Walther’s New PDP Pro SD and PDP Pro SD Compact

Walther just announced some solid upgrades to the PDP duty pistol they released last year, with two new models, the full-sized The PDP Pro SD and the PDP Pro SD Compact. According to Cody, one of the Walther reps at yesterday’s Industry Day at the Range, they spent the last year watching trends in how users modified their PDPs, and from that, they made the upgrades.

Walther PDP Pro SD
The SD stands for Shalldämpfer, the German word for silencer (just google how to pronounce it if you wanna). Sadly, it doesn’t come with a silencer, but you can add one thanks to the new threaded barrel.

So what are the new features? 

  • Threaded barrel
  • Dynamic Performance Trigger
  • Flared aluminum magwell
  • Aluminum base pads on the three included 15-round magazines. *Note: The magwell requires the use of the aluminum base pads. Magazines with the standard polymer base pads will not seat in the magwell.
  • Recoil lugs in the optic-cut slide 
Walther PDP slide next to PDP Pro SD slide which has recoil lugs
Check out the original PDP slide next to the new PDP PRO SD slide. You can see that there are recoil lugs in it now. According to one of the reps at Range Day, statistically, there were no problems with the original. But people wanted recoil lugs, so Walther decided to add them to the new design. 
Walther describes the Dynamic Performance Trigger thusly: A significant reduction in trigger weight, take up, and reset makes this the ultimate striker-fired trigger.
Walther describes the Dynamic Performance Trigger thusly: A significant reduction in trigger weight, take up, and reset makes this the ultimate striker-fired trigger.

The MSRP for these new models is $829, as compared to the MSRP of the standard PDP which is $699. Not a bad deal, considering that you’re getting almost $500 worth of upgrades.

As Walther puts it, the PDP PRO SD models share all the features and innovations that the firearms community loved and embraced about the original Walther PDP models, but with a series of premium factory direct upgrades.

PDP Pro SD, as seen at the Walther booth at SHOT Show 2022.
The new gun is on display at the Walther booth at SHOT Show 2022.

Specs

PDP PRO SD Full-Size

  • Full-Size Frame with a 4.5” slide
  • 5.1” Threaded Barrel
  • Dynamic Performance Trigger
  • Aluminum Magwell
  • 3 x 18 round magazines with Aluminum +0 Base Pads

PDP PRO SD Full-Size (10RD)

  • Full-Size Frame with a 4.5” slide
  • 5.1” Threaded Barrel
  • Dynamic Performance Trigger
  • Aluminum Magwell
  • 3 x 10 round magazines with Aluminum +0 Base Pads

PDP PRO SD Compact

  • Compact frame, with a 4” slide
  • 4.6” Threaded Barrel
  • Dynamic Performance Trigger
  • Aluminum Magwell
  • 3 x 15 round magazines with Aluminum +0 Base Pads

PDP PRO SD Compact (10RD)

  • Compact frame, with a 4” slide
  • 4.6” Threaded Barrel
  • Dynamic Performance Trigger
  • Aluminum Magwell
  • 3 x 10 round magazines with Aluminum +0 Base Pads

Trying to find out more about the PDP Pro SD, we stumbled across these videos from SHOT Show 2022 Industry Day at the Range yesterday. Take a look.

Both guys seem pretty stoked about Walther’s new PDP Pro SDs. And, about the Dynamic Performance Trigger, Steve MP5 (in the video above) says, “I feel like that is a marked difference in trigger. It feels smoother. It feels like the reset isn’t as far…It does feel like it’s a significant upgrade.”

And Chris says, with a smile, “It wants to go fast.”

Stephanie Kimmell is the firstborn daughter of Missouri's Pecan King, worthy scion of a Vietnam veteran sailor turned mad engineer-orchardist-inventor-genius. With a BA in technical writing, she freelances as a writer and editor. A Zymurgist greatly interested in the decoction of fermented barley and hops, she is in many ways a modern amalgam of Esther Hobart Morris, Rebecca Boone, and Nellie Bly. She hunts, fishes, butchers, and cooks most anything. When not editing or writing, she makes soaps and salves, spins wool, and occasionally makes cheese from cows she milked herself. Kimmell is a driven epistemophilic who loves live music and all sorts of beer.

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