PPK Q

[Ike Arumba]

Here it is. Maybe I should have wiped my fingerprints off, but they don't show up much in these reductions. -- Dave
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[wilshire1412]

Nice looking piece! Make that one a safe queen and get something else to shoot with, I have a few different Walther PP, PPk, PPk/S and the only one I ever shoot any is the .22lr PPk/s. The .380 hurts my hand and the .32 just does not do anything the .22 does not do cheaper. If you want a SD handgun then 9mm P or .38 Special is a good place to start from, only get anything bigger if you find that you can still shoot anything bigger well.

[thejackamo]

Just thought I'd echo what others are saying - this is a beautiful historic piece, and a WWII relic to boot. I wouldn't even risk shooting it if I ever had one. Definitely something to just clean and oil up really nice, put it back in the safe, and buy something else for SD/HD/plinking.

[zinfull]

Very nice. I would like to have that in my collection. Keep it oiled and safe. Pick up a different gun for HD, one you will not cry over if the police take it away.

Jerry

[Ike Arumba]

Thank you all for your thoughtful words. Can acids in fingerprint oil attack the metal? Do I need to make sure the fingerprints are off it?

I talked to my mother today and got a little clarification on Uncle Herbert. He served in Italy, where he captured the firearm. Then in May 1945, his unit was on its way being transferred to northern Germany. They took a roundabout route through France to avoid Switzerland, and paused in Paris for the weekend. On Sunday, he met up with his brother (my father), who was in a typing pool after recovering from a shot to the head in combat in France (on Nov. 30, 1944). The next day was V-E day, so they had the day off to go to the Paris opera together. Then Herbert continued on to his posting in Germany. So his fighting was all in Italy.

When I told Mom what you said about the gun being a collector's item, she said, "Why don't you sell it and put the money into your house remodel?" My reply was "Nooo Wayyy." I intend for one of my two sons to inherit it. One already has the Japanese carbine my father in law captured, so I guess the other one will get the PPK.

A question on posting images. Last night, I followed the directions as I understood them, to upload those images and include them in the post. It showed correctly. Today at work, I went to the bulletin board to show the images to a coworker, and found that just the filenames were showing. I had to log in to click through the file names to get to the images, shown individually out of context. That's the way it looked when I came back just now to check for replies, but after logging back in, the images showed up within the posting itself. I don't understand the inconsistency. Is there some setting that I need to change to get them to reliably show without requiring logging in?