Wild Romanian
Walther made the P5 with a heavy duty enclosed slide. The P38 pistols were noted for cracked slides because of the defective design of the open top slide. Open top slides such as found on the Walther P38 and Beretta 92 have very little metal in the side rails and when they crack they can also fail catastrophically throwing metal back into the shooters face.
Please document at least a handful of those "cracked slide" catastrophic failures on P38 or P1 pistols. I served four years with the German Army, which issued tens of thousands of P1 pistols with the "weak aluminum frame". Never seen one with a cracked slide, not once. Open-topped slides are not "defective designs", no matter how big the chip on your shoulder regarding the P38 and Beretta 92 designs. Germany has issued that pistol for 60+ years, and I've never heard of anyone getting a slide into their face...not in 4 years of service, and not with several
Wehrmacht veterans in the family.
In some respects an improvement over the P38. Walther did away with the troublesome P38 stamped sheet metal top cover that often blew off during firing. This has happened to every P38 I have ever owned.
So let me get this straight: You think the open-topped slide is "defective", all the covers on all the P38s you've owned have "blown off", and you've owned more than one? Why the repeat purchases of such a sucky design?
The Walther p5, P38 and Berretta also have an outside trigger bar located on the side of the frame. If one takes a nasty fall and slams the pistol against something these bars can break off or move forward and they will fire the pistol without you even touching the trigger if the gun is in the full cock mode. """ The Beretta is so bad that you can actually fire the gun off by merely using your finger to push the bar forward. """""" The Walthers are much more diffcult to set off because of their very flat trigger bars.
That is complete and utter fiction. The P38/P1 series has a firing pin safety, as does the Beretta 92 series. You can pound the transfer bar with a hammer, and the chambered round won't go off. What you describe is technically and physically impossible, but I'd love to see you produce at least one documented incident to prove me wrong. You're thinking of the Japanese Type 94 "Shiki Kenju" service pistol which could, indeed, be fired in such a manner.
The p5's trigger is definetly a lot worse than a commercial P38. It has a tilting firing pin that results in a very creapy pull. The firing pin tilts because when it is in the tilted positon it is locked into the slide so that the firing pin cannot hit the primer of the loaded round in the chamber if the gun is dropped.
Please describe how the shape, size, composition or position of the firing pin has any effect on the trigger pull of a DA/SA autoloader.
The P38, commercial or military, has always had a reputation for horrible DA trigger pull. Back then, people didn't know it was horrible since the P38 was the first DA pistol, and there was no other trigger pull to compare it to.
Because of its heavy weight enclosed slide the aluminum frame of the gun does not start to immedietly self-destruct like in the light weight open top slide and aluminum frame P1's and P38's. I give you this statement from actual experience in usings these weapons and examining them for frame wear after firing as little as 500 rounds out of aluminum frame p1's and commercial P38's. I have seen no appreciable wear so far on my P5 after about 1,200 rounds of ammo ,some of it being very hot. Not so in the P1's and P38 aluminum frame guns I own. I have found extreme gauling and frame rail wear after firing only 500 rounds of ammo through them.
Funny, I've seen hundreds of P1 pistols in the service...most had normal wear from usage, and none of them had "gouged frames". Also, wouldn't more slide mass accelerate the wear on the slide rails, if any? Again, you state that you own multiple examples of the "self-destructing aluminum frame" P1s and P38s. You either have enough money to waste on guns that you know to be crap, or you're a slow learner.
From your vague and often grossly incorrect op-ed pieces about what seems to be every firearm ever made since Beretta started business back when cavalry still wore armor, I must surmise that most of your encounters with these weapons were on the pages of GunWorld and
Soldier of Fiction. You've been asked many times to back up your assertions with evidence, and you should start to realize that many of the knowledgeable folks on this board actually have experience with the weapons you describe in such entertaining terms.
