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Old 04-17-2018, 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Big E3 View Post
I found stock pics of the S&W like version of the FEG Hi Power. As you can see it has a number of subtle external changes. Notice the slide mounted safety like most Smith’s of the day and it is SA/DA. There is also a S&W type step in the frame just forward of the trigger guard and a different shape to the top rear of the grip panel. Plus, as noted above it has a varying number different internal changes from the Browning design. I am surprised that this was ever thought to be a Hi Power clone. Aside from an attempt to make similar grip panels and the shape of the front of the slide that is about the end of similarities.
That's the double action P9R. It is indeed an S&W 59 clone.

However, the second generation P9M looks like a Hi Power, but has the S&W locking system. Externally you can tell them apart from the P9 and first gen P9M by the lack of an oval in the right side of the frame, above the trigger. If it doesn't have that oval, it is not a Hi Power or Hi Power clone.
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