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Posted: 5/14/2014 9:40:55 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/14/2014 9:48:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryI never quite grasped the concept of putting a pistol on a leash. |
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Posted: 5/14/2014 10:29:57 AM EDT
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The Canadians still use them in AFG. I was pretty happy to see that. Awesome pistol. Yep, and they're WWII-manufacture Inglis pistols, just like mine. |
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Posted: 5/14/2014 10:35:25 AM EDT
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Duck You Sucker.........wildly underrated and unknown movie. If you have large hands like I do the Hi Power will draw blood with a nasty hammer bite. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Duck You Sucker.........wildly underrated and unknown movie. If you have large hands like I do the Hi Power will draw blood with a nasty hammer bite. It can bite small hands as well. 
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Posted: 5/14/2014 10:46:11 AM EDT
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Since we're doing pichers:
The ultimate combat version of the Hi-Power, as imagined by the genius Don Williams. This pistol started life as a stock .40 S&W Hi-Power. Don added Novak tritiumm sights, the Safety Fast Shooting fire control group, stippled the front and rear of the grip, milled new front slide serrations, hand fit the frame and slide, did a trigger job, hand-fit a .357 Sig barrel to go with the original .40 barrel, fit Navridex grips, and refinished the pistol in the Birdsong Black T finish. This pistol is *perfect* for just about any social use, with a smooth and crisp trigger. I love it so much that I'm sending one of my alloy-framed 9mm Hi-Powers to him to fit the same way. ETA: Hi-Power owners who suffer from hammer bite can fix the problem quite easily (and dramatically improve their trigger) by installing the SFS fire control group. Cylinder and Slide offers the system, which allows for carrying "hammer down" on a loaded chamber. With the SFS system installed, a round is chambered as normal, and then the hammer is pushed toward the firing pin, where it rests in a sort of half-cock position, and the safety rises to the up position. When the safety is flicked down, the hammer returns to the cocked position, and the gun operates normally. I have the SFS on two of my Hi-Powers, and the improvement in the trigger feel (weight and let off) was remarkable. |
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Posted: 5/14/2014 10:51:04 AM EDT
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Since we're doing pichers: <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/Hipower/BHP1_zps30702992.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/Hipower/BHP1_zps30702992.jpg</a> <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/Hipower/BHP6_zpsca39bd30.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/Hipower/BHP6_zpsca39bd30.jpg</a> The ultimate combat version of the Hi-Power, as imagined by the genius Don Williams. This pistol started life as a stock .40 S&W Hi-Power. Don added Novak tritiumm sights, the Safety Fast Shooting fire control group, stippled the front and rear of the grip, milled new front slide serrations, hand fit the frame and slide, did a trigger job, hand-fit a .357 Sig barrel to go with the original .40 barrel, fit Navridex grips, and refinished the pistol in the Birdsong Black T finish. This pistol is *perfect* for just about any social use, with a smooth and crisp trigger. I love it so much that I'm sending one of my alloy-framed 9mm Hi-Powers to him to fit the same way. WOW! 
Excluding the extra barrel, are we talking greater than or less than $750 in custom work? |
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Posted: 5/14/2014 10:55:01 AM EDT
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WOW!
Excluding the extra barrel, are we talking greater than or less than $750 in custom work? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Since we're doing pichers: <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/Hipower/BHP1_zps30702992.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/Hipower/BHP1_zps30702992.jpg</a> <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/Hipower/BHP6_zpsca39bd30.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/Hipower/BHP6_zpsca39bd30.jpg</a> The ultimate combat version of the Hi-Power, as imagined by the genius Don Williams. This pistol started life as a stock .40 S&W Hi-Power. Don added Novak tritiumm sights, the Safety Fast Shooting fire control group, stippled the front and rear of the grip, milled new front slide serrations, hand fit the frame and slide, did a trigger job, hand-fit a .357 Sig barrel to go with the original .40 barrel, fit Navridex grips, and refinished the pistol in the Birdsong Black T finish. This pistol is *perfect* for just about any social use, with a smooth and crisp trigger. I love it so much that I'm sending one of my alloy-framed 9mm Hi-Powers to him to fit the same way. WOW!
Excluding the extra barrel, are we talking greater than or less than $750 in custom work? I didn't pay for the work, so I'm not sure.  I would guess it was close to that amount. I purchased the pistol for $950, and feel I got a bargain.
