[Sophia]

Don't know how to do a poll.
Question is which is more aestheically pleasing to the eye . Wife says her Sig is a more handsome pistol than a 1960's vintage made in West Germany PPK. I told her she's mistaken.
What say you?

Rich
Waiting to be banished to the doghouse, till she needs something fixed ;-)

The PPK is a much sexier looking gun. The Sig looks blunt and boxy. But... and you knew there was a but coming... I've shot both and much prefer the Sig.

 

[Sophia]

But a Walther with a spring kit, is a marvelous 380. DA/SA all the way. Bond by the way carried in 32 acp. Which was a step up from his 25 acp beretta.

I've read some of the interviews with Ian Fleming. At a loss for a name for his character he was glancing around the room for inspiration. His gaze fell on a bird watching guide written by James Bond, and there you have it. He said he liked that it was a plain, mundane, unexceptional name.

In the novels/films Bond had the Walther forced on him after he got shot up when his Beretta snagged in holster. In real life, Fleming was harangued by a gunnut into making the change after, inter alia, it was pointed out the 32 acp was then easily found throughout Europe and fit the theme of a world traveler; though the gunnut rated the PPK as inferior to other choices it was then in service with German undercover police so there you have it. In gratitude for the advice, Fleming named the armorer after his pen-pal gunnut (Geoffrey Boothroyd) but it became 'Q' in the films.

Anyway, there was nothing special about the PPK.

 

[Sophia]

Steered you folks wrong, that title was a series about Flemming.

That's good. I was wracking my brain trying to recall if I had seen or heard of it.