What are the facts about Walther?

[Barryg]

Just for the record, Alistair.

Early LGV Pistons were threaded and screwed together like a TX.

Later LGV and LGU pistons have a cross pin holding them together like a 77.


Fact !





All the best Mick

I wonder Mick if there has ever been any TX pistons come unscrewed like the early lgv? and didn't they have to change the lgv piston twice.

[Rapidnick]

Perhaps they spent more on advertising than the gun, remember this

https://youtu.be/bSgMpAQBddY

Just seen this. Fancy a gun maker showing pictures of a rifle with the barrel unlatched and not being held. Tut tut.
I wish some of my fellow club members looked like those ladies though. Pretty girls, champagne, sushi and a Walther LGV-what more could one want?

[mallyally]

From one extreme to another

The Pig shed review anyone ?
https://youtu.be/f3lZ5DzObB8

[Hsing-ee]

From one extreme to another

The Pig shed review anyone ?
https://youtu.be/f3lZ5DzObB8

Pigs are very sensitive and it's clear that they don't like the Walther AT ALL.

I don't understand the rationale behind shooting a three-shot group. A twenty shot group is the proper test for a rifle. It is amazingly accurate if that is what it can do over a longer series.

[T 20]

I wonder Mick if there has ever been any TX pistons come unscrewed like the early lgv? and didn't they have to change the lgv piston twice.

It could happen with a TX piston but I don't recall reading of any that have unscrewed.

As far as I know the LGV piston has only changed once, the early piston rods unscrewed due to a lack of Loctite, Jim Tyler reported this to Walther and they rectified the problem.

The later type piston is much simplified in construction by simply using a cross pin to hold the skirt, rod and head together.

I wouldn't be overly concerned if I owned an early LGV as the piston could easily be checked during service and either re-Loctited or retrofitted with the later piston --- the later piston is available in a service kit along with new guide, new spring and two tubs of grease and all for £25.



All the best Mick

[Barryg]

I think that I have solved the walther ownership or have I it looks like the PW group, am I wrong look at this pic

http://imgur.com/NSb0xSg

[bighit]

I think that I have solved the walther ownership or have I it looks like the PW group, am I wrong look at this pic

http://imgur.com/NSb0xSg

http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/tag/pw-group/


Walther has decided to handle the marketing, distribution, sales, and servicing of its firearms in the USA through the newly-formed Walther Arms Inc., a subsidiary of the PW Group of Arnsberg, Germany. (PW owns both CARL WALTHER GmbH Sportwaffen and Umarex.)


1993 the Walther firm was acquired by UMAREX Sportwaffen (now part of PW Group) of Arnsberg, Germany who continued to manufacture under the Walther name in Ulm and Arnsberg. The German Walther company is known as Carl Walther Sportwaffen. In 1999 the US based Smith & Wesson company became the authorized importer for Walther Firearms. [6]
Two of the divisions of the PW Group, Carl Walther Sportwaffen and UMAREX Sportwaffen formed a new US company named Walther Arms, Inc. located in Fort Smith, AR, USA. in 2012. The distribution of Walther arms in the United States was taken over by this new company on January 1, 2013. [7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Walther_GMBH


http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/201...wesson-mostly/


The United States subsidiary of Umarex is called Umarex USA and was created in 2006 after acquiring the United States marketers of the RWS brand (formerly part of Dynamit Nobel), which they continue to market

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umarex