Always wanted a P5, but a little expensive for me. I have a 1983 Walther P38, but the trigger reset is much shorter than your P5. I am a little surprised as I thought the P5 had the same trigger as P38, where the P88 is a different trigger altogether.
congratulations for the accuracy in the explanation of the now very rare weapon! I am writing to you from Italy 🇮🇹 and I can assure you that the .30 Luger (7.65 Parabellum) versions were built only for the Italian civilian market since the 9x19 was forbidden to private citizens, and only the full size version, while then only 140 examples of the P5 compact were imported in the 9x21 i.m.i. caliber. , currently the value of a P5 starts from €500 up to €2,200!!! The magazines alone cost around €100-150 and are hard to find! I'd like to know what happened to the 50,000 Dutch Police specimens!!! congratulations again happy new year 2023🍾💥🥂and a dear greeting from Italy👋👋👋
I know some of the Dutch Police ones ended up in the US, can't say all of them did though. I wouldn't be surprised if they still have a number in reserve/storage. I actually did bid on one of the Italian market P5s several years ago. It came with both a 7.65 and 9mm barrel. I dropped out when the bidding got to be way more than I could afford.
@@servicerifle16 I bought the P5 full size new for €1300 in .30 luger caliber for another 2 magazines I spent another €300, they are fantastic weapons for personal defense, soon I will get a P5 compact in 9 mm, which are around 1000 € used. a warm greeting 🍾💥🥂👍
@@monotech20.14 From what I've seen online Walther aluminum frames whether it's P1s, P5s or P88s have a habit of cracking where the takedown is. I think NATO spec 124gr 9mm is probably fine but I wouldn't feed it a steady diet of +P. I mostly stick with light 115gr range ammo since they're more of collector's items these days.
@@servicerifle16 I see I see. I saw LifeSizePotato's video on the P5 , he said it was designed to handle the hotter ammo. But like you said, that could have meant the NATO ammo.
I was fortunate to own one of this classic P5, love the size it fits well on your hand.
Always wanted a P5, but a little expensive for me. I have a 1983 Walther P38, but the trigger reset is much shorter than your P5. I am a little surprised as I thought the P5 had the same trigger as P38, where the P88 is a different trigger altogether.
congratulations for the accuracy in the explanation of the now very rare weapon! I am writing to you from Italy 🇮🇹 and I can assure you that the .30 Luger (7.65 Parabellum) versions were built only for the Italian civilian market since the 9x19 was forbidden to private citizens, and only the full size version, while then only 140 examples of the P5 compact were imported in the 9x21 i.m.i. caliber. , currently the value of a P5 starts from €500 up to €2,200!!! The magazines alone cost around €100-150 and are hard to find! I'd like to know what happened to the 50,000 Dutch Police specimens!!! congratulations again happy new year 2023🍾💥🥂and a dear greeting from Italy👋👋👋
I know some of the Dutch Police ones ended up in the US, can't say all of them did though. I wouldn't be surprised if they still have a number in reserve/storage.
I actually did bid on one of the Italian market P5s several years ago. It came with both a 7.65 and 9mm barrel. I dropped out when the bidding got to be way more than I could afford.
@@servicerifle16 I bought the P5 full size new for €1300 in .30 luger caliber for another 2 magazines I spent another €300, they are fantastic weapons for personal defense, soon I will get a P5 compact in 9 mm, which are around 1000 € used. a warm greeting 🍾💥🥂👍
Amazing how people are so worried about carrying P5Cs these days due to being rare. I had one issued for 6 years and carried it daily.
British?
@Kennard Lang Yep. Ex-UDR/R Irish. We had these as personal protection weapons.
@@PaddyInf I thought so, heard the P5C replaced the Walther PP.
Yep carried one through the 90's then when they started to remove them as service issue I bought a CZ75.
Great film. Wish I had one but hard to find and no money.
Beautiful gun. Very nice!
It seems a little weird that they would design it to eject from the left specifically because it’s more comfortable to clear jams that way.
Good accurate account Kennard Lang for this piece
Weren't these P5s made to handle hotter ammo?
@@monotech20.14 From what I've seen online Walther aluminum frames whether it's P1s, P5s or P88s have a habit of cracking where the takedown is. I think NATO spec 124gr 9mm is probably fine but I wouldn't feed it a steady diet of +P. I mostly stick with light 115gr range ammo since they're more of collector's items these days.
@@servicerifle16 I see I see. I saw LifeSizePotato's video on the P5 , he said it was designed to handle the hotter ammo. But like you said, that could have meant the NATO ammo.
@@servicerifle16 And yes, the gun is rare, less than 300k were made ,I think.
@@monotech20.14 there's around 5000ish Compacts made. Don't know the numbers of full-size P5s though.
@@servicerifle16 I was talking about all P5 made.
The military/police gun does not have' Compact " on the slide.
Also used by James Bond in Octopussy and Never Say Never Again.
Keep it up side down and it will reassemble easy.
If only CA compliant.
Someone in the shower?