I have had a number of PPK and PPK/S pistols over time, and a common problem with a lot of them is that sometimes, the safety will drop down to SAFE, on its own, while you are shooting. This is only mildly annoying at the range, but when you are involved in a high speed car chase and gun battle with a gang of ruthless commie spies, it could be deadly. See, despite the Walther hitting like a brick thrown through a plate glass window, it also was notably one of the first, if not THE first successful DA/SA Pistols. What? You ask incredulously. "Indeed". I would answer. Old Carl and Fritz didn't have a lot to copy back in 1929. They just thought this stuff up. (Actually, the first DA/SA pistol ever manufactured is generally considered to be the Little Tom, a .32 ACP top-loading pistol designed and made in Austria. The Little Tom did not see much success though while the Walthers did). Now, maybe because they were braving a new frontier in firearms design, well, the ignorant chumps put the safety in "wrong". Wrong? You would ask. "Yep. Observe".
And there it is, exactly the opposite of the safety on another old design, the 1911. John Moses had it right; Carl and Fritz? Not so much...see, the dang safety on a PP Series gun is held in place by a tiny spring that puts pressure on a tiny plunger that goes into a tiny divot on the safety drum. Here is the deal:
So see that little spring? The plunger on the left goes in a divot on the safety drum, and the plunger on the right pushes against the extractor. So one spring to control two things. That's all fine, except that divot the safety plunger goes into is ultra tiny. See here:
So you understand what I mean that a lot of these PP Pistols will sometimes just drop down in SAFE while being shot?
To be continued ...
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And there it is, exactly the opposite of the safety on another old design, the 1911. John Moses had it right; Carl and Fritz? Not so much...see, the dang safety on a PP Series gun is held in place by a tiny spring that puts pressure on a tiny plunger that goes into a tiny divot on the safety drum. Here is the deal:
So see that little spring? The plunger on the left goes in a divot on the safety drum, and the plunger on the right pushes against the extractor. So one spring to control two things. That's all fine, except that divot the safety plunger goes into is ultra tiny. See here:
So you understand what I mean that a lot of these PP Pistols will sometimes just drop down in SAFE while being shot?
To be continued ...
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