The Walther P38 - Shooting a classic military pistol

[us019255]

Thanks for the video.
I have and have fun shooting a Russian capture p-38. It is reasonably accurate, even though the bore is badly pitted.

In any event I have two comments:

First, this piece has the worst double action trigger pull I have ever experienced. As a kid I had cap guns with better triggers. Is a really bad double action pull typical?

Second, the P-38 does not have a hammer block on the safety. I have heard that sometimes they discharge upon activation of the safety. Is this true??

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[gunner]

Thanks for the video.
I have and have fun shooting a Russian capture p-38. It is reasonably accurate, even though the bore is badly pitted.

In any event I have two comments:

First, this piece has the worst double action trigger pull I have ever experienced. As a kid I had cap guns with better triggers. Is a really bad double action pull typical?

Second, the P-38 does not have a hammer block on the safety. I have heard that sometimes they discharge upon activation of the safety. Is this true??

Never happened to me and i carried a P1/P38 long enough at the Army. And you´re correct about that trigger weight. Compared to the now in service H&K P8, the P1/P38 was the most unaccurate pistol we had. Some were evil enough to say that the most damage you can do with this pistol is if you will throw it against your enemies head! We really didn´t liked it much.

[MilitaryArms]

Never happened to me and i carried a P1/P38 long enough at the Army. And you´re correct about that trigger weight. Compared to the now in service H&K P8, the P1/P38 was the most unaccurate pistol we had. Some were evil enough to say that the most damage you can do with this pistol is if you will throw it against your enemies head! We really didn´t liked it much.

I heard it was often called the "lightening pistol" since you could never hit the same spot twice with it.

I found my pistol to be reasonably accurate at combat distances (7-15 yards). It doesn't group like my Glock or M9, but it seemed to get them into the kill zone with little effort. I agree, the double action is heavy and difficult to master. I've never been a fan of double action autos, I much prefer striker fired guns.