Walther PPQ M2 Review

The Tranquility One You lot Should Watch: The Walther PPQ M2

Walther quietly makes some of the best striker pistols on the market, equally we volition adjure to in this Walther PPQ M2 review. If you're starting to look exterior Glock, Springfield and S&West for a polymer-framed, striker-fired slightly compact gun, the PPQ should exist the summit of your list because it'south excellent.

It'due south not radically dissimilar than the peak sellers in the segment, but certain details take been seen to that add up to a better overall pistol.

How so? Let's get into that.

Walther PPQ Specifications

Walther PPQ M2

Before we get into the review, let's go over Walther PPQ specifications. It's a non-quite-compact, not-quite-full-size pistol. It's marginally bigger than a Glock xix, just not by too much, and then it's meaty enough for daily bear though some folks will non agree.

Standard butt length is 4 inches, and standard dimensions are 7.1 inches long, 5.3 inches alpine and 1.iii inches wide. Empty weight is 24.05 ounces, and the standard carrying capacity is xv+1 rounds of 9x19mm.

The PPQ is besides available with a 4.half dozen-inch threaded barrel, and there are two longslide versions with a 5-inch barrel. The gun is as well available in .twoscore S&W, though the barrels on the .40 vs 9mm models are increased to 4.2 inches.

The pistol features swappable palm swells, aircraft with a pocket-size, medium and large backstrap. The grip has Walther'due south ergonomic appointments, including very slight finger groove bumps and their cross-directional stippling for a grippy surface that isn't too rough.

Controls are ambidextrous, with slide-release levers on both sides. The PPQ M2 differs from the first-gen (now PPQ Classic) in that it features a magazine eject button - which can be swapped for lefties - rather than European-style paddles. Take-down is washed with a U-shaped pull tab; you lot just pull down and it releases the slide. A trigger pull is required to get the slide off, but the takedown tab is much easier to utilize than Glock's sliders.

The pistol features fore and aft slide serrations, and the grit cover of the frame has a Picatinny rail for mounting accessories. The sights are low-profile though easily visible. Standard units are white dots (3 of 'em) and night sights tin be had for an upcharge. Both sights are windage adaptable.

The centerpiece, of class, is Walther'southward trigger, which is outstanding for this type of pistol. The trigger breaks at 5.6 lbs, with a short 0.4-in travel and short (0.one inches!) reset, with an audible, tactile click.

Walther Offer 30 24-hour interval Test Drive Shoot Information technology. Love It. Buy Information technology. Plan For A Limited Time

30 Day Test Drive

Walther Arms has announced a sort of 30 day "examination drive" return policy for a limited time, which they telephone call their "Shoot It. Dear Information technology. Buy Information technology." plan. There are 2 portions to it, one for all full general sales and others through select Walther dealers.

That certainly sounds like a dandy return policy and warranty.

Get-go is a thirty-twenty-four hour period render policy. If yous purchase a Walther PPQ, you tin can return the gun within the first 30 days of ownership. If you determine you lot want to send the pistol dorsum, you have to contact Walther Arms but they'll requite you a return label and so you don't accept to pay shipping. You send the gun back, they inspect information technology and cut you a bank check for the buy cost.

The Shoot It. Honey It. Buy It. program also includes a 30 day "effort earlier you lot buy" program. This, nevertheless, is a bit different. To enroll in the programme, y'all accept to contact Walther and enroll in the program.

You must provide a valid credit or debit card, which Walther will pre-authorize for a $1,000 charge. Information technology is Not - echo, NOT - a hold on funds or a accuse, merely a pre-authorization.

Once that'southward complete, Walther volition send you lot a voucher, which you take to the nearest participating Walther Arms dealer. You lot get to accept a PPQ habitation for 30 days. You go to shoot information technology. You lot tin carry information technology. Y'all can call it "Susan." (Which would exist weird.) Do whatsoever you want, but at the end of the thirty-day trial catamenia, you lot have to either ship it back or pay for it.

A 30 Day Examination Drive trial menses...one wonders where they might accept gotten the idea from. Sounds pretty awesome, if you ask us.

The Shoot It. Love It. Buy It. program starts basically at present (every bit of the time of this writing) but both offers elapse on 6/xxx/2019, so time is of the essence.

Walther PPQ M2 Review

Walther PPQ M2

Maybe the PPQ M2 isn't perfect...just as far every bit this Walther PPQ M2 review is concerned, this is well-nigh as proficient as pistols of this size and firing system go. Granted, there are a few things that could tilt a person away from it, but we'll go into that.

Yous aren't going to notice a more than ergonomic pistol in this segment, except maybe for the VP9. And as things get as far every bit the Walther PPQ vs H&K VP9, the two pistols are mind-bogglingly similar. The grip is basically the same. The rear of the slide looks darn near the same. The trigger is nearly as makes no difference as good on both pistols. The VP9 has the trick charging handles and some slightly cleaner machining and costs well-nigh $lxx more in stores.

The shelf on the beavertail of the frame allows for very high, tight grip which makes for excellent shooting. Recoil is incredibly manageable and the pistol is very authentic. The trigger baby-sit really flares where it meets the grip, resting very comfortably atop the heart finger, and the palm swell sits perfectly in the lower tour of the palm.

The trigger is shockingly expert. Short travel, with a clean, crisp break, with a brusk but aural and tactile reset. There may be no gun easier to ride the reset with.

There are a couple of niggles, still. Aftermarket support pales in comparing to Glock or Yard&P pistols. Information technology lacks a manual safety, which some people exercise prefer to have, though information technology is arguably unnecessary with the three passive condom devices and using your grey matter.

The grip is a picayune long for a carry pistol, though not unmanageable at 5.three inches. The PPQ Subcompact would exist a piddling more manageable with an extended magazine for that purpose, but plenty of people carry this pistol and those of similar dimensions daily and then information technology's inappreciably undoable.

Most stores cost it just under $500. You may find information technology for as depression as $450 new, but $500 is more like information technology which actually makes information technology quite competitive compared to a Glock. An M&P9 can be had for a lot less in many cases, but I - me, personally - would argue to save up and get one of these instead were I in the market place for a full-size-ish striker pistol. The trigger and ergonomics are just besides good.

If yous told me I had to go go a striker gun...there are only a couple that I'd come home with. The Walther PPQ M2 is 1 of them.

Sam Hoober

About The Author

Built-in in southeastern Washington State, Sam Hoober graduated in 2011 from Eastern Washington University. He resides in the great Inland Northwest, with his wife and child. His varied interests and hobbies include camping ground, fishing, hunting, and spending fourth dimension at the gun range as often every bit possible.