Competitors-ready 9mms are all the fashion immediately. Virtually each main producer builds a minimum of one 9 with an 18-round minimal capability, threaded barrel, optics lower, a barrel between 4 and 5 inches, and different customized touches. The PDP Professional-X has all this, in spades. Let’s lower to the chase… in case you are available in the market for a 9mm to take to competitions, give this one a glance.
This Walther PDP Professional-X is a really good pistol. The way in which it handles, its controls, the way in which it’s constructed… very good. I must say up entrance that I are inclined to gravitate in direction of older-style semi-autos such because the Browning Excessive Energy, 1911s, and different weapons like them.
Nevertheless, I’m not a Luddite… I personal a number of striker-fired pistols and revel in capturing them. I actually like my S&W Bodyguard 2.0, my Springfield Armory Echelon Professional, XDM Elite 10mm, and others. So it was with some curiosity that I opened the flowery case by which the gun got here.
… and found the gun, three 20-round magazines, and two additional backstraps, {a magazine} loader, an Allen wrench, and the ever present lock. Once more, very good.
Let’s have a look at the gun.
We see a pistol with an ambidextrous slide launch/takedown levers, a reversible magazine launch, a bladed set off, and a pronounced journal effectively.
Digging a bit deeper, we discover:
A Parker Mountain Machine compensator, made expressly for this pistol. Right here’s one other view, from the highest:
A five-slot rail
That bladed set off, full with brand and squared/checkered set off guard. Notice the undercut on the rear. The takedown lever is above the set off.
Sights are three-dot…
The grip’s brand and texture…
It sticks to your hand, no drawback.
“9mmx19” engraving on the barrel. My left-handedness appreciates the elongated slide launch lever on this facet of the gun. Additionally, there’s little question the place this was made. Notice the exterior extractor.
Specs
Mannequin: 4796036
Caliber: 9mm Luger
Slide Materials: Metal
Body Materials: Polymer
General Size: 8.5in
Width: 1.4in
Top: 5.7in
Barrel Size: 4.6″
Sight Radius: 6.4″
Compensator: Parker Mountain Machine
Magwell: Aluminum
Grip Circumference: 5.8″ (Med Backstrap)
Weight With Empty Journal: 27.4 Oz. (My scale had the gun weighing 22.7 oz. with no journal)
Journal Capability: 20rd
Mags Included: 3, with aluminum basepads
Set off: Dynamic Efficiency Set off
Set off Attain: 2.8″
Set off Pull: 4.5lbs +/- 1lb (Measured pull weight: 4 lbs., 0 oz. Very good!)
Set off Journey: 0.2″
Safeties: 3 – Auto
Msrp: $999 (I’ve seen it for $950, not a lot decrease than that.)
The gun options an optics lower, Walther’s 2.0 model. The two.0 system is appropriate with many widespread purple dot footprints, together with Trijicon RMR, Defend RMSc, and Holosun Ok-series.
The place To Purchase
At The Vary
It’s attending to the purpose the place I shouldn’t sort “How’d the gun shoot?” however as a substitute ought to ask “How badly did I shoot it?”
I admit I’m not the perfect shot within the room, and up to date well being points have introduced that dwelling. So, please take these teams with a grain of salt, because the saying goes…
I shot some 115-grain FMJ masses I had readily available. I want my ammo choice have been extra complete, however I don’t obtain ammo instantly from a producer, in contrast to some reviewers, so I go for what I can get.
At any price, I grabbed some Fiocchi Vary Dynamics, PMC, and Monarch. Monarch surprises me… it’s normally the most cost effective 9mm I can discover, however generally, it’s probably the most correct. I feel it’s made in Russia. Anyway, I shot some five-shot teams at 25 yards. I didn’t “burn the barn down” with tiny teams… You might most likely do higher… however the gun was pleasantly behaved and was a pleasure to shoot. The four-pound set off helped, as did the muzzle compensator.
Listed below are three targets I stored.
Fiocchi Vary Dynamics … nothing to write down dwelling about right here!
PMC – a little bit higher, kind of…
Monarch… the perfect of the bunch. It carried out effectively all through the whole session. I’d stick to this for observe, plus it’s low-cost. I used a middle maintain for all three masses, and it nonetheless shot a bit low, however that may very well be addressed.
The gun was a pure match — the texturing was spot-on and helped glue the pistol in my hand, and the undercut stored my hand larger than it would in any other case have been.
My capturing was helped by utilizing the three equipment proven right here…
I’ve actually grown to love my MTM Case Gard Excessive-Low Capturing Desk, my Athlon Rangecraft Professional radar chronograph, and the Birchwood Casey crammed Vary Bag. All three of those assist. This $160 capturing desk adjusts from 18 to 55 inches… I prefer it “standing up”, as I can seize a gun, a variety bag, and stand there and shoot. This manner, I don’t must set a bench up, with what that entails… It’s lots faster.
The chronograph matches in my pocket, together with its aluminum tripod. I changed my Garmin Xero C1 with this Athlon; it has a number of extra options and might offer you helpful info in a short time. Moreover, it’s appropriate with a smartphone app for additional particulars.
Utilizing this chrono, I arrived on the following figures:
Talking of ammo, I discovered this on the Professional-X’s internet web page:
Ammo Suggestions:
Ammo to keep away from:
Armscor 115
Blazer 115
PMC 115 (this functioned wonderful and was correct sufficient for observe)
Winchester White Field 115
All reloads or remanufactured ammo
Take these suggestions as you’ll.
Take-Down
After we shoot, we clear, proper? Come on, you recognize you must! I’m responsible, too… hmmm… Anyway, it’s fairly easy to take the gun aside, when you don’t depend working across the compensator. Discover I didn’t take it off the barrel. You’ll want to do this if you wish to take away the barrel from the slide.
Compensator Compensation
My analysis revealed that the overall consensus of opinion amongst Professional-X house owners on eradicating the compensator for cleansing is: don’t. It doesn’t merely unscrew like some comps. It isn’t rocket surgical procedure, to coin a phrase, to take it off, however it may be a bit concerned.
From what I’ve learn from house owners on-line, they advocate utilizing a Q-tip and a few Hoppes or different solvent to achieve inside across the feed ramp, and many others. This appears to be the one space or merchandise on this pistol that causes controversy.
Right here’s a discussion board that discusses this subject, if you would like extra details about it. Even contemplating the problem of compensator removing, it’s not sufficient to keep away from shopping for one. I’d wish to have one… It’s a well-behaved gun.
Summing Up
As I discussed upfront, when you’re available in the market for a contest 9, you may wish to give this one a glance. I assessment a variety of pistols… lots… and it’s not that usually that I run throughout one that’s as well-built, as simple to shoot, as well-behaved, as this one.
I assessment some pretty costly weapons – I’ve a $2,500 9mm coming in quickly – so I’ve seen a number of weapons that value considerably greater than this one and but don’t carry out in addition to the Professional-X.
No, I don’t work for Walther, and no, I don’t get to maintain this pistol… It’s simply (as I’ve mentioned a number of instances), very good. I’ll go away it at that.
