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Posted: 3/4/2012 4:43:33 PM EST
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Browning High Power GP Competition owner here.
Absolutely the most accurate 9mm I've ever shot. 6" barrel with weight on the end, Pachmayr grips, adjustable sights, uses standard Hi-Power magazines as well as HP aftermarket mags. Recoil is the lightest of any 9mm I've shot as well. Just a pleasure to shoot, though I try not to shoot it too much owing to its rarity and "senior citizen" status of guns in the Planemaker "collection"*. * I use "collection" loosely here as that would imply some sort of logic in the acquisition process when clearly there was none. 
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Posted: 3/4/2012 4:45:27 PM EST
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I have 3, but I usually carry my HK or Glock.
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Posted: 3/4/2012 5:08:09 PM EST
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It is like a 1911, a CZ75 combo meal. Hi cap plus single action. The best of both worlds. It is also relatively light. Thoughts? Great pistol! Fits the hand well.... points well.... accurate ... reliable.... Proven in combat You can can use it in its utilitarian form, or have it customized and it practically becomes a work of art.... |
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Posted: 3/4/2012 5:15:32 PM EST
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....or have it customized and it practically becomes a work of art.... 
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Posted: 3/4/2012 5:18:31 PM EST
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Posted: 3/4/2012 5:21:11 PM EST
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....or have it customized and it practically becomes a work of art.... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v717/Guevera/e4469301.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v717/Guevera/DSCN0175.jpg pretty, but I'd still rather have a CZ |
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Posted: 3/4/2012 5:22:13 PM EST
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Its a qualit gun but not even close to "best". Shitty, heavy trigger magazine safety relatively soft, small locking lugs prone to problems with steady diets of +P "mushy" safety I've owned one. Nice gun. But it's got its weaknesses As the owner of two of them, one of which is a Special Ops from Novak's, I agree. Bt, they are reliable and do conceal very well. |
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Posted: 3/4/2012 5:28:26 PM EST
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feels like a wet dream in my hand, but i despise the front sight post on my dad's. skinny, ramped, and curved––all bad things for a FSP. if it had a 1911 front sight i would steal the thing without hesitation.
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Posted: 3/4/2012 5:31:08 PM EST
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The BHP was the first handgun I bought.
It is a fine pistol. |
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Posted: 3/4/2012 5:42:05 PM EST
[#10]
It is, in my opiniion, the best handgun in the world.
Some will disagree. If I had only one handgun....BHP. |
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Posted: 3/4/2012 5:47:49 PM EST
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It is an absolute great handgun, and I can shoot one more accurately than any other pistol. I have owned several, including T models, and all were beautiful guns. That being sad, the trigger reset takes some getting used to, mag disconnect (although removable) is a pain, and they can be fickle just like a 1911. They are fantastic "shooting" guns, but not my idea of an ideal carry or combat side arm.
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Posted: 3/4/2012 5:59:14 PM EST
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Not after FN got their hands on it... synthetic POS.
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Posted: 3/4/2012 6:00:44 PM EST
[#13]
Great pistol, shitty reset and no feedback from the thumb safety are it's only real flaws.
Stock trigger is better w/o the mag safety. Sights suck ass except on the later ones, which have the stupid mag safety. |
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Posted: 3/4/2012 6:02:55 PM EST
[#14]
doesn't fit my hand at all. Fits dad's hands perfectly. I'd love to own one if I could shoot it worth a damn.
It's one of my top recommendations for people who can't shoot glocks well. I recommend glocks first because most of my friends are broke and you can get one for 300 used around here. Plus glocks are my favorite. My next pistol will likely be a 1911 since they along with the glock21SF seem to be the only handguns that really "fit". |
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Posted: 3/4/2012 6:06:00 PM EST
[#15]
Wish I still had it.
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Posted: 3/5/2012 5:38:41 AM EST
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I've owned almost every brand of 1911 out there and still love-em. I've owned Glocks and hated-em. I've had CZ's and really liked them other than they seem unecessarily large for the caliber and don't fit my smaller hands. I've owned many BHP's over the years and the best ones have been the later Made in Belgium/Assembled in Portugal versions. The safeties are larger, ambidextrous and much more practical than the classic versions, IMO. I still go back to the BHP as my favorite handgun of all time. There is NOTHING that one can do with another pistol that can't be done with a cocked & locked BHP.
