It is positioned high enough to avoid unintentional use, but still easily reached by the firing-hand’s thumb. The ambidextrous slide-lock lever is long and serrated. Gripping the PDP feels form fitting, tactile and purposeful. In contrast, the PDP’s texture is refined and covers a lot of surface area, not just certain areas and shapes. If this grip were designed by Americans, it would be comfy, dull or weird, to accommodate the maximum number of potential shooters. It works like the bolstering in the seat of a performance automobile that holds a driver through sharp turns. The grip frame and style of texturing is distinctively Teutonic. It’s intuitive to fill the gap up and under the protective beavertail. The bottom of the grip is still flared, too, which supports the high undercut at the back of the triggerguard to raise your hand position on the frame. On that subject, the frame of the PDP eliminates the finger grooves that were on the PPQ but continues the subtle finger humps on the sides. Walther includes interchangeable backstraps for the grip, which are great to tune how the frame fills the palm your hand and positions your index finger in relation to the trigger. Though the Full Size PDP’s grip frame is longer than the Compact’s to accept 17-round magazines, and the compact PDP’s shorter for 15-rounders, the contours and texturing are identical. It becomes more tactile as it is squeezed. The texture is made of many hexagonal pyramids. Walther’s new Performance Duty Texture wraps from the sides of the grip and around the backstraps. Both have stepped chambers and polygonal rifling, which is known to produce accurate groups. One is a full-size variant featuring a 4½-inch barrel, and the second is a compact model with a 4-inch barrel. I now have two PDP samples that represent Walther’s first introductions. Army Special Forces veteran (now firearm training instructor) Larry Vickers ( ), I suspended all temptations to purchase a new striker-fired pistol until the PDP was launched. After shooting a sample in a pistol class with retired U.S. Then life got better with the Steel Frame (SF) series in 2019.Ĭompact Steel Frame models were introduced just a year ago, but while many were clamoring for a sample of the Q4 Compact SF, Walther was already circulating a few pre-production prototypes of the PDP for jury testing. However, the best variants didn’t appear until the Q4 was announced in 2017 and the Q5 Match arrived in 2018. In my opinion, the PPQ matured when Walther added the M2 push-button magazine release for the American market in 2013. I suppose that’s why it seems unfortunate, especially given that the PPQ was decidedly a better pistol than the P99 it replaced. Introduced in 2011, it doesn’t seem as though the PPQ was with us that long. When I learned that Walther was going to be discontinuing the PPQ, I asked “Why? It’s a great gun!” Don’t get me wrong, I respect the outgoing PPQ. Sure, there’s still a German accent to the PDP, but I can easily understand what this pistol says for Walther. The new Personal Defense Pistol (PDP) wears Walther branding and has some familiarity with the PPQ, but it’s different. MANY OF MY GUNS seem to speak German, but not this one.
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