Walther P99
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The P99 doesn't get enough credit in the conversations we have at the counter about which guns actually changed things. Glock gets the polymer-striker narrative, but Walther was solving problems Glock didn't even acknowledge.
"The P99 was the first major production pistol to ship with interchangeable backstrap inserts (small, medium, large). This is so ubiquitous today it's easy to forget someone did it first. Walther did it in 1996. The M&P followed in 2005, the P320 in 2014."
Next time someone hands you a P320 at the shop and adjusts the grip size, that feature has a clear origin — and it's almost 30 years old. We just stopped noticing because everybody does it now.
"The P99's most significant innovation is its Anti-Stress (AS) trigger: first shot DA at ~9-10 pounds, subsequent shots SA at ~4-4.5 pounds, with a decock button that returns it to DA mode."
That's a genuinely interesting carry proposition — heavy first shot as a passive safety, lighter splits after that, and a manual decock if you need to stand down. Not how most people run striker guns today, but on a range day you'd feel exactly why someone designed it that way.
For anyone who's handled or carried a P99 — how did you actually find that AS trigger in practice, especially that first-shot DA pull under any kind of pressure?
Read the full article in The Handbook → | By The Boise Gun Club Team
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