HiPoint SW .40

[ArmyBuck]

Hi all,

I was looking at some semi-auto pistols and came across the HiPoint .40 cal it's not an expensive weapon. Does anyone have any reviews, comments, and or suggestions?

Specifications and Features:
Hi-Point JCP-40 Semi Auto Pistol 34010LLTGM
LaserLyte Trigger Guard Mount Package
.40 Smith & Wesson
4.5" Barrel
10 Rounds
High Impact Polymer Frame
Black Powder Coat Finish
3 Dot adjustable sights
Last round lock open
Quick on-off thumb safety
Magazine Disconnect Safety
Operations safety sheet
+P rated
Free trigger lock
Lifetime warranty
100% American-made, parts and assembly
Overall Length 7.75"
Overall Weight 35 oz
Matte Black

Thanks
ArmyBuck

 

[BlackTalonJHP]

If you want a .40S&W, I would strongly recommend going with a used M&P40 instead. If cost is your number one priority, get the Hi Point in 9mm instead. If you are dead set against 9mm, get the Hi Point in .45 ACP.

 

[GatorFarmer]

I actually have a Hi Point .45. It is my other .45 to a Sig 1911.

The Hi Point has been exactly 99 percent reliable over 300 rounds. It malfunctions once every 100 rounds fired (FMJ). It may still be breaking itself in. It is not hard to shoot and accuracy is decent.

I have heard the .40 is not as reliable as the 9 and .45.

The 9mm is more concealable, in so far as one might conceal a Hi Point.

To be fair, two of my malfunctions were with aluminum cased ammo. This same ammo caused a malfunction in the Sig. I no longer buy it.

 

[CajunBass]

I wouldn't buy one in .40, but then I wouldn't buy anything in .40.

I had a 9mm Hi-Point for years. That silly thing ran like a watch. I don't know how many thousands of rounds I put through it but it was back when 9mm ammo was cheap, and I didn't have other guns, so it was a bunch. I had maybe a half dozen malfunctions (IE "Jams") that were easily cleared, and I remember four of them came out of one box of "range reloads" so they were most likely ammo related.

Nine MM is still about the least expensive centerfire ammo you can buy I suspect. If I was going to buy an inexpensive gun, I'd get one I could shoot inexpensive ammo in.

 

[amcline82]

You get what you pay for.

 

[dusty3030]

If you keep your eyes open and are quick police trade in Glock 22's and 23's in .40 can be had for right around $300 sometimes less. Pop in a new recoil spring and good to go for another 5,000 rounds.
3rd Gen Smith and Wesson .40's usually sell at a bargain.

What is your budget?

 

[alwslate]

A recent issue of the American Rifleman magazine had an article on
the Hipoint guns and company. There are many thousands of used
auto loaders out there however and like others have said your money
would likely be better spent on one of them. And like some others I
wouldn't buy anything in .40 caliber. My choice for cost and other
reasons is the 9mm.

 

[TX-Dennis]

I don't have a Hi-Point pistol, but I've got one of their 9mm carbines. Fun little plinking gun. It's as accurate as anything, reliable so far (only a couple hundred rounds), and fun to shoot. If I wanted a Hi-Point pistol I think I'd pick up a 9. I try to stick to those since ammo is cheap.

I did notice during the big ammo "shortage" a few years back that often .40 was the only thing in stock at a lot of local shops. Kinda made me want a .40 back then, but I resisted the urge.

 

[pittpa]

Am Rifleman June 2015 American Rifleman | Hi-Point Firearms And The Man Behind Them

 

[Luke Duke]

HI-Point???

Jeeze the few I've been around have been total junk. You would be better off throwing it at a bad guy or maybe clubbing them with it. Jam-O-Matic.
Find a used Glock, just my .02 cents worth.

 

[msjdgman]

I've had the 9mm version...the C9 for quite a few years. It is my 365 day a year truck gun. I've only put about 350 rounds thru it, but the darned thing has been flawless. Never has missed a beat. The thing is ugly as sin as far as I'm concerned, and a clunky chunk....but I'm keeping it right where it is for it's intended purpose of woodchuck gun etc when I'm not otherwise armed.

 

[JaPes]

I used to own a Hi-Point JHP 45. I wish I had not traded it off.

I bought it when I started reloading .45 ACP. I figured if I was to blow up a gun running test loads, better the Hi-Point than a West German Sig P220. Funny thing happened. I started to like the Hi-Point. I started to shoot it regularly.

For every single internet negative of the gun, the fact of the matter is:

• The sights are dead on.
• The trigger isn't the best, but it's not the worst ever either.
• The fixed barrel blowback design has a greater potential for accuracy than other actions.
• It didn't fail me once over a couple thousand rounds.

It would be the gun I would use to prove that given a working decent gun, marksmanship fundamentals will trump a pistol with a high price tag. You can't buy into skill. Using the Hi-Point, I'd shoot 10 yard off hand bullseye against friends with more $$$ than skill to shame them into practicing more.

It has a magazine disconnect located under the ejection port side grip panel. Remove that little bar, and you delete the magazine disconnect.

The only real potential problem I had with the Zymac slide, was pinching of the firing pin channel. I forget what in the design of the lower contacted this portion of the firing pin channel.

Over a couple thousand rounds, it didn't close up. I figure a few thousand more, and I'd have had problems. Solution: send it back to Hi-Point under the lifetime warranty.

 

[JaPes]

The 9mm is more concealable, in so far as one might conceal a Hi Point.

That's a big selling point in socioeconomic depressed urban neighborhoods.

 

[ky wonder]

they are tough reliable ugly guns that sell at a price point for those who don't want to put a fortune in a gun

I would also recommend the 9mm as fire as ammo cost, 9mm range ammo can still be found at the $10 a box price point

locally the Taurus ( non-American millennium compacts are selling at the $209 point I would rather have the tarus, but the high point is tough

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[GatorFarmer]

The original poster is in NJ, which has some laws on the books frowning on JHP ammunition to extent last I knew, and also makes getting a carry permit troublesome. The .45 Hi Point holds one more round than the 9mm version, albeit at greater size. If expanding bullets are an issue, the .45 is much less dependent on JHPs in order to do what it needs to do.

 

[JaPes]

The model of Hi-Point I was referring to is "JHP 45". I in no way stated or advocated the use of Jacketed Hollow Point ammunition.