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Posted: 5/14/2014 11:02:09 AM EDT
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Since we're doing pichers: <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/Hipower/BHP1_zps30702992.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/Hipower/BHP1_zps30702992.jpg</a> <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/Hipower/BHP6_zpsca39bd30.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/Hipower/BHP6_zpsca39bd30.jpg</a> The ultimate combat version of the Hi-Power, as imagined by the genius Don Williams. This pistol started life as a stock .40 S&W Hi-Power. Don added Novak tritiumm sights, the Safety Fast Shooting fire control group, stippled the front and rear of the grip, milled new front slide serrations, hand fit the frame and slide, did a trigger job, hand-fit a .357 Sig barrel to go with the original .40 barrel, fit Navridex grips, and refinished the pistol in the Birdsong Black T finish. This pistol is *perfect* for just about any social use, with a smooth and crisp trigger. I love it so much that I'm sending one of my alloy-framed 9mm Hi-Powers to him to fit the same way. ETA: Hi-Power owners who suffer from hammer bite can fix the problem quite easily (and dramatically improve their trigger) by installing the SFS fire control group. Cylinder and Slide offers the system, which allows for carrying "hammer down" on a loaded chamber. With the SFS system installed, a round is chambered as normal, and then the hammer is pushed toward the firing pin, where it rests in a sort of half-cock position, and the safety rises to the up position. When the safety is flicked down, the hammer returns to the cocked position, and the gun operates normally. I have the SFS on two of my Hi-Powers, and the improvement in the trigger feel (weight and let off) was remarkable. That's a pretty slick pistol! I'm not seeing how the SFS can help with hammer bite. The slide does bring that hammer back into the meat of my hand. I just don't get bit, I get a bite taken out. I will literally have a bleeding hole in my hand after a magazine. Even the Glocks scrape tracks in my hand. I have seen some custom beavertail Hi Powers I'd like to try. Few and far between. Never seen one in person. |
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Posted: 5/14/2014 11:13:43 AM EDT
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That is beautiful
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Posted: 5/14/2014 2:00:36 PM EDT
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That's a pretty slick pistol! I'm not seeing how the SFS can help with hammer bite. The slide does bring that hammer back into the meat of my hand. I just don't get bit, I get a bite taken out. I will literally have a bleeding hole in my hand after a magazine. Even the Glocks scrape tracks in my hand. I have seen some custom beavertail Hi Powers I'd like to try. Few and far between. Never seen one in person. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Since we're doing pichers: <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/Hipower/BHP1_zps30702992.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/Hipower/BHP1_zps30702992.jpg</a> <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/Hipower/BHP6_zpsca39bd30.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/Hipower/BHP6_zpsca39bd30.jpg</a> The ultimate combat version of the Hi-Power, as imagined by the genius Don Williams. This pistol started life as a stock .40 S&W Hi-Power. Don added Novak tritiumm sights, the Safety Fast Shooting fire control group, stippled the front and rear of the grip, milled new front slide serrations, hand fit the frame and slide, did a trigger job, hand-fit a .357 Sig barrel to go with the original .40 barrel, fit Navridex grips, and refinished the pistol in the Birdsong Black T finish. This pistol is *perfect* for just about any social use, with a smooth and crisp trigger. I love it so much that I'm sending one of my alloy-framed 9mm Hi-Powers to him to fit the same way. ETA: Hi-Power owners who suffer from hammer bite can fix the problem quite easily (and dramatically improve their trigger) by installing the SFS fire control group. Cylinder and Slide offers the system, which allows for carrying "hammer down" on a loaded chamber. With the SFS system installed, a round is chambered as normal, and then the hammer is pushed toward the firing pin, where it rests in a sort of half-cock position, and the safety rises to the up position. When the safety is flicked down, the hammer returns to the cocked position, and the gun operates normally. I have the SFS on two of my Hi-Powers, and the improvement in the trigger feel (weight and let off) was remarkable. That's a pretty slick pistol! I'm not seeing how the SFS can help with hammer bite. The slide does bring that hammer back into the meat of my hand. I just don't get bit, I get a bite taken out. I will literally have a bleeding hole in my hand after a magazine. Even the Glocks scrape tracks in my hand. I have seen some custom beavertail Hi Powers I'd like to try. Few and far between. Never seen one in person. Cure for hammer bite: http://www.hipowersandhandguns.com/HiPowerandHammerBite.htm I had a similar mod done to my Rock Island GI. Haven't gotten around to it on my Hi Powers though. |
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Posted: 5/14/2014 7:29:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: lol MOAR pics! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: British Trooper Prince in Afghanistan. http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/1054424-3x4-700x933.jpg We're not good at spotting royals on this side of the pond. lol MOAR pics!  That picture was one of the reasons I started a BHP listing search in my GunBroker profile, and when Cole's started posting up all those ex-Israeli units so cheap it was just a matter of picking one that I liked and Buy Now.  |
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Posted: 5/15/2014 5:20:55 AM EDT
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I never quite grasped the concept of putting a pistol on a leash. Quote HistoryQuoted:
I never quite grasped the concept of putting a pistol on a leash. I always use lanyards, for the same reason that I dummy cord my NVGs and PEQs. People laugh at it, but whatever. I don't take chances of losing serialized crap at night. YMMV. |
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Posted: 5/15/2014 5:26:58 AM EDT
