LAST EDITED ON Mar-27-02 AT 08:30 AM (EST)
 
>>MAAAAAAAAAAAAAN, that kick total ass! I laughed a bit to loud though
>>when gryphon won 627 000$ at Blackjack with Sakura under his arm(so to
>>speak)as a "good luck charm".
>
>Actually, it was 675,000 pounds sterling, which is just shy of a
>million US dollars. (At the time I wrote the story, the pound was
>stronger; the total then was about $1.1 million.)
>
>>now, what I
>>want to know is, is a Makorov got more stoping power then a PPK? I
>>thought the PPK was stronger.
>
>It's my understanding that they're about the same.

This is largely due to the fact that the Makarov was inspired by (i.e. stole a lot from) the Walther. If anybody cares to read up on it, http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg00-e.htm has a decent write-up on each.

>Keep in mind that
>Bowen's PPK is the proper European model - it's in 7.65mm Browning
>(aka .32 ACP), as opposed to the entirely unsatisfactory mutant .380
>APC "PPK/S" that US import laws have stuck us North Americans with
>since the late 1960s.

Although I haven't shot a PPK/S, I rather like the .380 ACP (9x17mm) caliber... I'm accurate with it :)

-Z

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