The Browning Hi-Power

[clambo]

Id have sold my wife and bought both the Hipower AND the dog. I love my dog more than I do most people.

 

[SinisterSouthpaw]

An aphorism sometimes attributed to Mark Twain: "The longer I am around people the more I like dogs....."
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.........but I think it was said by someone else--maybe Howlin' Mad Smith , but no, he mostly said @#!^&@#^!!!

 

[Certaindeaf]

The Moses must've liked dogs. A Citori or even one of his many, many .22's "speaks" (lol) dogs. they go hand in hand

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Sold this one to buy my friend [dog]. The High Power was nice. The dog is one in a million. Look at his little face! Dam Dog.
The HP trigger and I didn't get along. The safety has a different feel than a 1911. And there is no squeeze safety. So carrying cocked and locked was out for me. Others are fine with it.
I won't get another. But is was a beautiful gun! The bluing was the nicest I've seen on an auto pistol.

Just so everyone knows, JMB thought the 1911 grip safety superfluous and only designed the 1911 that way for an army spec contract for horse cavalry

 

[Certaindeaf]

I think the original "1911's" had no "safeties" whatsoever, save the hammer and trigger.

 

[oli700]

one fine thread here, never owned a Hipower but I appreciate it and really enjoy a pistol that has borrowed heavily from Browning in the CZ75 and all its variants

I love my dog more than I do most people.

quoted for the truth

I would die for my wolf boy

 

[coop44]

excellent ergonomics, half the parts of a 1911, high capacity (designed as an improvement on the 1911). Designed by a man who is an Edison of the firearms world (how many patents? A bunch!). Not a one hit wonder like Gaston Glock, (JMB gave up on striker fired guns about a hundred years ago). Plastic does not make a gun "Modern". What gun show/gun shop pimp told you that? Most of the designs in them date back to (or are derived from)JMB designs. You can't fix plastic. Not much new has come along in the last 100 years.

I would take one into a situation any day, the only drawback is the caliber.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

RIP Clovis, until Rainbow Bridge

 

[oli700]

excellent ergonomics, half the parts of a 1911, high capacity (designed as an improvement on the 1911). Designed by a man who is an Edison of the firearms world (how many patents? A bunch!). Not a one hit wonder like Gaston Glock, (JMB gave up on striker fired guns about a hundred years ago). Plastic does not make a gun "Modern". What gun show/gun shop pimp told you that? Most of the designs in them date back to (or are derived from)JMB designs. You can't fix plastic. Not much new has come along in the last 100 years.

I would take one into a situation and day, the only drawback is the caliber.

well then it wouldn't be high capacity designed as an improvement on the 1911 as you have pointed out......place them well and caliber matters little. Long live the mighty 9x19 mm

 

[Certaindeaf]

.a man who is an Edison of the firearms world (how many patents? A bunch!). Not a one hit wonder like Gaston Glock, (JMB gave up on striker fired guns about a hundred years ago). Plastic does not make a gun "Modern"..

You gots that right..

http://weaponsman.com/?p=10789



When someone called him/introduced him as an "engineer" he snapped "I'm a machinist".

 

[Martini_Up]

Not quite 2 pounds but it's what I got.





and maybe we can call it low power

 

[Certaindeaf]

One of my very favorites.. especially in .380. Elegant.. just about perfect for the caliber. I don't think they (or at least the early ones) are drop safe in condition one though.

 

[Dusky]

Here is one of mine a 75C.

 

[coop44]

well then it wouldn't be high capacity designed as an improvement on the 1911 as you have pointed out......place them well and caliber matters little. Long live the mighty 9x19 mm

no mass, 9mm sucks

 

[Blitzkrieg]

well then it wouldn't be high capacity designed as an improvement on the 1911 as you have pointed out......place them well and caliber matters little. Long live the mighty 9x19 mm

I get a good laugh at people who knock the 9MM. I gained the handle "Machine Gun" at an indoor range in cali long ago for the rate of accurate fire I could lay down with a BHP. No one in their right mind would want to stand in front of that, especially with my Sierra Power Jacket HP handloads

 

[Martini_Up]

no mass, 9mm sucks

Yup. Everything short of a 20 mmm round sucks. Funny though, nobody wants to get hit in the melon or blood pumper with 9mm or anything else just in case it really is shot placement and not mass (caliber)

 

[Blitzkrieg]

You gots that right..

http://weaponsman.com/?p=10789



When someone called him/introduced him as an "engineer" he snapped "I'm a machinist".

He's rightly been called a wizard

 

[Certaindeaf]

Here is one of mine a 75C.

That's the nicest tangent sighted Hi-Power I've ever seen.
I used to have a beat to heck Inglis but really didn't like the sights.

 

[Certaindeaf]

no mass, 9mm sucks

500 fpe with each hammer fall don't suck at all, pard.

 

[coop44]

Check statistics from the battle of Gettysburg, 8 pound cannon balls work well. No velocity to speak of (400-600 fps iirc), no hollow points, mass rules. Biggest reason I stick with 15 rounds of 45 caliber 230 grain fmj ammo. If I could get heavier affordable bullets, I would.