I don’t plan on buying this item, but I will still avoid madmen with deadblow hammers and practiced hands...
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I don’t plan on buying this item, but I will still avoid madmen with deadblow hammers and practiced hands...
If the PDP doesn't drop the striker on hard reloads it will resolve the biggest issue with the PPQ.
It doesn't interest me and I won't be buying one but I'm happy to see another option on the market, as that seems to drive others to innovate and come up with new offerings.
On a side note, does anyone else feel like they're on Walther PDP overload right now? I open IG and it's nothing but the PDP, I open YouTube and it's nothing but the PDP. Hell, there was a 2+ hour P&S modcast about it and it looked like they were all wearing matching Walther shirts and hats. I don't remember this much fanfare about any other polymer frame striker fired semi auto in recent years, and that includes the VP9 and the Glock single stacks.
I think this is pretty typical for a brand new gun with a strict media release date- everyone is just releasing their pre-made content for it all at once.
I do want one of these but it seems pointless to make another platform switch for me. I've played with PPQ's before and thought the recoil felt worse than a G19 because of ergos (including that abysmal rubbery grip texture) and bore axis but liked the trigger. The PDP seems to improve on ergos substantially, now has a true full size model, and can accept a dot from the get go. I wish that companies would follow SIG's lead on dot mounting by just having slides milled for the RMR and DPP combo instead of trying to allow for every pattern under the sun to get a mounting plate that I don't care about.
Plates are going to be the solution until someone invents a truly universal footprint (unlikely, since we have so damn many footprints now).
I had hoped with .MIL adoption of the P320, the DPP footprint would be 'the one', but so far that hasn't been the case. But we never know, if .MIL actually gets around to looking to adopt a pistol optic, then manufacturers may move to the DPP footprint full time to take a shot at the contract. Remains to be seen.
In any case, C&H Precision Weapons was one of the people apparently consulted about the RDS mount system for the PDP. And they make a goodly portion of their living designing and selling adapter plates. Besides, it doesn't behoove any manufacturer to ignore the market, by not allowing people to use their pet optic on a given gun, because then people just won't buy the gun.
I personally doubt that vortex, doctor, eotech, c-more, and burris are making significant proportions of pistol mounted red dots in 2021 hence why I think it at least makes sense to go with the SIG solution of RMR + DPP combo pattern. On the other hand, the best argument I see for staying with optic plates is for closed emitter sights that are very far from a mounting standard since there's so few of them.
I should add that SIG sells plenty of pistols with their mounting solution, and for the people that still desire the use of a different rds there are adapter plates available.
Let’s face it, despite your analysis, both of you would buy a Walther in a heart beat if you could shoot five to seven percent better with it on known drills, and I would second mortgage your house if I could shoot three percent better in matches with the new Walther. You are just hoping in this case, it is once again the Indian and not the arrow.
Of course, most people would buy anything that would, by itself, improve performance by 5-7%.
However, in my experience things like that don’t come along too often. We’ll see if the new shiny lives up to the hype that appears to be building. And, my “wait one or more years after introduction of shiny new pistol rule” still applies here. It has served me extremely well in the past, after all.
Played with all three sizes at LGS. FS grip is very good with enough "squareness" to index well.
Trigger is PPQ/VP9
A sear blocking safety away from a carry holster. Trigger is too short and light to be safe with a SCD IMHO.
Likely a good gamer.
Well thought out all the way around.
Wonder if they will offer other types of triggers? Like the QA, AS, or M3 version like in Europe. Can’t imagine a lighter trigger than that on my M1 Q? I ordered the heavier trigger return for mine.