Walther PPQ Navy. Pic heavy. Holster update post#20.

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I bought it from the Calgary Shooting Centre for $899 +tax and shipping. It just showed up this morning so hopefully I'll get a chance to take it out this weekend. It came with two mags, mag loader, three grip backstraps (small, medium, large) manual, and test target.

I compete in a lot of pistol and 3 gun matches and require a minimum of five mags. They told me that they had three spare mags at $69 each, so like a fool I bought them without question only later to find out, when the showed up at my door, that they are P99 mags. The mags are the exact same except the finish on the P99 mags are glossy and the PPQ mags are a flat black. Also the base plate has PPQ moulded into plastic and the other has P99. Both made in Italy. They look like Mec Gear mags to me. Another CGN member has already confirmed that the P99 mags work flawlessly in the PPQ. (Freedom Ventures had P99 mags on for $39 and Nothern Republic Magazine has PPQ mags for $64.99.)

First impressions...awesome! It feels so natural in hand. Grip texture, controls, trigger pull are excellent. Using the middle finger on my trigger hand feels very natural for mag changes. The manual is really well done with color pictures and easy to follow instructions for full disassembly. I like the three dot sights. They are not tritium night sights but "glow in the dark" material similar to the stuff on a wrist watch.

I took pics of the Walther next to me Sig P226R for a bit of a size comparison. (The Sig has the Meprolight night sights, big and ugly, but fully adjustable.) There is a crappy video at the end of the trigger pull and reset.

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This a good comparison of the PPQ's rear sight picture. The way they triangulated the rear of the gun seems to help with a nice easy to acquire sight picture.

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silverfoxdj said:
Nice.. good buy.. congrats
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X 2 from me. Thanks for the effort. I don't know why more rear sights aren't cut like that. "Dog earring" the RS is common from competitive shooting as it's faster and doesn't block as much of the shooter's view. Too bad about that threaded barrel but we all know why. Good tips on the mags too.
 
There is one minor thing that is bugging me a little with this pistol...

When I rack the slide with the rear serrations, my fingers automatically line up on the extractor bar and it feels a little slippery. I have to concentrate on grabbing the serrations below the extractor. With practice it'll be fine, but I wish they continued the serrations on the extractor to line up with serrations on the slide. The front of the slide has the same effect with the cut out for their logo. Your fingers find the spot with the missing serrations and it feels like your fingers will slip bit when you go to rack it. I still love this pistol, just an observation.

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I notice the slippery extractor thing on Ruger SR9's but they have less aggressive serrations and the recoil spring is stiffer.
I haven't noticed it on the PPQ. I did find that my thumbs would ride the slide release bar which made the gun not lock back on the last round sometimes.
 
I shot mine for the first time today and it was a lot of fun. That's my review because I'm a total newbie. I can tell you that only a handful or so of the 50 rounds I shot were outside the 5-inch black circle on my target at 10 yards. Not so accurate with my Glock 22 today. That's not a ciritcism of that gun - I love it. Just a newbie's experience shooting a PPQ for the first time and going "damn, I made the hole more or less where I wanted it to be. I wonder if I can do that again? damn...."
 
I was able to get out to the range to shoot the PPQ today and... it's awesome. I love it. It's crazy accurate, love the trigger. All the great things people have been reporting about this pistol are true. When racking the slide, I didn't feel like my fingers were slipping which was an initial concern. The inserts in the sights charged quickly from the sun and they glowed a little even in the middle of the day. Not as bright as fiber optic iron sights, but noticeable. Target acquisition is very fast.

One of the most interesting things about the trigger is how it feels like a two stage. It has a warning in the manual not to shoot it in two stages, just one smooth trigger pull. But I just can't help it. You pull the trigger and you can feel where it enters the second stage and where it's about to break, then bang, breaks so nice and clean. Now, I have to go back on that a little, for the first few rounds you think you know when it's going to break, but a few times it caught me off guard and fired when I though I still had a little more to pull. Obviously why Walther makes the statement not to stage the trigger. The rounds still landed on target in the ten ring. Stupid accurate even when you're not paying attention. By the end of the first day you get the feel for it and the smile just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

I thought it would take longer to get used to the Euro style mag release, but it felt great right away. My middle finger of my trigger hand finds the release with no effort at all.

The only thing that was a pain in the butt is the thread protector cap. It comes loose after a few rounds. I don't want to loctite it because you have to take the cap off to remove the barrel from the slide for cleaning. I don't want to keep tightening it up a quarter turn after every few shots because we all know it's not safe to have your hand near the muzzle of any firearm. I'll probably just take it off before shooting and put it back on when I'm all done. I'd be mad if I lost it.

Is the PPQ going to replace my P226R for competition? Mmmmm....after a few hundred more rounds of practice, I'm pretty sure it will.

I get home and walk in the door, my wife asks: "How's your new gun?" before I get a word out, "Never mind. Your grinning like a 12 year old school girl that just got her first kiss. Go wash up for dinner." Hahaha. Yup.
 
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Pistolwhiptricks said:
Nice! Does your Sig have the short reset trigger kit installed? If so, which one do you feel has the shorter reset?
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I do have the SRT in my Sig. The reset is very close, almost identical. The big difference is when you pull the trigger, on the Sig you feel the hammer drop and hit the firing pin. You can hear a little "twang" if you dry fire it. With the PPQ, it's just a clean click. You don't really feel anything more. I guess it feels smoother because it's not dropping a hammer with the striker fire design.
 
salon_1928 said:
I shot mine for the first time today and it was a lot of fun. That's my review because I'm a total newbie. I can tell you that only a handful or so of the 50 rounds I shot were outside the 5-inch black circle on my target at 10 yards. Not so accurate with my Glock 22 today. That's not a ciritcism of that gun - I love it. Just a newbie's experience shooting a PPQ for the first time and going "damn, I made the hole more or less where I wanted it to be. I wonder if I can do that again? damn...."
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That's the fun of it.. :)
 
I ordered a kydex holster from CTCSupplies.ca. These holsters are made by Tim Smith, owner of Solely Canadian. Tim was awesome to work with. He responded to my emails within an hour every time I had a question. He sent me pictures as soon as he finished making the holster. I highly recommend sending him an email at info.solelycanadian@gamil.com or PM him user name: rollie100 if you have any question.

As for the holster? I love it! Worth every penny. I've been shooting competitively for fifteen years and I carried a gun for work for eleven and a half years. I've tried lots and lots of holsters. For competition, these Kydex Custom formed holsters are by far my favourite. I've never had a pistol draw so cleanly/easily from a holster and still have the level of retention that it does.

Here's a few pics to show how the Multicam looks with my gear. I will be wearing this holster on my belt. (Just in case you're wondering, I hate drop leg holsters!) Ask Tim what color you're looking for and if he doesn't have it in stock, I'm sure he'll be able to get it. I wear my vest/plate carrier for 3 gun matches. I was concerned about how easy it would be to draw the pistol, when it sits tight to the body, with the vest right above it. Turns out it's not a problem. I have no pouches on my right side near the pistol and there is no interference. It's going to be a fun year of shooting.

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