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I Picked Up Another PPK
November 13, 2022, 05:38 PM
Mars_AttacksI Picked Up Another PPK
This time it's the Interarms licensed USA version before Smith and Wesson took over. Ranger Arms manufactured them. It's a 1989 and I do believe the serials started in 1983 once production was set up.
They are good pistols without the ugly serial pit of the Smith and Wesson.
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November 13, 2022, 08:44 PM
PCWyomingNice.
Mine starts with A076xxx
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November 13, 2022, 09:06 PM
XLTserial pit?
November 13, 2022, 09:34 PM
pedropcolaI have an old Interarms PPK/S. It’s beautiful. It’s an awful shooter. I will never get rid of it. I love your gun and would have bought it too. When S&W added that horrendous beaver tail it was all over for me. I would rather get bit by the slide than be seen with that awful beaver tail. Lol
November 13, 2022, 10:15 PM
P250UA5Very nice, a PPK is on my shortlist of 'just because' pistols.
The Enemy's gate is down. November 14, 2022, 06:24 AM
Mars_Attacksquote:
Originally posted by XLT:
serial pit?
It looks like a swimming pool cut into the frame with an ugly laser burned number and QR code.
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November 14, 2022, 06:41 AM
Mars_Attacksquote:
Originally posted by PCWyoming:
Nice.
Mine starts with A076xxx
PC
You have a 1994 Ranger Interarms.
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November 14, 2022, 08:12 AM
maxwayneMine starts S00
November 14, 2022, 08:54 AM
ViscoA03 for me.
November 14, 2022, 09:12 AM
Mars_Attacksquote:
Originally posted by Visco:
A03 for me.
Ranger
1988
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November 14, 2022, 09:13 AM
Mars_Attacksquote:
Originally posted by maxwayne:
Mine starts S00
Ranger
1983/84 if it has three zeros or two zeros.
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November 14, 2022, 05:32 PM
ViscoThink you nailed it. I got the box down and it has a label "WALTHER PPK 380 ACP STAINLESS 088". Seems like I carried it longer than that, The Rodney King riots were in 1992. After I saw that guy get dragged from his truck and smacked in the head with a cinder block I bought a Beretta 92FS.
November 14, 2022, 08:47 PM
Sgt 127Mines a PPK. B0061XX. In .32 ACP. Searched long to find one.
November 14, 2022, 09:00 PM
wrightdI lost one like that in a burglary. I still miss that gun, I loved it. Back then the HP technology wasn't there in terms of nose geometry and ballistics compatibility with that particular model, but if I still had that gun I'm pretty sure I'd find some reliable defense ammo to shoot in it. When I was young I used to empty magazines of ball ammo reloads into mud ground right in front of me. Lots of useless testosterone got used up, probably for the better back then.
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Wile E. Coyote School of DIY Disaster November 15, 2022, 03:45 AM
Mars_AttacksGlaser Pow R Ball is the way to go with these.
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November 15, 2022, 05:39 AM
Blume9mmquote:
Originally posted by Visco:
Think you nailed it. I got the box down and it has a label "WALTHER PPK 380 ACP STAINLESS 088". Seems like I carried it longer than that, The Rodney King riots were in 1992. After I saw that guy get dragged from his truck and smacked in the head with a cinder block I bought a Beretta 92FS.
I bought a Colt Trooper in 357mag with a 6" barrel. Carried her in my work vehicle for years.
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November 15, 2022, 07:56 PM
lot_45OP, nice PPK! Is that 380 or 32?
I ended up making an impulse buy for a blue finish PPK/S in 380. A PPK in 32 would have been more of interest, but the novelty of the serial number beginning with “007” pushed me over the cliff.
Given the right opportunity for a nice shooter in 32, I would take the leap again whether it be a PPK or PPK/S…
What’s not to like about a “cool” all steel pistol?
November 16, 2022, 01:40 PM
XLTI found one just like yours interarms .380 one mag 500 bucks out the door Good Deal? very clean.
November 16, 2022, 03:12 PM
Mars_AttacksIt's a good deal. They are going for $600+.
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November 16, 2022, 07:03 PM
XLTok thanks