Umarex Walther PPK/S

Hello and welcome to another one of our replica reviews. As i'm sure you've guessed by the title and the picture today i will be reviewing the Umarex Walther PPk, in particular the dual colour "nickel" version. As i'm sure many of you know this is a blowback BB firing gun based on the Walther PPK which was first introduced to be used by german police "back in the day" and later used as 007's service pistol becoming an icon in its own right. so that gives you a basic introduction to the ppk, lets move onto the pistol itself.

The Pistol

One of the first thing you'll notice when you pick this gun up is its compact size, even for someone like myself with medium sized hands this gun felt small, a lot smaller than the makarov, yet just as weighty. This weight is due to the guns full metal construction, virtually all of the gun is metal apart from a few things such as the grips and the magazine, and surprisingly the hammer. Although it would have been nice for everything to be metal the feel of the grips doesn't really ruin the feel of the gun when your holding it, it feels just as sturdy as i would expect metal or wood grips to feel. The only thing that let the gun down was the magazine, although spares are available the magazine really doesn't feel very well made at all, and if i'm honest, i can see myself needing to buy extra mags as i'm not sure they are built to last- but i guess thats just the way with most things in todays climate. 

The CO2 for this pistol is housed in the grip of the ppk rather than in a magazine and is easily accessed by simply popping of the grips, unlike other umarex guns you don't need to press in the magazine release catch, you simply pop it open with your thumb. The CO2 housing is a really tight fit when your fitting the 12g cartridge, there really is a knack to doing it. The easiest way i have found to load the co2 is to lower the screw as far as you can then slot the 12g cartridge into the pistol bottom first, if you put the neck of the cartridge in first it won't fir in the pistol at all. One thing i will add whilst on the subject of the co2 bulb, when it runs out, get it out quickly, if you give it time to warm up it can be a challenge to get it back out the pistol.

Now i'll move onto the features of this pistol, which are fairly few and far between. The ppk features fixed sights, both front and back, which isn't an issue for a pistol like this as accuracy is never going to be good enough when using it to need adjustable sights. Although this gun is a blowback pistol there is no slide release catch to be found on the gun, which is very odd when you take into account the fact the slide locks back on the last bb and cannot be released forward again without taking out the magazine and cocking the slide again. this is a nice feature to have when your shooting but it would have been nice to have seen a slide release catch.

 The other main feature on this gun is the working safety catch, it isn't found where you would expect it to be found on the real gun, but nevertheless it is fully functional. as you can see from the picture above the safety can be found on the right hand side of the gun and is a simple sliding safety catch. putting the pistol into safe mode is easy enough, simply slide down the catch which then goes into the small groove that you can see next to the red dot. to put the pistol back into fire mode you simply push the safety in so that it is out of the groove and slide it up to fire mode, its as easy as that.

 
Overall its a great little gun for the price, ypu can pick it up here in the uk for £70, and for the money you get a really nice plinker, and if i'm completely honest thats all it is. but that said its still a very sturdy, well constructed pistol. If you don't like the Nickel finish you can also get a plain black version thats often a bit cheaper than the one shown here. As i said near the start of the review this gun really does suit smaller hands, something that you might want to take into account if you have larger hands. From a collectors point of view its not the most accurate gun to the real steel version, but it's still a great little gun. Also mentioned earlier are the easily available magazines, something that might be of interest to anyone that doesn't want to stop every two seconds to reload the mags. You can even buy ppk specific lasers to put on the gun too, although these can be fairly costly. Thank you for reading another one of our reviews, if you have any questions then please feel free to ask, also if you want to check out a full video review please check out the video below. thanks again.