Walther PDP Match Full Size 5"

 The Walther PDP Match Full Size 5” is a well-designed firearm that boasts an excellent and consistent performance. It has a 5” (127 mm) barrel with polygonal rifling, which makes for an accurate full-size Walther Performance Duty Pistol. There’s a three-dots sight system on top of the slide that can be used to aim with accuracy. The white dots will remain clearly visible, even in low-light environments. And if you do prefer a red dot, the Walther PDP Match Full Size 5” has you covered as well. The slide is Optics-Ready, meaning there’s a removable plate towards the rear end of the slide. Once you’ve taken that plate off, you can easily replace it with a mounting base for your favourite red dot.

The Walther PDP Match Full Size 5” shoots semi-automatically and it features a so-called Dynamic Performance Trigger. That trigger is one of Walther’s very best. It’s made of impact-resistant aluminium and it has a flat trigger-blade with a built-in trigger safety. The trigger is tuned incredibly crisply and it has a shortened take-up, short over-travel and a very short reset. This firearm uses a striker-fired system, which means pulling the trigger directly manipulates the striker pin, further contributing to the system’s fast reaction time.

The slide has diagonal Superterrain grooves along both sides, which allow you to grab it firmly. Those grooves provide more than enough grip, even if it’s pouring or when you’re wearing gloves. The front grooves are milled open to reduce the pistol’s overall weight -so it retains its fine balance- and it allows the barrel to cool down faster. That faster cool-down will absolutely come in handy if you’re rapidly firing successive shots.

The grip has a rough texture on both sides that continues along the front and back of the grip. All those textured surfaces amount to a firm grip on the Walther PDP Match Full Size 5” at all times. The beavertail frames the top of your hand and the extended aluminium magwell does the same for the bottom of your hand.

The magazine pin is located on the left side of the frame out of the box, but it can easily be reversed. There’s a short Weaver/Picatinny accessory rail on the bottom of the fore-end, which can be used to mount a flashlight or a laser.