Czechnologist
Concerned Citizen
- Mar 9, 2016
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A year ago, you couldn't have given me a striker-fired pistol. I had this irrational prejudice towards anything that wasn't made of metal and didn't weigh damn near 4 lbs. Now, I own three of them. My friend Fidelity is only partially to blame this time, though. I put most of the blame on Walther for building a striker-fired pistol that's clearly head and shoulders above the competition, in terms of accuracy and trigger quality. I had to have one. Now, I have two. I'll probably add a Q5 Match and a PPS before the end of the year.
50 rounds, 10 yards, Geco 230gr FMJ
Had just enough time yesterday to go over to HTC and run a box of ammo thru it and what you see here are the first 50 shots at 10 yards on this target, unedited, in all their spaz-tastic, Blaster229 angst-inducing glory. My first six shots all went left but once I self-corrected, the rest of them went (more or less) where I wanted.
I figured that recoil would be ridiculous, being that the pistol weighs only a few more ounces than its 9mm cousin and it is a .45 ACP but it wasn't bad at all! Definitely more pronounced than 9mm - it feels like you're shooting a .45 - but not that much more than most steel-framed 1911's I've shot. Kudos to Walther's design of the PPQ 45. How they managed to achieve that by simply increasing the size/weight of the slide and designing the grip to lower the bore-axis in the shooter's hand seems to me like a very German-thing to do. Those guys are scary-smart. It totally works.
I know, I know. Aesthetically-speaking, the PPQ 45 is right up there at the top of the fugly-scale. To me, it looks like they took a Glock and a Hi Point and got Quasimodo to mash them together in a hydraulic press under the light of a full moon. I don't care, though. I didn't get it for its looks.
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