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I always use lanyards, for the same reason that I dummy cord my NVGs and PEQs. People laugh at it, but whatever. I don't take chances of losing serialized crap at night. YMMV. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I never quite grasped the concept of putting a pistol on a leash. I always use lanyards, for the same reason that I dummy cord my NVGs and PEQs. People laugh at it, but whatever. I don't take chances of losing serialized crap at night. YMMV. People think a lanyard is stupid until you roll down the side of a mountain in Afghanistan or fall through a manhole cover like I did in Iraq - retention and all that.. Murphy's law - your primary source of retention will break |
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Posted: 5/15/2014 5:53:06 AM EDT
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I'm not seeing how the SFS can help with hammer bite. The slide does bring that hammer back into the meat of my hand. The hammer is shaped so that it cannot come into contact with the hand: 
That is what it looks like when the hammer is cocked and ready to drop. Even when the slide is over the hammer, it never drops low enough to bite. |
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Posted: 5/15/2014 6:52:06 AM EDT
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I've used P35s for 20 years in every imaginable environment; they are adequate, solid performing service pistols. What has been said already is true and cant really add much; the triggers aren't very good and the mag safety sucks, sights are adequate. Its a WWII service pistol more or less so there's no surprises here. They can be made better with sights/safety/trigger job; but it will cost you. The slide moves around a bit with the trigger which can be hard to get used to for bullseye types. Most importantly for a newbie considering buying one: its not a 1911. Some people expect them to be like a 1911 because JMB designed it, but its' not so don't expect crisp/snappy thumb safeties and triggers. Hi-Powers are a bit of a nostalgia gun IMO; if you want a steel carry/service pistol there's far less expensive options available.
I wish I'd of seen the alloys; I'd of bought one. My back-burner project is a FM Detective slide kit on an alloy frame. |
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Posted: 5/15/2014 7:03:19 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/15/2014 7:04:44 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryRight to the yarbles... I will say though...seeing one makes me want to shoot one again. |
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Posted: 5/15/2014 7:17:48 AM EDT
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Since we're doing pichers: <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/Hipower/BHP1_zps30702992.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/Hipower/BHP1_zps30702992.jpg</a> <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/Hipower/BHP6_zpsca39bd30.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/Hipower/BHP6_zpsca39bd30.jpg</a> The ultimate combat version of the Hi-Power, as imagined by the genius Don Williams. This pistol started life as a stock .40 S&W Hi-Power. Don added Novak tritiumm sights, the Safety Fast Shooting fire control group, stippled the front and rear of the grip, milled new front slide serrations, hand fit the frame and slide, did a trigger job, hand-fit a .357 Sig barrel to go with the original .40 barrel, fit Navridex grips, and refinished the pistol in the Birdsong Black T finish. This pistol is *perfect* for just about any social use, with a smooth and crisp trigger. I love it so much that I'm sending one of my alloy-framed 9mm Hi-Powers to him to fit the same way. ETA: Hi-Power owners who suffer from hammer bite can fix the problem quite easily (and dramatically improve their trigger) by installing the SFS fire control group. Cylinder and Slide offers the system, which allows for carrying "hammer down" on a loaded chamber. With the SFS system installed, a round is chambered as normal, and then the hammer is pushed toward the firing pin, where it rests in a sort of half-cock position, and the safety rises to the up position. When the safety is flicked down, the hammer returns to the cocked position, and the gun operates normally. I have the SFS on two of my Hi-Powers, and the improvement in the trigger feel (weight and let off) was remarkable. I know I will have sticker shock, but if you will: Work Price? ETA: Never mind found the answer down thread |
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Posted: 5/15/2014 7:19:03 AM EDT
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I know I will have sticker shock, but if you will: Work Price? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Since we're doing pichers: <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/Hipower/BHP1_zps30702992.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/Hipower/BHP1_zps30702992.jpg</a> <a href="http://s802.photobucket.com/user/ndandosu/media/Hipower/BHP6_zpsca39bd30.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy303/ndandosu/Hipower/BHP6_zpsca39bd30.jpg</a> The ultimate combat version of the Hi-Power, as imagined by the genius Don Williams. This pistol started life as a stock .40 S&W Hi-Power. Don added Novak tritiumm sights, the Safety Fast Shooting fire control group, stippled the front and rear of the grip, milled new front slide serrations, hand fit the frame and slide, did a trigger job, hand-fit a .357 Sig barrel to go with the original .40 barrel, fit Navridex grips, and refinished the pistol in the Birdsong Black T finish. This pistol is *perfect* for just about any social use, with a smooth and crisp trigger. I love it so much that I'm sending one of my alloy-framed 9mm Hi-Powers to him to fit the same way. ETA: Hi-Power owners who suffer from hammer bite can fix the problem quite easily (and dramatically improve their trigger) by installing the SFS fire control group. Cylinder and Slide offers the system, which allows for carrying "hammer down" on a loaded chamber. With the SFS system installed, a round is chambered as normal, and then the hammer is pushed toward the firing pin, where it rests in a sort of half-cock position, and the safety rises to the up position. When the safety is flicked down, the hammer returns to the cocked position, and the gun operates normally. I have the SFS on two of my Hi-Powers, and the improvement in the trigger feel (weight and let off) was remarkable. I know I will have sticker shock, but if you will: Work Price? I look it up. $882 not counting the extra barrel. http://www.theactionworks.com/browning.htm |
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Posted: 5/15/2014 7:51:14 AM EDT
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Dons website prices are no longer accurate. You need to ask him to provide a quote; that work will be more than $882 today.
