Just got rid of my new P99...

I'm with vyper005 on this one. You all are saying that if I purchase a new $600.00 gun I should expect some malfunctions for about 500 rds? I don't think so. If you pay that kind of money it should work. If it doesn't, then its not reliable. I will have patience with guns I don't carry, but if I have any intentions of carrying the gun, it better be flawless 99.9% of the time. I've never seen a Glock be that unreliable out of the box (I'm not even a Glock advocate, they just work as intended). My Steyr wasn't like that, my Kahr P 40 was and its gone, never to be carried by me. My Sig was also never a problem pistol. Walthers may be good guns and vyper005 got a bad one, but I don't blame him one bit for selling it. I'm not taking that kind of chance with my life.
 
If it weren't for Ian Fleming, I doubt modern day Walthers would garner such high praise...I hummed the James bond theme the first day out with my MIG 66 PPK but the tune stuck in my throat after a jam with the first magazine of hard ball. (and quite a few afterwards)......sold it faster than a DB5......what's even scarier is these are supposed to be far superior to the American versions...
 
I never said he did wrong by selling it. Although, I do think he should have kept it a while longer. It funny that I see a lot of brand new Kimbers (at least $900 guns) out at the range jamming all the time, yet with a little more oil or a small breaking period they work just fine after that. And I have yet to see a reliable Glock. Some of my friends who are police, bring their carry guns out to the range with them and all have jammed. I think this marketing "perfection" crap has really got a lot of people fooled. They aren't perfect.

P99
 
Actually Walther's made a name for themselves long before Ian Fleming came along. You should look "across the pond" and see just how popular Walther's have been. In the States most European guns aren't that popular. However The Walther banner is very well know in other nations.

P99
 
I'm with vyper005 on this one. You all are saying that if I purchase a new $600.00 gun I should expect some malfunctions for about 500 rds? I don't think so. If you pay that kind of money it should work. If it doesn't, then its not reliable. I will have patience with guns I don't carry, but if I have any intentions of carrying the gun, it better be flawless 99.9% of the time.
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I agree 100%. My Walther P99s (Two of them, one Black original trigger and one Military OD Green, both 9mm) have been 100% reliable from round one (both bought new). Every one of my H&Ks, Sigs, Berettas and Glocks have been 100% reliable.

I cannot say that about:

  • Steyr M357 - Multiple FTFeed, FTFire in first 100 rounds
  • Steyr S9 - Two FTFeed, FTExtract in first 75 rounds

Steyrs seem to be running fine now, but that was disconcerting.

My new Autauga .32ACP had some FTFeed, FTFire in the first 100 rounds, but then again, it only cost $240, and Autauga warns you that it takes 100 rounds to break it in, and the hollow points I was using were lead tipped (trouble). It smoothed out after about 60 rounds, but I will not be carrying lead tipped hollowpoints. Good for practice, but for carry, jacketed hollowpoints only!

James
 
Guys,
The P99's already gone...My new Sig will be in real soon...Maybe I should have put more rounds thru the P99 but I was so pissed off to the point that I wanted to just get rid of it...If I had kept the gun,I would always be thinking about how the gun malfunctioned and is it going to do it again real soon...Again thats just me...As mentioned before...I've never had a gun do this to me right out of the box....:(
 
I sure hope your SIG works good. My Uncle uses one for his personal protection plan. I really like it. It shoots great and felt really good in my hand. But the Walther, for me, is better. Which model did you get?

P99
 
Patience? That's what the "P" in P99 stands for:)
They want you to patiently break in your new pistola :) Trust me; I'm "patiently" working with my Kahr "P"9 :)


Mike M.
 
Hellow Vyper. Hey I am really curious. Was your Walther a real one or one of the fakes that Smith & Wesson was secretly marketing. I am not talking about their legitmate clone that has their own slide configuration. I am speaking of the Walther they made that was an exact duplicate of the German gun except it had a cheaply painted logo on the slide. Not a roll mark and had no German proof marks on the barrel or slide.

I have read that early P99's did indeed have functioning problems but it was not stated wether the guns were real Walthers or fake's made by Smith & Wesson (S&W slide and barrel with german walther frame).

I personally do have a Walther P99 9mm. Accuracy is outstanding, trigger pull extremely good and the gun has functioned with all ammo tested so far.

Having said all that I still hate plastic pistols but I think the Walther P99 is one of the better ones. At least it has bin in my experience. It shoots a lot better than my two Glock 9mm's a model 19 and a model 17.

Of course my P99 is a 9mm not a .40. Perhaps they are indeed two different animals. It would not suprise me. This is not the first time I have heard people complain that a 40 S&W did not work. W.R.

P.S. My Walther vibrates even worse than my Glocks do. It is not a very pleasant gun to shoot. As you can see I give praise where praise is do and I criticise where criticism is due. I pull no punches in my evaluations. I send no love poems to firearms. W.R.
 
Vyper,

WR has a good point. I've seen a couple of these S&W made P99's and they are junk!! They won't have the proof marks on them. Let us know, maybe you just got the crappy Smith version.

P99
 
I sold mine a while back too. However in fairness to Walther the slide locking back too soon issue has been fixed all you need to do is get a new slide stop from them. I sold mine because it had excessive muzzle flip for a 40 sw and the accuracy was very load tempermental. Also no one made a 357 sig barrel for it so why bother with it.
PAT
 
vyper, good luck with the SIG, hope it works out well for ya, we have a 232 for the wife...love the gun. anytime you're in my neighborhood, give a hollar and i'll let ya toss a few rounds from my p99.


Adept
 
Thanks for all the replies...At least a few of you know how I feel...My P99 was the real thing...Proof marked on slide,barrel & frame...It had the stamped Walther P99 emblem on the side not the painted...It seems to me that most of you have had luck with the 9mm ones...maybe the 40's are a little different...who knows...Since I've never had a problem with Sigs and I shoot them the best,I think I'm just gonna stick to them for awhile :)
 
viper..you probably have an "unsupported chamber".....

http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/review/steyr40.htm

Read this indepth article and see how the Walther and Glock are inferior to the Steyr pistols. He talks about "unsupported chambers", "bore axis", how these various guns are assembled and how the Steyr is superior..........

Read it and you'll see.....

swat11
 
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