Any Hi-Power shooters out there?

[jwood1284]

My 2010 MKIII is one of my favorite handguns. It doesn’t have the greatest trigger, the magazine disconnect is annoying, but it runs hard and handles like an extension of your arm. I’ve never had the urge to modify it in any way, and have embraced its old-world charm.

 

[93marlin]

FYI, Is an afterthought when it was made part of the Browning High-power.
Fairly easy to delete.
Terrific handguns, when tuned they are among the best!!

 

[Flbt]

My 2010 MKIII is one of my favorite handguns. It doesn’t have the greatest trigger, the magazine disconnect is annoying, but it runs hard and handles like an extension of your arm. I’ve never had the urge to modify it in any way, and have embraced its old-world charm.

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I had the 40 version for awhile.
And had a feg copy of the 9

 

[BryceM]

I inherited my dad’s 9mm pistol. He carried it on countless dirtbike rides, hikes, and adventures. He put untold quantities of ammo through it. When I got it, it didn’t feed well at all. He had mostly given up on it at a certain point and it sat unused for many years. A good cleaning didn’t help.

I found a spring kit and replaced all of them. There’s 8 or 10 of them. It took a minute, but now the pistol shoots like a dream. It has a second life now as my favorite (slightly large) carry piece.

 

[odonata]

I use the Springfield Armory SA-35 clone as my general purpose field gun at the hunting camp. It’s a nice dependable pistol.

 

[jwood1284]

FYI, Is an afterthought when it was made part of the Browning High-power.
Fairly easy to delete.
Terrific handguns, when tuned they are among the best!!

The MKIII is a little more difficult than the rest requiring removal of the very stubborn trigger pin. I might send it off for a trigger job one day.

 

[275r7x57]

The Springfield SA-35 is the best production HI-Power. Everything you need and nothing you don’t.

Novak HI-Power’s can’t be beat.

Novak Classic Custom BHP

Novak'sCustom BHP Classic Custom Package Page

www.novaksinc.com

 

[Sarg]

I love the Hi-Power, I have two, one an old War horse that I carry ever day in the Velt & the other a overly flashy one I ended up with I’m a trade deal.

The other Guides & people in general make fun of its old age & lesser capacity but time & again it saves every ones bacon, while they miss or carry less rounds as their Choices are too heavy for them fully loaded. !

 

[Green Chile]

Nice to see some HPs in the field. My favorite HPs are those massaged by Novak or Nighthawk. I get hammer bite by the unmodified guns due to my high grip.

 

[baxterb]

Yes. It was the first pistol I bought when I was legally able. My only gripe is that it has the adjustable high-mount sights, and is not practiocal to carry. I need to have some low mount, fixed sights installed.

 

[mdwest]

Being a lefty, a traditional unmodified HP isn’t very user friendly for me…

I did however carry one during the very early part of the Iraq war (early 2004) as they were the only pistols of any quality thst we could get off the local economy initially..

By late 2004 we managed to get our hands on a handful of Glock 17’s, so I swapped out and went with the Glock..

They said, the HP I carried was an extremely well made Belgian FN… far better quality than the shit box Egyptian Tabuk AK that I carried alongside it initially..

 

[Flbt]

I love the Hi-Power, I have two, one an old War horse that I carry ever day in the Velt & the other a overly flashy one I ended up with I’m a trade deal.

The other Guides & people in general make fun of its old age & lesser capacity but time & again it saves every ones bacon, while they miss or carry less rounds as their Choices are too heavy for them fully loaded. !

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That’s a nice bbq gun

 

[Datchew]

Hi power lover here
Never lost my love for an ergonomic full size sao

Rarely carry my mk3 in ,40 due to weight. my g19 and sig 365 bring about half the weight, but the bhp is still my fav.

 

[Wyatt Smith]

I have a surplus Mk2. I like it and shoot it well.
It never gets carried as I prefer sixguns.

 

[Velo Dog]

Fellow Pistoleros,

Since I first became interested enough in firearms to research various ones, the Browning P-35, Aka: “Hi-Power” has continuously been a favorite of mine.
I’m so old now that when I was turning 18 (1971), a brand new unfired, P-35 cost $134.95 (USA Dollars and Cents).

If an equally brand new Colt 1911 .45 did not cost exactly $10. dollars less at that time, I might have bought the Hi-Power instead.
Otherwise it would have been a very difficult choice for a beginning “gun nut”.

I bought the .45 and wished I could’ve afforded both.
At that time, I was a senior in High School and night shift cook in an open-all-night fast food restaurant, Sacramento, California.
Because I was under 21, my father went into the sporting goods store and bought the Colt for me.
I paid him back in cash, when he sat down in the car and handed me the new Colt + a box of 50 cartridges.

That is known in the USA as a “Straw Man Purchase” and now days people go to jail for it.
Back then it was more than likely also unlawful but you just didn’t hear of it being enforced in 1971.

In my early to mid 30’s, I finally bought a used but apparently unfired Hi-Power.
It is the variation that Browning calls their “Silver Chrome” Model Hi-Power.
I had been hoping to find a blue one in .30 Luger caliber but ended up settling for the standard 9MM caliber, due to it being in front of my nose at a moment when I could afford it.
It’s still with me + a sack full of magazines by various makers.

This good old Browning of mine has always been reliable and accurate.
Today it remains one of my favorite handgun designs, world wide.

Although it is not my first choice for bad guy repellant, nonetheless I believe it’d be a sad day para Los Cholos, if my Browning was handy to me when they showed up.

The picture attached below is my good old Irish Terrier, Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, with my mid-1980’s vintage hard chromed Browning, a favorite of his as well as mine.
He succumbed to a brain tumor a couple years ago and now is chasing rabbits across the sky.

Anyway ya, the Browning P-35 Hi-Power, it could’ve been a shade better with a 5” barrel & slide (longer sight radius and a whisker more muzzle weight).
Nonetheless, in the old dog’s opinion, it shall forever be one of the finest designed auto pistols of all time.

Life is too short to mess around with poorly made guns.

Cheers,
Velo Dog.

 

[Velo Dog]

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[Frederik]

I just love my Hi-Power its eats anything running 147gr lead coated bullets at the moment which hits the steel harder when it needs to topple them.

Got it ceracoated last year and it came out really nice, me thinks.

 

[cash_tx]

I've always loved the look and feel of the Hi-Powers, but have yet to actually own one. A few months back i picked up a 1993 Browning BDM at a good price from Cabelas that got me kind of in the ballpark, but will probably pick up a Springfield SA-35 when the right opportunity arises.

 

[Odinsraven]

Have quite a few of them - well - a lot - well - OK OK amazing guns my favorite 2 are the MI5(British Military intelligence) E series - and the Kareen Hi-Power which can shoot high-pressure ammo. FEG-manufactured ones are very nice at an affordable price.

 

[Odinsraven]

I inherited my dad’s 9mm pistol. He carried it on countless dirtbike rides, hikes, and adventures. He put untold quantities of ammo through it. When I got it, it didn’t feed well at all. He had mostly given up on it at a certain point and it sat unused for many years. A good cleaning didn’t help.

I found a spring kit and replaced all of them. There’s 8 or 10 of them. It took a minute, but now the pistol shoots like a dream. It has a second life now as my favorite (slightly large) carry piece.

Clean lube springs - gets 70 percent of handguns working !