@ Shoestring, you're welcome. To me, the surprise has been how well these older guns have done. Although one and all have inferior sights to what we are used to on modern guns, they are certainly useable out to 10 yards at least, and in some cases even further. I would carry either the Walther, The Colt (still my favorite) or the FN 1922 and feel well armed. I wouldn't feel too bad if all I had was an FN 1910, a CZ-27 or a Savage. In fact, I have carried the Colt and the FN a few times this summer. The only real losers have been the Beretta 1935 (sorry, Outpost) and the H&R, and I think the H&R might have been better back about 90 years ago.
@Robert. The 32 Walther PP is a much more user friendly pistol than the 380 PPK/s I had. The 380 had a surprisingly sharp recoil for a relatively weak cartridge. I have not had much trouble with slide bite: my hands, while size large, are not beefy. The PP balances and fits me better, and the longer recoil spring coupled with the lighter recoiling cartridge seems to abate recoil. I would like to try a 380 PP sometime. I had a 32 PPK back in the late 70's which was very accurate for a small gun but I didn't shoot it enough to have any real remembrance of it. I would like to find a stainless PPK in 32 just for funsies. I know that S&W made a few a few, but I have never seen one that I could buy.
Oh, and the thickness of my Walther PP is ~1 3/16", not 1 13/16" due primarily to the checkered, wood, grip panels, which add about an 1/8th of an inch to the grip over the more common black, plastic ones.