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    PPK WaA 359 Marked

    Hi all, Here is my PPK Marked WaA 359 Walther Pistol. I have been told this is a PP / PPK Mix. Is this war time Or a new thing? This is a UK gun and has never been to the US. Mick
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        P.S. The slide is marked also with WaA 359 this is very faint but it is there and the slide is "NOT" numberd on the outside. Mick

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          Originally posted by iron_cross67 View Post
          P.S. The slide is marked also with WaA 359 this is very faint but it is there and the slide is "NOT" numberd on the outside. Mick
          How about inside the slide ?

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            Hi, The numbers scratched into the slide look like (981) but i'm not sure as they are very hard to read. Mick

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              Originally posted by iron_cross67 View Post
              Hi, The numbers scratched into the slide look like (981) but i'm not sure as they are very hard to read. Mick
              This gun was put together wrong somewhere along the line with another gun.

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                Hi, (987) not 981 Sorry.

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                  Originally posted by jack944 View Post
                  This gun was put together wrong somewhere along the line with another gun.
                  Not unusual due to a lot of spare parts left at the factory at the wars end and many were put together by the GIs.

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                    This is a total parts gun,It has a PP frame with a PPK slide and barrel.This configuration was used postwar on the PPK/s but was never available during the Third Reich period.Jay Parisi

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                      Parts guns............BILL

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                        Originally posted by JAYP View Post
                        This configuration was used postwar on the PPK/s but was never available during the Third Reich period.Jay Parisi
                        So not one german modified his gun in the war then.........?
                        And YES this gun is from two parts as i said in my post "bill" This i know.

                        I believe this gun was modified during World War Two by a german soldier or the like.
                        This will give him an extra shot in the mag and a stronger frame than the PPK.

                        Also i like this modified PP/PPK gun. Mick

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                          Originally posted by iron_cross67 View Post
                          So not one german modified his gun in the war then.........?
                          And YES this gun is from two parts as i said in my post "bill" This i know.

                          I believe this gun was modified during World War Two by a german soldier or the like.
                          This will give him an extra shot in the mag and a stronger frame than the PPK.

                          Also i like this modified PP/PPK gun. Mick
                          There is more to the modification than just swapping slides. I believe the PP and PPK barrels are press fit and pinned. Hardly the type of tools available to a soldier in the field.

                          If the soldier has a PP and PPK, why not just keep both of them if he went to this much trouble to get one more shot?

                          If you like the pistol that is fine, but it is non-productive to make up the history we like to match the pistol.

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                            Originally posted by Johnny Peppers View Post
                            There is more to the modification than just swapping slides. I believe the PP and PPK barrels are press fit and pinned. Hardly the type of tools available to a soldier in the field.

                            If the soldier has a PP and PPK, why not just keep both of them if he went to this much trouble to get one more shot?

                            If you like the pistol that is fine, but it is non-productive to make up the history we like to match the pistol.
                            Hello Johnny,
                            First i did not say in the field at any time! The owner just needs a gunsmith or an armorer can do this simple modification. And just chainging one part is a modification. IE Slide or the barrel. Mick

                            P.S. I also have guns 100 years older than this PP/PPK and they have been modified as well this is history and not fantasy.

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                              Originally posted by iron_cross67 View Post

                              P.S. I also have guns 100 years older than this PP/PPK and they have been modified as well this is history and not fantasy.
                              Most of those guns if that age did get modified, but they were more simple then. Blackpowder guns were lot of times switched from flintlock to cap. Also at that time some had there barrels shortened. But those modifications were because technology changed and improved, not because somebody wanted the extra bullet. Plus we could never know if this was done professionally because you cannot shoot it. Which I would not recommend anyways even if you could.
                              So I would agree with the rest that this is a parts gun, probably put together in a factory after a war from leftover parts. Sometimes you see the guns with no serial number that GI's put them together in the factory from leftover parts.
                              Just IMHO

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