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Posted: 3/5/2012 5:42:24 AM EST
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Quoted: Not after FN got their hands on it... synthetic POS. FN always had their hands on it. |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 5:46:04 AM EST
[#18]
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It is like a 1911, a CZ75 combo meal. Hi cap plus single action. The best of both worlds. It is also relatively light. Thoughts? agree 100% |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 5:48:14 AM EST
[#19]
Sure, in the 70s.
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Posted: 3/5/2012 5:50:02 AM EST
[#20]
My Father was actually issued one in Vietnam. It had been a captured VC weapon and inspected and re-issued as a "substitute standard" along with 500 rounds of 9mm ball ammunition. When my Father left he requested permission to keep it as a war trophy and brought it home. It was the first real hangun I ever held and started my life-long love affair with the Hi-Power design.
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Posted: 3/5/2012 5:55:18 AM EST
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Not after FN got their hands on it... synthetic POS. [>:// FN has always been the producer of genuine "Browning Hi-Power" though there are many licensed and unlicensed versions from others around the World. |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 6:04:54 AM EST
[#22]
Without the mag safety, then yes
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Posted: 3/5/2012 6:17:46 AM EST
[#23]
John Moses Browning himself stated it was the design where he corrected all the problems with the 1911.
I shot one and fit my hand perfectly. |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 6:20:54 AM EST
[#24]
Only thing missing is a rail. Other than that, it's damn near perfect.
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Posted: 3/5/2012 6:32:20 AM EST
[#25]
Hammer bite is hard to fix (need to weld up frame).
Needs and extended safety & better sights. Needs trigger job. Doesn't take +P ammo. Magazine safety. You can get off-the-shelf 1911's now w/o any of the above defects. When FN addresses all of the above, then we'll talk. |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 6:40:58 AM EST
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Make it with an Alloy frame. I know it's probably blasphemy, but I would love it if they made a modernized BHP with a rail and possibly a polymer frame.  
Alloy framed HP. The extra mag is for the .22 conversion. |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 6:43:50 AM EST
[#27]
Classic design. I will buy one when the flow becomes available.
For me, the Holy Grail of BHPs would be a Canadian made Inglis in original condition (standard sights-not the tangent style sights sold to the Chinese). I really like the internal extractor design and it's business-like, no-frills functionality. I could live with the rudimentary sights. |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 6:46:47 AM EST
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Its a qualit gun but not even close to "best". Shitty, heavy trigger magazine safety relatively soft, small locking lugs prone to problems with steady diets of +P "mushy" safety I've owned one. Nice gun. But it's got its weaknesses I've read elsewhere from custom gunsmiths that the metal used in the manufacture of the BHP isn't up to M1911 standards in terms of hardness. I find that strange. |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 6:46:56 AM EST
[#29]
Owned two. One in 9mm and the other in .40. Think they are great, espcially after eliminating the mag disconnect problem. Vast improvement in the trigger pull.
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Posted: 3/5/2012 6:47:57 AM EST
[#30]
Iv never shot one, i always thought they were sort of ugly but i keep hearing rave reviews of them and the cz75.
Looks like i have some more "research" that needs to be done. |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 6:50:52 AM EST
[#31]
They need a few changes before I can use them painlessly. Some of its shortcomings don't really have much of a solution, but it's a decent enough gun for what it is.
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Posted: 3/5/2012 7:24:40 AM EST
[#32]
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Not after FN got their hands on it... synthetic POS. 
The design of the Hi power was initiated by JMB under contract for FN, and completed by the guy who designed the FAL. In other words, the Hi Power has ALWAYS been an FN pistol. And, with the exception of an oddball South African made polymer frame, they have never been "synthetic." |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 7:25:39 AM EST
[#33]
Bet 9mm I've ever shot, very accurate
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Posted: 3/5/2012 7:29:31 AM EST
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I like it except for the magazine safety which makes for a crappy 3rd world trigger. What magazine safety? I lold. |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 7:29:41 AM EST
[#35]
Quoted: John Moses Browning himself stated it was the design where he corrected all the problems with the 1911. I shot one and fit my hand perfectly. can you point to me where he said that? |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 7:31:49 AM EST
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Fits my hand beautifully, but I've never had the chance to shoot with one. For the life of me, I can't hit anything past 15 yards with a 1911. I can drive nails with the BHP though. Must have been a Springfield to POS Traded mine in for a baby eagle and 100 bucks worth of nine |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 7:37:24 AM EST
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Only thing missing is a rail. Other than that, it's damn near perfect. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile 
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Posted: 3/5/2012 7:38:43 AM EST
[#38]
Love mine, I prefer it to the 1911.
Getting a lot of use out of this photo. 
