Let`s see your Hi-Powers

[sipowicz]

How does a Hi-Power compare with a Colt 1911? Sonora

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....

 

[Thiokol]

Here's my T-series pistol.

 

[bshepherd]

.40 from 1995. My carry piece/truck gun for many years.

 

[raisedin99]

Picked this up in a trade at OGCA Saturday, a 1994 built MKIII 40 Cal.
I would guess 98%

 

[Pilgrim]

my 65 T:

 

[Swissman]

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

 

[Armyphotog]

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]

I'll play.
We have a '76 'C' series, a Mk III Silverchrome, and a Argentine FM 90.
This is an older pic. All three have ambi safeties now.

504

 

[semperfi71]

1967 I think. My definition of, "I never knew what I was missing until now." A Hi-Power is a dream to shoot.

 

[M29since14]

Where would you place the brass-pieces on the white hollywood-grips?

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?

 

[Eltioloco]

Here is my Armand Swenson built Hi-Power.
About 30 years ago I was talking to some of the Elders in our gun club about which 9mm pistol was the best. One of the fellows goes out to his car and comes back with a briefcase and 100 rounds of factory ammo. Inside the briefcase was a Browning Hi-Power, S&W 59, S&W 39, Beretta 92, 1911 Colt in 9mm and a Walther P-38. He let me shoot each pistol so I could make up my own mind. I fell in love with the Hi-Power that day. It fit my hand better then the others and as I had a 1911a1 Colt already, it just seemed to make sense.
Ken

 

[sipowicz]

You win....

 

[moosedog]

Here's the only one I own. 1942 production. I have since picked up a proper holster and extra magazine for it.

 

[OIF2]

Here's a few

1953 German police issue

1967 T-Series, Israeli police issue, parkerized

Two 67 Ts

Don Williams-tuned Practical

Belgian MKII, Navridex stocks, Hoag-tuned trigger

 

[45Wheelgun]

Here's a few
Don Williams-tuned Practical

I have been waiting for the right practical to come along. Since that one doesn't seem to group very well, I would be happy to take it off your hands....!

Great looking gun, great looking group.

Dave

 

[Maximumbob54]

Here's mine:

I really need to come to terms with what I'm doing with her. I haven't even told myself I'm fine with tearing out that horrid mag safety. And the stock sights are that old style from when men must have had 20/15 vision since they are next to impossible to see. Add a sunny day at the range and the sights may as well be invisable. So she sets as a safe queen. I need to either get off the fence and have some decent Novaks installed and rip out that mag safety or just sell her. I just can't figure the direction just yet. She is crying for some nice Spegel panels though. I should at least do that for her.

 

[M29since14]

Installing sights on that gun, if it is hard-chrome finished (appears to be), is not going to be much fun. It may be best left alone, for that reason.

As to the mag safety, anyone with a brass punch and a few minutes can remove that and it does help the trigger pull, sometimes greatly. I was a bit disappointed when I took it out of my Mk III. Good improvement in trigger action, but I expected that also to cure the annoying bit of the magazine staying in the gun when the release is pressed. Unfortunately, it didn't.

The magazine is a Browning mag, but I think it is too big for the grip-frame, so I need to get a couple Mec-Gar magazines and try them. I have heard that may cure the problem. I am not fond of the factory "mousetrap" magazines, but I guess after the Mec-Gar, that would be the next step - or else some careful whittling on the inside of the mag well.

 

[Maximumbob54]

My BHP is stainless and has a brushed finish. It's not that old, but it is at least from the time when they were both made and put together in FN's Belgium plant. I don't like the feeling of chopping her up since for all I know they didn't make a million of these and she may be a little rare. If that's the case then I think I may sell her. But as she is, I love her and yet I can't stand her. And my mag doesn't fall free either.

 

[A10]

I am not fond of the factory "mousetrap" magazines

I'm not a big fan of them either, except for the fact they just plain launch an empty magazine clear. I don't much care for gadgets, but this one seems to function.

 

[Texas Star]

My BHP is stainless and has a brushed finish. It's not that old, but it is at least from the time when they were both made and put together in FN's Belgium plant. I don't like the feeling of chopping her up since for all I know they didn't make a million of these and she may be a little rare. If that's the case then I think I may sell her. But as she is, I love her and yet I can't stand her. And my mag doesn't fall free either.

Your gun is not stainless. Never made the Hi-Power in stainless. You probably have hard chrome.