Saw .22 TPH Stainless this week. It is LNIB. What is this pistol worth? I like it simply because it is unique and has great workmanship.

Clean with the box the asking price is often around $1,000



Shooters can be had around $650

Extra mags are usually over $100

^^

yup,

neat pistols,

a bit small, but pricey,

and well built

...and a reputation for jamming. I had one years ago but could never get it to operate reliably.

Walther TPH story:
At the gun shop where I worked a customer brought in a lightly used TPH. Box and papers, too. My boss bought it cheap. I wanted it so my boss sold it to me for what he paid for it. 4473 was done on the sale, all above board. Took it out and shot it. Bang. Jam. Bang. Jam. I wrote a letter to Interarms about bang, jam, bang, jam and shipped it to them for repair. About a month later I returned home from an errand and sitting in my driveway was a plain jane, low bid Dodge Diplomat that strongly indicated "unmarked car" to me. Sitting on my porch was an equally plain jane unmarked ATF agent. He told me the TPH I sent in was not supposed to have been released from Interarms for distribution or sale. He wanted to know how I got my hands on it. I told him and before he rode off into the sunset, informed me that I would never see the TPH again. Well, that was that!
Another couple of months later, Dodge Diplomat showed up again. He handed me a TPH box, wrapped in about 10 layers of evidence tape and said it was all mine now and the whole thing was a paperwork error. I took the paperwork error out and tried to shoot it. Bang. Jam. Bang. Jam. It had not been repaired. I sold it off.
I still want one. Preferably functional and without the ATF transportation service.

I had a friend at Interarms, and bought one at dealer cost $300. Great little gun. Shot everything I fed it, never a problem. I also had a blued one made in Germany... no fuss, no muss...
Cheers!

I had one. Bought the .22 as I figured it would be cheap and fun. No matter what ammo I put in it, I don’t think it ever fired 4 rounds in a row. Dumped it. Wished I’d bought the .25. But, I was so burned on it, I didn’t.

However, I jumped on early when Seecamp re introduced the .25. What a great little gun. Exactly the same as my Seecamp .32. But, doesn’t care what ammo I put in it.

After the US-made ones appeared, I bought a blued model. It functioned perfectly, and I regret eventually selling it. Obviously, others have not had such good luck with this pistol.

My blue German made has never made a hiccup on any ammo. I bought it "as new" never fired for $500 on GB years ago. I just shot 50 rounds of some old Cascade ammo and it spit them all out with vigor. That said I've always heard the mixed revues you just heard.

When I had one it worked perfectly fine.
I think a big issue contributing to function issues is most people grip it such that the grip impedes the slide movement.

A good trial I suggest often is shoot the gun one handed with the left hand. Often the gun reliability issues resolve proving it is a grip thing.
For those with meaty hands theses little guns are like reciprocating razor blades.
A friend who has meaty hands shot mine once and was a bloody Mess in a single mag

Local store had one NIB for $365 (yeah it was long ago). I was so tempted, but I'd heard about feeding issue. Before that I'd had an Iver Johnson TP-22 on which the frame had cracked and had to be destroyed. I liked that stupid gun, enjoyed shooting it, despite the fact I had no real point to it, and the slide ate me up at the web of my hand.

The tenancy for that design/size/shape to chew on my hand, and the talk of malfunctions kept me from buying the TPH. But it's a gun that still "haunts" me, still wanting one.

(looking back though, far too many things on my "always wanted" list turn out to have been better left on the list when I finally do get one)

I have had two, both of them were the stainless Interarms version. I still have one. Neither ever gave me a bit of trouble and they fed and functioned every time with every brand I had on hand. That said I was prepared with multiple brands of 22lr to find what would work. I had also cleaned up many of the burrs on the stainless and smoothed the back of the slide to keep it from eating my hand prior to shooting them. I regret selling the second one since they have gone up so much in price.

I want to like them, sexy little beasts that they are but, just can't.

Early 90s owned one new for around $375....couldn't get a magazine of anything through it without a malfunction. Long ago traded off.

Around 2002, picked one up in a "cop divorce sale" for about $400. Same thing - very unreliable, much like my friends marriage apparently.

2010 bought another off a retiring coworker at $450, who owned it for pocket carry to check his trap lines. Guess he never needed more than one or two rounds to finish off his trapped catches. Thing wouldn't put a mag through very often, although if you stuffed it with Stingers, sometimes it would. Sold it off for $650.

Sexy guns. Like the sexy ladies after your money, they won't work as much as you'd like.

Sexy 'lady' indeed. But the question always was, "does she have the clap?" Never bought one, but I was tempted.