Great run down on FN's new Browning Hi-power

[elsie]

Yer bad! Can you imagine the owners manual?(insert slideshow here)

Joe

It would be done by the same people who do the Ikea assembly sheets.


elsie

 

[P7M13]

Saw a Girsan MC P35 today. $469.
Looks good, asked to see it. Fit and finish was good. Had some after-market wood grips that made it sexy.
Big problem -- where my FN Hi Power was a natural pointing gun, the Girsan came up low in every pull-up to aim cycle. It was odd. Passed.

 

[Jason200911]

Saw a Girsan MC P35 today. $469.
Looks good, asked to see it. Fit and finish was good. Had some after-market wood grips that made it sexy.
Big problem -- where my FN Hi Power was a natural pointing gun, the Girsan came up low in every pull-up to aim cycle. It was odd. Passed.

What store has them? They're out of stock everywhere in the country

 

[Rkangel]

Oh look... Hollywood is churning out yet another Spiderman and Lord of the Rings remake. Sorry... What were we talking about?

 

[Certaindeaf]

Oh look... Hollywood is churning out yet another Spiderman and Lord of the Rings remake. Sorry... What were we talking about?

Oh now.

 

[Rkangel]

Oh now.

Just playing.

The high power has been cloned and copied for decades. It just seems that the gun industry is in the "remake and reimagine" phase of nostalgia bandwagon marketing.

 

[cigars]

Who will be next?

Hi-Point....

 

[ma96782]

Sorry.....I don't really need another Browning Hi-Power.

Yeah......as if anyone could actually have enough guns?

Well......since I'm paying for it? BUT, But, but....... IF someone were to give me one for free? Sure. And, I'd even spring for the transfer fee. LOL.

Aloha, Mark

 

[P7M13]

What store has them? They're out of stock everywhere in the country

That was in CdA

 

[Jason999]

I'll stick with my old Hi Power, it's a parts gun but has never jammed or failed me in any way. It's hard to improve on perfection.

Well... exept if it was in .45acp of course.

 

[No_Regerts]

The new gun is a "High Power". Not a Hi Power. They are different guns and it sucks that FN is trying to use a play on words to hide that.

 

[spookshack]

I wonder if they'll be assembled in Portugal. That'd suck dong.

Yeah, China is where it's at baby!

 

[tac]

The new gun is a "High Power". Not a Hi Power. They are different guns and it sucks that FN is trying to use a play on words to hide that.

Of course you know that the GP in GP35 is French for 'grande puissance' - 'high power' in English.

 

[spookshack]

Not a fan of the new Hi-Power, but I'd take it over this FN in a heartbeat!

FN HiPer® - FN HERSTAL

New innovative 9x19 mm pistol combining the highest levels of ergonomics, performance, reliability and safety

fnherstal.com

 

[Certaindeaf]

Yeah, China is where it's at baby!

Wong!

 

[No_Regerts]

Of course you know that the GP in GP35 is French for 'grande puissance' - 'high power' in English.

There is a different reason they're not calling it a Hi Power. It's because its not a Hi Power. The frame is different. The controls look similar, but are different. The barrel lockup is different. They kept just enough esthetic similarity to put a name on it that would ride the coat tails of the original.

It would be like FN introducing the Model 70 as the Model Seven-T and making it a push-feed with a plastic trigger guard and a floating recoil lug.

 

[JeremyK]

You all simply lying to yourselves. Just get a Glock 17.

 

[gsparesa]

I have decided that I'm not going to buy one unless it comes in plastic and sports a RDO. I have enough old guns and I need to embrace new technology before I become fertilizer.