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Posted: 3/5/2012 7:46:40 AM EST
[#39]
Hands down my favorite handgun. I own 7 of them.(in various trims)
Not the best combat pistol Imo but one of the nicest. Some of the complaints in the previous posts can be addressed with a little extra money and effort. |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 8:00:59 AM EST
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I know it's probably blasphemy, but I would love it if they made a modernized BHP with a rail and possibly a polymer frame. A polymer frame but no rail. http://www.hipowersandhandguns.com/Polymer%20Frame.htm |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 8:51:24 AM EST
[#41]
Quoted: Love mine, I prefer it to the 1911. Getting a lot of use out of this photo. http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b367/thunderw21/more%20stuff/pics/Hipower001-1.jpg If they changed all the rules and I could buy any pistol I wanted, that one is the very top of the list. |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 9:08:08 AM EST
[#42]
I had one but had to sell it. With my grip I would invariably either:
A. hit the slide stop causing it to engage when I didn't want it to in the middle of shooting, locking the slide back B. hold the slide stop down causing the slide to not lock back on an empty mag I realize this is more an issue of how I hold the gun rather than the gun itself. That said I have not had this problem with any of the MANY other types of pistols I've used. I'm not willing to adapt my grip from what I do with every gun for only one type. Does this happen to anyone else? |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 9:08:58 AM EST
[#43]
No. Top ten, sure. But not the best. Stock trigger is nothing special, accuracy is decent but hardly world class. Steel tends to be on the soft side.
And yes, I own one. I like well enough, but it's not the first thing I pull out of the safe. |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 9:32:38 AM EST
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The BHP was the first handgun I bought. It is a fine pistol. Same here. |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 9:34:02 AM EST
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The "best"?
I don´t know. But it´s my # 1 "Go to" gun. I had 5, sold # 4. # 1 is early 1942 "Pistole 640(b)", complete rig - Pistol, Holster and two mags - got it from a Na** Family 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_Hi-Power # 2 is a mint NIB "T Series" - not touched, only rarely shot # 3 is an Ex Austrian Police HP, converted by somebody to a Match Pistol. I use it as a Match Pistol. SWEET trigger! # 4 sold # 5 is MY GUN! Mark III, cast ( read : "40 cal " frame ), Competition model, two tone. Wolff springs throughout, Mag safe removed, Seidler trigger job, Esmeralda Cocobolo grips ( GORGEOUS!!! ). I have nearly tons of mags, but bought MecGar nickeled ones especially for this pistol. And, as holsters get hard to get, get yours!! Mine: Rafter L gunleather, the version with the leather preventing skirt or skin stained or hurt. I like mine. I would trust my Life to it. YMMV. Hermann |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 9:40:20 AM EST
[#46]
I'd rather have DA/SA. I'd rather have no hammer bite. I'd rather have no mag safety.
The CZ's I've shot have tended to have better triggers than the HP's I've shot, but my sample set is piss poor, just a few of each. |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 9:53:27 AM EST
[#47]
I like the OP's description but will stick with my CZ75
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Posted: 3/5/2012 10:19:05 AM EST
[#48]
No it is not the best but it is good. I would take a CZ75 all day every day over a Hipower.
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Posted: 3/5/2012 12:04:44 PM EST
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The design of the Hi power was initiated by JMB under contract for FN, and completed by the guy who designed the FAL. In other words, the Hi Power has ALWAYS been an FN pistol. And, with the exception of an oddball South African made polymer frame, they have never been "synthetic." Sorry, I'm talking about these later model FN's. You are right it's not all synthetic being made of cast something or other... but it's still junk. Stick with the earlier ones. 
The trigger is a plasticky piece of crap. Pull it. It even sounds plasticky and won't 'catch' unless it's fully released. Never had anything like it and that's why I sold it. |
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Posted: 3/5/2012 12:10:17 PM EST
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The design of the Hi power was initiated by JMB under contract for FN, and completed by the guy who designed the FAL. In other words, the Hi Power has ALWAYS been an FN pistol. And, with the exception of an oddball South African made polymer frame, they have never been "synthetic." Sorry, I'm talking about these later model FN's. You are right it's not all synthetic being made of cast something or other... but it's still junk. Stick with the earlier ones. http://pics.gunbroker.com/GB/276136000/276136903/pix924199867.jpg The trigger is a plasticky piece of crap. Pull it. It even sounds plasticky and won't 'catch' unless it's fully released. Never had anything like it and that's why I sold it. That looks absolutely nothing like the BHP's currently in my local gunshop. 
What's with the bobbed hammer? |
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