Let`s see your Hi-Powers
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Alpo
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Buenas Aires police gun. Belgian-made.
lawandorder
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Here are a couple...............
2 Tone is tuned by John Gallagher, the blue one and I have had some adventures in close proximity.
2 Tone is tuned by John Gallagher, the blue one and I have had some adventures in close proximity.
My one and only.
Jerry
Jerry
Here is my Hi-Power made in 1977. This was my last gun of 2011.
How about an Inglis.
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LedFowl
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.40 Practical
sipowicz
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82 Belgium. Looks like Jerry and I have the same tastes...
45Wheelgun
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I have a couple "internal extractor" models.
One from 1962:
One pre-war:
One from 1962:
One pre-war:
mkk41
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Plain wartime version with repro holster.
Imshootin
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I'm down to one.
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IceCreamMan
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Alpo
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Any idea when yours was made? Your number is some 4000 earlier than mine. All I've been able to find out is mine is pre-63, because of the internal extractor.
Also, does yours have a gouge in the left grip? I've wondered, since I got it, if there was some kind of plaque there, that was removed when it was surplused out. But I've never met anyone else with one to ask. If yours also has the gouge, then it makes my plaque theory plausible. If yours don't, then I've just got a buggered grip.
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IceCreamMan
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Any idea when yours was made? Your number is some 4000 earlier than mine. All I've been able to find out is mine is pre-63, because of the internal extractor.
Also, does yours have a gouge in the left grip? I've wondered, since I got it, if there was some kind of plaque there, that was removed when it was surplused out. But I've never met anyone else with one to ask. If yours also has the gouge, then it makes my plaque theory plausible. If yours don't, then I've just got a buggered grip.
I recently read 8,000 of these were sold by FN in 1961 to the Buenos Aires Police dept. Not sure if this is accurate but I would guess the guns mostly date to 61 or a year or two earlier. Anyone chime in here... My grips are not damaged but I don't think they are original.
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Alpo
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Like yours, mine says Police Province, BS Aires - 61, but I figgered that was like a police precinct, more than a date. My number is in the 6000s. I notice that yours is polished and blue. Mine is gray/green parkerized.
ColbyBruce
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I have owned eight Browning HP's
I gave the MKIII .40 S&W at the top of the photo to our son for Christmas. The bottom is my 1973 model 9mm that I have owned since 1980.
I gave the MKIII .40 S&W at the top of the photo to our son for Christmas. The bottom is my 1973 model 9mm that I have owned since 1980.
Dennis The B
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Here are mine; both in .40 S&W
sipowicz
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Both are the cream of the crop in autos...I just give the edge to the HP as it fits my hand better and is a softer shooter...1911s have better triggers on average but I'm pretty happy with the 4.5# trigger on my HP from Jim Hoag....
Here's my T-series pistol.
bshepherd
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.40 from 1995. My carry piece/truck gun for many years.
Picked this up in a trade at OGCA Saturday, a 1994 built MKIII 40 Cal.
I would guess 98%
Pilgrim
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my 65 T:
OK, Mike1957, you asked for it..
but chocolate from Belgium is fine too. Here's mine with two gripversions. The Browning-logos on the white grips are not yet integrated.
Where would you place the brass-pieces on the white hollywood-grips?
Swissman
but chocolate from Belgium is fine too. Here's mine with two gripversions. The Browning-logos on the white grips are not yet integrated.
Where would you place the brass-pieces on the white hollywood-grips?
Swissman
Armyphotog
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Mike1957, I had one like yours, but alas, got away from me years ago. Wished I had it back, but for some reason I never like the way it shot.
pilgrim6a
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semperfi71
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1967 I think. My definition of, "I never knew what I was missing until now." A Hi-Power is a dream to shoot.
Why, normally one would put them in the same location Browning specified when they had Pachmayr produce the rubber grips you see in the picture with the .22. But then, who said anything about normal - right?
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