gsbuickman
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Hiya Guys ,
So here we go again, I told myself I wasn't gonna do it, again, I wasn't gonna buy any more guns for awhile, then I turned around and just bought that Mannlicher M95 as an early Christmas present this year.
Well, now I've went and done it again. I've been kicking myself in the proverbial butt ever since I sold the Israeli Kareen mk.1 Browning Hi Power that I had not too long ago. Well, I was just telling someone the other day that if another Hi Power crossed my path I was going to jump on it and if it had the same small fixed GI sights that the mk1 had, I'd take it to the shop and have it dovetailed to put a set of 3 dots on it.
Well, a hi power didn't exactly cross my path, I started making phone calls this morning to the local gun shops and I'll be damned if I didn't actually find one for $450, well, actually I found 2, but the other one was a genuine FN Hi Power for $700. I had the $, I probably shouldn't have spent it, but I didn't want to miss the opportunity while it was there and I didn't want to kick myself for not doing it, so, I did it, again. With the Christmas sale it was $380 out the door with a bulldog ambidextrous holster, 2 magazines and a cable lock.
Now that I have a Hi Power and a Compact 1911 45 I swear I'm done buying guns for a while. If I buy any more guns anytime soon someone please shoot me in the face with a bazooka.
Now that I've had some time to do a bunch of research and pour through a ton of Hi-Power threads on numerous forums going back 10-15 years, it's about time to do a thread on my new Hi-Power clone.
It seems that no one has been able to nail down a definitive chronology of the Browning Hi Power with all the different variants and knockoffs that have surfaced over the last 20 years or so, so you could almost say that they're a lot like the SKS because almost anything seems possible.
Now in regards to the Hi-Power that I picked up yesterday, it's a somewhat rare FEG PJK-9HP from Hungary.
This is also an exact clone of the early 70's Hi-Power design.
On the left side of the frame just above the trigger a little to the left of the trigger hinge pin is the licensed trademark logo that confirms all the factory Browning hi-power parts will work with this. On the right side of the frame just above and a little to the left of the trigger hinge pin is the oval cross bolt footprint which verifies that this has John Moses Browning linkless Barrel design. It seems that on the later model letter "G" designated serial number varients they also used the Smith & Wesson model 59 rotating Barrel design as well.
This Hi-Power was imported by K.B.I Inc. Harrisburg, PA. It's in very nice shape, the blueing is probably in 8/10 condition and the action is smooth as butter. The trigger has a tiny bit of grit in it, other than that it's really nice and nothing a little polishing won't clear up. One of the other factors that sold me on this one is that the rear sight is dovetailed and it has 3 dots on it, including the fixed front sight which means I don't have to spend any money at the gunsmith for this one.
For all intents and purposes, it's basically everything that's good and wholesome about the 1911 with John Browning's refinements and improvements he made when he designed this before he died, with no pain in the butt Barrel bushing to screw with just a break it down for cleaning. The closest comparison that I can make is it breaks down just like a Sig Sauer P226 or SP2022.
So here we go again, I told myself I wasn't gonna do it, again, I wasn't gonna buy any more guns for awhile, then I turned around and just bought that Mannlicher M95 as an early Christmas present this year.
Well, now I've went and done it again. I've been kicking myself in the proverbial butt ever since I sold the Israeli Kareen mk.1 Browning Hi Power that I had not too long ago. Well, I was just telling someone the other day that if another Hi Power crossed my path I was going to jump on it and if it had the same small fixed GI sights that the mk1 had, I'd take it to the shop and have it dovetailed to put a set of 3 dots on it.
Well, a hi power didn't exactly cross my path, I started making phone calls this morning to the local gun shops and I'll be damned if I didn't actually find one for $450, well, actually I found 2, but the other one was a genuine FN Hi Power for $700. I had the $, I probably shouldn't have spent it, but I didn't want to miss the opportunity while it was there and I didn't want to kick myself for not doing it, so, I did it, again. With the Christmas sale it was $380 out the door with a bulldog ambidextrous holster, 2 magazines and a cable lock.
Now that I have a Hi Power and a Compact 1911 45 I swear I'm done buying guns for a while. If I buy any more guns anytime soon someone please shoot me in the face with a bazooka.
Now that I've had some time to do a bunch of research and pour through a ton of Hi-Power threads on numerous forums going back 10-15 years, it's about time to do a thread on my new Hi-Power clone.
It seems that no one has been able to nail down a definitive chronology of the Browning Hi Power with all the different variants and knockoffs that have surfaced over the last 20 years or so, so you could almost say that they're a lot like the SKS because almost anything seems possible.
Now in regards to the Hi-Power that I picked up yesterday, it's a somewhat rare FEG PJK-9HP from Hungary.
This is also an exact clone of the early 70's Hi-Power design.
On the left side of the frame just above the trigger a little to the left of the trigger hinge pin is the licensed trademark logo that confirms all the factory Browning hi-power parts will work with this. On the right side of the frame just above and a little to the left of the trigger hinge pin is the oval cross bolt footprint which verifies that this has John Moses Browning linkless Barrel design. It seems that on the later model letter "G" designated serial number varients they also used the Smith & Wesson model 59 rotating Barrel design as well.
This Hi-Power was imported by K.B.I Inc. Harrisburg, PA. It's in very nice shape, the blueing is probably in 8/10 condition and the action is smooth as butter. The trigger has a tiny bit of grit in it, other than that it's really nice and nothing a little polishing won't clear up. One of the other factors that sold me on this one is that the rear sight is dovetailed and it has 3 dots on it, including the fixed front sight which means I don't have to spend any money at the gunsmith for this one.
For all intents and purposes, it's basically everything that's good and wholesome about the 1911 with John Browning's refinements and improvements he made when he designed this before he died, with no pain in the butt Barrel bushing to screw with just a break it down for cleaning. The closest comparison that I can make is it breaks down just like a Sig Sauer P226 or SP2022.