{"id":778,"date":"2015-12-18T13:58:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T21:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/?p=778"},"modified":"2015-12-18T14:18:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T22:18:33","slug":"walther-ppq-beta-magwells-available-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"Walther PPQ &#8220;Beta&#8221; Magwells Available Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-779 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Walther-magwellA7web-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"Walther magwellA7web\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Walther-magwellA7web-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Walther-magwellA7web.jpg 432w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/158;\" \/>We&#8217;ve just released our first <a href=\"http:\/\/taylorfreelance.com\/shopping\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=24&amp;products_id=125\">&#8220;beta&#8221; magwell for the Walther PPQ<\/a>. Our plan is to produce them in stainless\/bronze the way we do the HK P30\/VP9 magwell, but right now we need your\u00a0feedback to choose the right design. Currently\u00a0we&#8217;re on version\u00a0A7, which includes some improved funnel characteristics, but still works with a modified stock basepad if need be. It&#8217;s designed to work with\u00a0our <a href=\"http:\/\/taylorfreelance.com\/shopping\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=24&amp;products_id=126\">&#8220;Beta&#8221; basepads<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; which we suggest using &#8212; until our machined aluminum production-legal +0 and USPSA-legal 140mm +6&#8217;s hit the street in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>We had different versions of this set\u00a0out for people to play with at the recent Taylor Freelance &#8220;open shop&#8221; event. We chose this release based on what our local crop of master shooters preferred (notably Hwansik Kim, Greg Purcell, and Jordon Castro).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got a PPQ, you know the frame is a little on the short side (like the famed Glock 19). By adding this magwell, you extend the frame enough to let\u00a0you hold the frame solidly with the pinky finger of your support hand &#8212; the one that can exercise the most leverage. For many of the people that have tried this in the last few weeks, their immediate reaction was: &#8220;Oh yeah. That&#8217;s a lot better!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just released our first &#8220;beta&#8221; magwell for the Walther PPQ. Our plan is to produce them in stainless\/bronze the way we do the HK P30\/VP9 magwell, but right now we need your\u00a0feedback to choose the right design. Currently\u00a0we&#8217;re on version\u00a0A7, which includes some improved funnel characteristics, but still works with a modified stock basepad\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/?p=778\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walther-ppq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taylorfreelance.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}