The Unofficial P64 Resource Forum

Already got a PA63

Since I was born in 1964, the origional issue date of the P-64, I think it would be neat to have an actual 1964 stamped pistol.

Mine is stamped 1973, anyone have a 1964 stamped pistol?

Do you think that hand select places would select by date stamp?

Johnny C

Other than wearing a glove or getting a set of beavertail grips, what have folks done to alleviate the pinching? I have large hands with loose web skin, and it just gets in there! I was thinking of maybe doing a semi bob on the hammer and rounding off the hammer trench on the back. Also I notice tha...

Seems like there arent many/any sight options out there. I was thinking about removing the rear sight, milling the rear "hump" channel wider and installing a fiber optic tube into it. With some practice, the indexing of the front and rear sights takes care of itself, so having a single bri...

Ok, Thanks

I was wondering if my PPK/S would handle the 9X18 if I had the chamber reamed and upped the poundage on the recoil spring. Has anyone ever done this? My stainless PPK seems to be at least as beefy as most of the eastern block pistols I have seen. I know...why?, I was just thinking of consolidating c...

Is there a listing somewhere of all the firearms that chamber the 9X18, and what is the smallest one?

Thanks,

Johnny C

Yo New fellow here, though I have lurked for the last few years since buying a PA63 I thought it was a decent gun for the 100$ I paid for it, but the PA63 quality pales in comparison to the P64 I just picked up....especially the extractor, looks like they filed it out of a piece of scrap on the 63. ...