 380 ACP. My favorites are my PPK-L (Dural; or Aluminum) framed PPKs in both .22lr and 32 ACP. Quite rare little pistols and quite expensive if you can find one in good condition. Mine both look like new. They are incredibly accurate little pistols and a joy to shoot. I have one Interarms stainless PPK/S in .32CP; the rest of my collection were made in West Germany or France (Manurhins). I have a West German PPK/S in .380 that looks like it just came off the line, even though it is dated as a 1968 model. I have a beautiful Manurhin PPK/s, also in .380, that is a joy to handle, and has the sweetest SA trigger ever on a DA/SA pistol. These guns were all put together by people who knew how to hand finish a pistol; back before the day of CNC and mass machining. To me, the whole PP seriers was an amazing inroad on the develpoment of handguns, first introduced in 1929 with the Walther PP and then in 1931 with the PPK. The PPK/S came about as a result of the 1968 Gun Control Act, which halted the import of many small pistols, the PPK included. My interest is with those produced post-WWII; either by the French company Manurhin, proofed in St. Ettiene, France, or by Walther, proofed in Ulm, Germany. Actually, from right after the war up until 1986, all the parts for these pistols were really made by Manurhin; some were proofed in St. Etienne, France, and some were shipped as parts to Ulm, in what that was then West Germany, to be hardened and proofed in Ulm. My collection is conservativelly valued at about $15,000. What am I going to do? Gift them them to my grandson, in the hopes he will appreciate them as much as I have and do.</p><p></p><p>I have zero interest in the "Walther" pistols briefly made by S&W in Houlton, ME or in Springfield, MA and even less in the new models of the gun from Ft. Smith, AR. THe changes made to the pistol are horribly ugly and denigrate the classic lines of a classic gun to a great degree. That horrendous beavertail on the new models sets a lot of us Walther guys off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="druryj, post: 3488754, member: 10465"] I collect post-war Walther PPKs and PPK/S pistols. I currently have 9 of them; in .22lr, 32ACP, and 380 ACP. My favorites are my PPK-L (Dural; or Aluminum) framed PPKs in both .22lr and 32 ACP. Quite rare little pistols and quite expensive if you can find one in good condition. Mine both look like new. They are incredibly accurate little pistols and a joy to shoot. I have one Interarms stainless PPK/S in .32CP; the rest of my collection were made in West Germany or France (Manurhins). I have a West German PPK/S in .380 that looks like it just came off the line, even though it is dated as a 1968 model. I have a beautiful Manurhin PPK/s, also in .380, that is a joy to handle, and has the sweetest SA trigger ever on a DA/SA pistol. These guns were all put together by people who knew how to hand finish a pistol; back before the day of CNC and mass machining. To me, the whole PP seriers was an amazing inroad on the develpoment of handguns, first introduced in 1929 with the Walther PP and then in 1931 with the PPK. The PPK/S came about as a result of the 1968 Gun Control Act, which halted the import of many small pistols, the PPK included. My interest is with those produced post-WWII; either by the French company Manurhin, proofed in St. Ettiene, France, or by Walther, proofed in Ulm, Germany. Actually, from right after the war up until 1986, all the parts for these pistols were really made by Manurhin; some were proofed in St. Etienne, France, and some were shipped as parts to Ulm, in what that was then West Germany, to be hardened and proofed in Ulm. My collection is conservativelly valued at about $15,000. What am I going to do? Gift them them to my grandson, in the hopes he will appreciate them as much as I have and do. I have zero interest in the "Walther" pistols briefly made by S&W in Houlton, ME or in Springfield, MA and even less in the new models of the gun from Ft. Smith, AR. THe changes made to the pistol are horribly ugly and denigrate the classic lines of a classic gun to a great degree. That horrendous beavertail on the new models sets a lot of us Walther guys off. [/QUOTE]
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