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Posted: 5/15/2014 8:03:36 AM EDT
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Dons website prices are no longer accurate. You need to ask him to provide a quote; that work will be more than $882 today. Lovely. |
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Posted: 5/15/2014 9:08:23 AM EDT
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Lovely. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Dons website prices are no longer accurate. You need to ask him to provide a quote; that work will be more than $882 today. Lovely. Don is old and BUSY. Updating websites isn't what keeps him busy. His quality of work earns that price, and given how few people work on Brownings, he can charge it. |
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Posted: 5/15/2014 1:02:13 PM EDT
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The hammer is shaped so that it cannot come into contact with the hand: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/radionicist/hipowersfs.jpg That is what it looks like when the hammer is cocked and ready to drop. Even when the slide is over the hammer, it never drops low enough to bite. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm not seeing how the SFS can help with hammer bite. The slide does bring that hammer back into the meat of my hand. The hammer is shaped so that it cannot come into contact with the hand: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v714/radionicist/hipowersfs.jpg That is what it looks like when the hammer is cocked and ready to drop. Even when the slide is over the hammer, it never drops low enough to bite. I get bit where the hammer meets the frame. The tip of the hammer is just a love nip. 
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Posted: 5/15/2014 3:00:04 PM EDT
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Guess who owns a Hi Power now!
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Posted: 5/15/2014 3:07:46 PM EDT
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Very nice!
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Posted: 5/15/2014 3:10:04 PM EDT
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Got the mag disconnect out yet?
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Posted: 5/15/2014 3:12:11 PM EDT
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Got the mag disconnect out yet? No. Got it home, field stripped it, took two pictures, then put it in the safe. Had to tend to the toddler. |
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Posted: 5/15/2014 3:18:08 PM EDT
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I got the call tonight that my FFL has the one I ordered from AIM Surplus the other day, just need to make it up there, probably Saturday.
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Posted: 5/15/2014 3:31:27 PM EDT
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<a href="http://s13.photobucket.com/user/SJAMIESON/media/T%20Hipower/IMG_3011.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a287/SJAMIESON/T%20Hipower/IMG_3011.jpg</a> Is that hard chrome or what? Really looks good. I'd really like to pick up an alloy one of these days. 
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Posted: 5/15/2014 3:46:21 PM EDT
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I should have bought one of these years ago.
Mag safety removed. |
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Posted: 5/15/2014 6:33:55 PM EDT
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Right to the yarbles... I will say though...seeing one makes me want to shoot one again. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Right to the yarbles... I will say though...seeing one makes me want to shoot one again. I got cheated out of shooting the L85 because the Scots said it was too rainy to go to the range. Major letdown even though 2 weeks of working and drinking in the Highlands kicked ass. |
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Posted: 5/17/2014 2:52:43 PM EDT
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HiPower Owner´s Forum back again!
up and running again! Your primary source of info on HP´s! Hermann |
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Posted: 5/17/2014 7:18:34 PM EDT
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I'm having fun tracking down information about mine... FN Hi Power, left side marked FABRIQUE NATIONALE HERSTAL BELGIQUE over BROWNING'S PATENT DEPOSE, fixed sights, no slot for shoulder stock, hole for lanyard to screw in, blued, serial number of A7106 on frame, 7106 marked on magazine, slide, and barrel.
 
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