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Walther P99

quickslvr982quickslvr982 Member Posts: 158 ✭✭✭
edited April 2002 in Ask the Experts
I just went shooting pistols for the first time with a friend the other day. He had a Romanian knockoff of a Walther ppk that I fell in love with and was shooting dead on. I went looking for one on this web site and came across the Walther p99. How does this gun compare? Is it good for self defence and general shooting?
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  • quickslvr982quickslvr982 Member Posts: 158 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I got one of the first Walther P99s that came to the US. Of course, it has that horrible hump in the trigger guard. I noticed in Guns and Ammo that the new ones don't have the hump. Here's my question: Are there enough changes in the new P99s to warrant me selling the one I have and buying a new opne, or should I take the one I have to a gun shop and have the hump surgically removed?

    Hizzoner

    "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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  • quickslvr982quickslvr982 Member Posts: 158 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    yeah welI would like to get a walther p99 qa or a as i dont really know witch one i should get i am just going to have it for shoot home protection and just to have it jsut to go aorund and shoot stuff jsut want to know what yall think about the p99
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  • quickslvr982quickslvr982 Member Posts: 158 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would like to get a walther p99 qa or a as i dont really know witch one i should get i am just going to have it for shoot it home protection and just to have it
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  • quickslvr982quickslvr982 Member Posts: 158 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ok im interested in this pistol and wonder if anyone has any info on this particualr pistol. im debating between this and the berreta 92-f. on both pistols what is the accuracy like after u have become fairly accustomed to shooting them. Also for any dealers out there on the Walther p22 any idea when its going to be legal in california. thanks a lot -quicklslvr982
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  • quickslvr982quickslvr982 Member Posts: 158 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am looking at getting a walther p99. I was wondering if there is any difference in the accuracy between the 9mm or the 40 s&w? i would appreciate any help on this matter.
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  • quickslvr982quickslvr982 Member Posts: 158 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I just read the thread on the P22's. Is there anything wrong with the P99's?

    Preciate it.
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  • quickslvr982quickslvr982 Member Posts: 158 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Anybody had any experence? I think I`m falling in love with one in 9mm, but before I part with that kind of money, I`d like to here good things about it from someone who knows!

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  • punchiepunchie Member Posts: 2,792 ✭
    edited November -1
    I bought one when they first came out because of all the glowing reports on it. The reports were right, superior ergonomics, reliability and accuracy but they did not say enough about the unique trigger system. The standard P99 takes awhile to get used to the rather unusual SA trigger. It re-sets to the forward DA position and upon an easy break travels to the regular SA position with very little pressure. I am told this was a safety feature designed in to help eliminate a stress-fire situation for the LEOs.

    Don't have a 92 to compare it with but I do have a 96 DAO and both the 96 and the P99 have proven to be utterly reliable, edge in accuracy to the P99, ergonomics = P99, size and weight to P99, action = anything but a P99.

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  • colt100colt100 Member Posts: 90 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have had a 92 FS for several years now. As far as accuracy goes, I can constantly hit 12 gage shotgun shells (emptys) at 15 yards. I am not that great of a shot either. I have never had my hands on a walter 99 yet so can't say how they shoot.
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