george minze
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Love em myself...Too me they are the best, well I love the SW model 39 to.
Browning Hi-Power as a carry gun
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lawandorder
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Another fan of the BHP........
Here is one I am fond of.
Here is one I am fond of.
OIF2
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Here is one I am fond of.
LOVE that holster...tell us about it (the BHP is nice, too!)
Bob
lawandorder
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Bob the old tooled holster is unmarked but who ever the craftsman was he did a good job.
Blademan
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I carried a Browning Hi-Power for many years, in a Bianchi shoulder holster(X-15), and also carried it "Mexican" style in my waistband back in the day when I worked homicide in a City police department. Back then as long as you could qualify with it, you could carry it. The ammo back then was no where near as advanced as today's offerings. I have a Browning Hi-Power sitting in my safe and would not hesitate to carry one again. Great reliable weapon, that shoots like pointing your finger.
Sebago Son
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I have 2 40's and a 9. Frankly, I prefer the 40's. They gobble up Fed-Spec. Maximum Effort 155's and beg for more. This is the load that was known for tearing up Glocks.
The Browning "Factory" Magazines for the .40 have a well designed ejection assist that clears the pistol positively.
The old trick of polishing the front face of the magazine body where the disconnect bears on it has helped the trigger pull considerably.
I would carry a BHP without hesitation.
Drew
The Browning "Factory" Magazines for the .40 have a well designed ejection assist that clears the pistol positively.
The old trick of polishing the front face of the magazine body where the disconnect bears on it has helped the trigger pull considerably.
I would carry a BHP without hesitation.
Drew
Larry from Bend
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I nearly bought a beautiiful, nickled, adj. sighted BHP in the late 70s but came to the realization that I wasn't going to be comfortable carrying it cocked and locked. Still wish I had bought it to shoot, however. One of the prettiest semis I ever saw.
amazingflapjack
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The BHP, like the 1911, can be equiped with the "safety fast shooting system" which, in my view is a much better idea than cocked and locked, and would make aHi-Power a very effective CC piece in my view. Flapjack.
george minze
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I guess I'm going to show my ignorance...But what is a "Safety Fast System" for a BHP I would really like to know as I am a fan of the BHP..
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The SFS system in a nut shell replaces the hammer. You chamber a round like normal then push the back of the hammer forward. The hammer then "drops" forward and the safety locks in the up postion. To fire you push the safety off and the hammer then goes to full cocked and you fire like normal. It's offered by Cylinder and Slide. I had one on my 1911 and it worked fine.
george minze
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thanks for info
Thank you, I have never had C&S do anything for me but I certainly have herd of them especially one of their finishes..I will look up their info on their site...Thanks again...Love this forum...Somebody will know something about almost anything... Seems like I remember a Semi auto I think it was Dawoo or something like that. It looked like a SW 39 but had a strange type of hammer so you could carry it with hammer down but with single action trigger pull.
Thank you, I have never had C&S do anything for me but I certainly have herd of them especially one of their finishes..I will look up their info on their site...Thanks again...Love this forum...Somebody will know something about almost anything... Seems like I remember a Semi auto I think it was Dawoo or something like that. It looked like a SW 39 but had a strange type of hammer so you could carry it with hammer down but with single action trigger pull.
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45Wheelgun
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This is my most recent HP, a prewar, 4 digit model with tangent sight.
Only problem I am having is trying to conceal the holster...
Only problem I am having is trying to conceal the holster...
I carried a Hi-Power a lot when I was a reserve officer in the early 1980s (off duty) and shot a lot of IPSC matches with it.
It was always superbly reliable and out of perhaps a half dozen of them I've owned I've seen very little ever go wrong with one.
Best I can tell its just as viable now as it was then if you want to carry a full size pistol.
A friend once said "theres different than a Browning Hi-Power but not really better" and I agree with that.
Besides I was at a skeet shooting class one day with it in an inside waist band holster and a guy actually walked up to me and said "do you know your pistol is cocked?". You can't put a price on something like that.
It was always superbly reliable and out of perhaps a half dozen of them I've owned I've seen very little ever go wrong with one.
Best I can tell its just as viable now as it was then if you want to carry a full size pistol.
A friend once said "theres different than a Browning Hi-Power but not really better" and I agree with that.
Besides I was at a skeet shooting class one day with it in an inside waist band holster and a guy actually walked up to me and said "do you know your pistol is cocked?". You can't put a price on something like that.
szuppo
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Nice BHP. Not trying to bust your balls but you do know that has been refinished?
45Wheelgun
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Of course. That isn't oil around the grips, it is pitting under the blue. Considering there were only 68,000 pre war guns that were primarily sold outside the US, I am happy to have one. It had a hard life in China I am told. I paid low shooter money for it....and shoot it I do.
This '62 vintage has beautiful vintage FN blue, and yes, I know those are not factory sights.
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pooka
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.40 BHP
Hi guys (& gals)
I usually carry a snub on my ankle off duty, but occasionally I carry a .40 BHP w/ SFS in a strong side Jack Slide. I got the .40, cause I like the bigger rnd, as well as the fact I carry a .40 Glunk
at work. I'll tell you a slick 9mm IWB weapon to carry is a P7, PSP. Little smaller, flatter then the BHP, and what a shooter!
Hi guys (& gals)
I usually carry a snub on my ankle off duty, but occasionally I carry a .40 BHP w/ SFS in a strong side Jack Slide. I got the .40, cause I like the bigger rnd, as well as the fact I carry a .40 Glunk
at work. I'll tell you a slick 9mm IWB weapon to carry is a P7, PSP. Little smaller, flatter then the BHP, and what a shooter!
sub-moa
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Good to find yet another thread feeding my p35 sickness 
cwo4uscgret
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Pooka - I think the P7 PSP would make for a great backup when carrying a High Power!
Of course the Israeli High Power makes a fine companion carry for the Uzi!
Of course the Israeli High Power makes a fine companion carry for the Uzi!
Gutpile Charlie
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I've been a shooter/collector for fifty years now and just never had a Browning Hi Power......until Christmas.
Claus left one in my stocking and I can not thank him enough. It is the 75th Anniversary model and my son, daughter and wife got it for me.
I had just been talking to my son that I really Jones'ed for a P35 but just had never got one. He found one that CDNN was selling and ordered it for me.
Took it to the range yesterday and it performed 100%....but it is too pretty to use.....it has that high luster, highly polished bluing.
I've used so many of the "modern" pistols lately I was not ready for the "old school" single action, drop the mag to close the slide, etc.
It will be one of my favorites.....but my carry piece is still, and will always be my M60 S&W snubby.
Claus left one in my stocking and I can not thank him enough. It is the 75th Anniversary model and my son, daughter and wife got it for me.
I had just been talking to my son that I really Jones'ed for a P35 but just had never got one. He found one that CDNN was selling and ordered it for me.
Took it to the range yesterday and it performed 100%....but it is too pretty to use.....it has that high luster, highly polished bluing.
I've used so many of the "modern" pistols lately I was not ready for the "old school" single action, drop the mag to close the slide, etc.
It will be one of my favorites.....but my carry piece is still, and will always be my M60 S&W snubby.
