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05-07-2017, 02:10 PM
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Browning Hi Power fans...ever see...
A Hi Power in a box like this ?
Very clean 1982 vintage I picked up a couple weeks
ago.
Previous owner advised the empty cut out contained
a long lost extended mag.
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05-07-2017, 02:20 PM
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Never saw a box like for a HP. Brownings never shipped with an extended mag. Nice pistol. Near the end of totally Belgian made and assembled guns.
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05-07-2017, 02:30 PM
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Looks to me like the box is of more recent vintage. The box style resembles the same outer shell used for the early Five-Seven Pistols. At or near that time FN was also selling the HP pistol marked "FN" with the FN logo instead of "Browning."
Does your box have a correct label matching the pistol? If not, is it possible that the previous owner re-purposed a more recent vintage box?
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05-07-2017, 02:35 PM
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Never seeing a Browning HP in a box like that. Take it out of the box and take some pictures. Would love to see that beauty in all its glory. Good score
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05-07-2017, 02:48 PM
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Nice HP! 
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05-07-2017, 03:55 PM
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Typical buy the gun not the story......
I have a proper vintage pouch around here
someplace.
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05-07-2017, 04:08 PM
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IIRC (?) in the 1980 era the Browning Hi-Power 9mm pistols came in a black pistol rug with a red interior.
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05-07-2017, 05:14 PM
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Just a SWAG but, was the previous owner in the military and stationed in Europe? It could possibly have been a purchased from a U.S. based rod and gun club in the ETO.
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05-07-2017, 06:40 PM
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Matter of fact... Finland
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