Walther p99 AS vs QA
I'm probably going to buy a P99 because of the mag release which is easy for my small hands to use. My question is which model to get, the AS or the QA. I'm not sure what the practical difference is between the two models. I know AS is anti stress, and QA is quick action, but beyond that I'm not sure if one is double action only, etc, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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QA is kind of Glockish. A long mushy but not extremely heavy pull consistent for all shots from first to last.
AS has several states of readiness, the most useful would be decocked into a DA - SA type of operation.
There is also a DAO with long heavy pull.0 -
Thanks Hawk! 0 -
I'm patial to my SA P-99. The trigger is much better than the QA. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by dcs shooters
I'm patial to my SA P-99. The trigger is much better than the QA.
I agree with that.
QA is basically only if you don't want a gun with a DA pull at all, and prefer the Glock style of every pull the same. Lots of people don't like a DA-type gun with different first trigger pull, and the QA is a potential answer to that issue.
That said, the DA trigger pull on the AS model is excellent for a semiauto pistol being both smooth and relatively light. The SA pull isn't quite match grade, but its also relatively light and not only better than a Glock, but actually better than many semi-auto pistols.
The "anti-stress" feature is a little difficult to describe.
Its sort of a trigger activated safety. When it is engaged (and I believe it does so automatically if you manually cock the gun by partially retracting the slide), the trigger springs all the way forward.
To disengage the safety, you just pull the trigger. When it goes back, you feel it click into place, and then you are OK for ordinary single-action semiauto use.
In other words, in "anti-stress" mode, carry is sort of like carrying cocked and locked, only the "lock" is "unlocked" by pulling the trigger back 3/4 of the way, (instead of a separate thumb safety). Its a way of being cocked and locked without a separate external safety. . .pretty clever, actually.
The feel of the anti-stress trigger disengaging is quite distinct, and it disengages quite a bit before the gun will discharge, so you will NOT accidentally discharge the gun when deactivating the AS feature.
The point of the thing is that if your finger is on the trigger and you are startled (with a loud noise) you may reflexively clench your hand and pull the trigger. Yes, you aren't supposed to point your gun at anything you aren't willing to shoot, but in the real world, not everyone follows all these safety rules all the time, and "startle" discharges do happen.
The anti-stress trigger is a way of preventing this sort of accidental discharge. If you are startled by stress and pull by accident, you'll just disengage the trigger safety, rather than shoot the gun. If you do need to shoot, doing so is intuitive. . .you just pull the trigger and you shoot.
The anti-stress feature is automatically disengaged when you decock the gun manually (into DA mode).
I'm not sure why you would want to carry the gun cocked with the AS feature deactivated (though people effectively carry Glocks this way all the time), but if you did want to do so, all you need to do is partially pull the trigger to disengage it.
In other words, if you don't like the AS feature, you don't have to use it.
Personally, I don't. I rarely carry this, but when I do, I use it like a conventional SA/DA, being decocked for carry with a DA first shot.0 -
The AS has it's points... the main being DA, and able to fire from the decocked position... rare in a striker. The QA though is as fine a single pull striker trigger made. I could shoot the QA faster for some reason. Either trigger will serve as the gun it's attached to is excellent. 0
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