I picked this one up a couple of weeks ago from Sportsman's Warehouse for just over $500.00 out the door. The Girsan MC P-35 is a copy of the Browning/FN P-35 Hi-Power. Made in Turkey, it's an all steel, single-action semi, that came in a plastic box, with the usual papers, cable lock and such, but only one 15 round magazine. The gun is well made. The slide moves like glass. No machine or tool marks. The trigger is heavy I suppose, at about 7.5-8.0 pounds, but it feels much lighter. Nice clean break with a short reset.
The safety is amberdextious, the rest of the controls are normal for a P-35. It does have the magazine disconnect. The sights are fixed, with a ramp front. The grips are much more comfortable than I thought they'd be. I figured I'd replace them quickly. Now I think I'll just keep them.
After about 200 rounds of my reloads, some Blazer Brass, and Winchester White Box ammo, (all 115 grain RN) it has not malfunctioned at all. Accuracy is...I'm not a very good shot, but I shoot it a lot better than I do all of the small 9mm's I've been fooling with lately.
From 7 yards. Any misses are my fault, not the guns. With this target I noticed I was pulling right. My previous one, I pulled left. More evidence it's not the gun.
I'm pretty pleased with it.
One other thing. I don't know how important it would be to most, but they're available in three colors. Plain black, a black/gray, and this one flat desert earth. I wanted a black/grey but they didn't have them in stock so they sent the FDE. I suppose I could have refused it and had them send another, but the color wasn't that important, and the FDE looked better in "real life" than in the pictures.
The safety is amberdextious, the rest of the controls are normal for a P-35. It does have the magazine disconnect. The sights are fixed, with a ramp front. The grips are much more comfortable than I thought they'd be. I figured I'd replace them quickly. Now I think I'll just keep them.
After about 200 rounds of my reloads, some Blazer Brass, and Winchester White Box ammo, (all 115 grain RN) it has not malfunctioned at all. Accuracy is...I'm not a very good shot, but I shoot it a lot better than I do all of the small 9mm's I've been fooling with lately.
From 7 yards. Any misses are my fault, not the guns. With this target I noticed I was pulling right. My previous one, I pulled left. More evidence it's not the gun.
I'm pretty pleased with it.
One other thing. I don't know how important it would be to most, but they're available in three colors. Plain black, a black/gray, and this one flat desert earth. I wanted a black/grey but they didn't have them in stock so they sent the FDE. I suppose I could have refused it and had them send another, but the color wasn't that important, and the FDE looked better in "real life" than in the pictures.
