Favorite Hi-power Clone?

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daniel craig said:
Well if things keep going the way they’re going I might have the freedom to move out of state. Maine looks nice, tons of unincorporated land too.


That said. I’m headed to the shop tomorrow to see if they still have it.
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As of yesterday they still had them. If they are still there I would buy one. If they are still there Monday I am buying both spending pics. Which for some reason they could not send me until Monday.
 
I would not hesitate to buy a FEG Hi-Power. It made me want to cry when we were clearing bunkers in Iraq back in 1991 and found several bunkers that had crates upon crates of brand new FEG Hi-Power pistols and we had to destroy all of them on the spot.
 
I had a Charles Daly High Power many years ago, shoot well but hard to get used to the v shape XS quick aim rear sight and there is no way to replace the rear sight because of the unique dovetail cut. I sold it. The huge Charles Daly roll mark on the slide was an eye sore I can ignore but hard to get use to the sight picture of the quick aim sight. I like standard square slot sight much better.
 
HankC said:
I had a Charles Daly High Power many years ago, shoot well but hard to get used to the v shape XS quick aim rear sight and there is no way to replace the rear sight because of the unique dovetail cut. I sold it. The huge Charles Daly roll mark on the slide was an eye sore I can ignore but hard to get use to the sight picture of the quick aim sight. I like standard square slot sight much better.
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The Dovetail on the rear is a Novak cut. It is one of 2 cuts. The first 500 guns were finished by the Dan Wesson and had a "HP" prefix to their serial numbers. These guns had dovetail slots set up for Novak Sights for the Browning Hi Power.

The remainder of the production run was finished by Magnum Research, had an "HPM" prefix to the serial numbers, and had slots set up for Novak Sights for the 1911 instead of for the BHP. These are the vast majority of the pistol in the market. You can directly replace them with Novak 1911 sight or Sights with a Novak 1911 cut like the ones John Harrison sells.

I can't remember off the top of my head but I think the height of the XS sight is .225 but with a 1911 sight setup you need to be at .215 with not Xs sights.
 
So I was looking at that no bite hammer and it got me wondering the people hold pistol differently back in the day so that hammer bike wasn’t a thing?
 
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I like my FEG. Bought it to hold me over until I could afford a Browning. Shot so well that I never got the Browning.
 
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My brother had his Hi-Power hard chrome plated by Ron Mahovsky at Metalife when there was a problem with the factory bluing (oddly enough I had a similar problem with the bluing on my Beretta Model 70S). After he had the work done on it the first thing everyone wanted to know was where did he get the stainless Hi-Power from!
 
daniel craig said:
So I was looking at that no bite hammer and it got me wondering the people hold pistol differently back in the day so that hammer bike wasn’t a thing?
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Those guys at the shop are piss poor at selling guns. They can't even return a phone call. Only one of them can handle a transaction leaving their shop. If they can't get back to me today I am going to pass.
 
WVsig said:
Those guys at the shop are piss poor at selling guns. They can't even return a phone call. Only one of them can handle a transaction leaving their shop. If they can't get back to me today I am going to pass.
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Their main priority is the range. That’s where most of their attention and money goes. They do enough business with the range that they don’t really need to care all that much. I really can’t say much more as I’m about to take a job at that place and I don’t wanna put anything permanent out there.
 
Have a Turk 1911 and like it a lot; fit and finish are really remarkable. Been keeping an eye open for one of their HiPos, but haven't seen a one.
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daniel craig said:
What coating is that? I like.
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That's parkerizing, very ordinary parkerizing, not as well done as you see on US WWII weapons. The gun is a clone of the Canadian Inglis High Power made by Indian Ordnance Factory. I mention it often because I am very happy with it, but this thread is really about the Charles Daly High Powers. My IOF High Power is accurate, reliable, and has a good trigger despite still having the magazine safety installed. And I got it at a good price. Only a small batch (500, maybe) were ever exported to the US. The IOF has stopped making them, I believe.

PS - Post # 18 in this thread shows not everybody had a good opinion of these Indian High Powers: https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...y-fielded-military-rifle-in-the-world.165762/
 
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I’m thinking of getting another hammer and bobbing it to protect my fat hands which apparently choke way up. Has anyone done this?
 
Monac said:
That's parkerizing, very ordinary parkerizing, not was well done as you see on US WWII weapons. The gun is a clone of the Canadian Inglis High Power made by Indian Ordnance Factory. I mention it often because I am very happy with it, but this thread is really about the Charles Daly High Powers. My IOF High Power is accurate, reliable, and has a good trigger despite still having the magazine safety installed. And I got it at a good price. Only a small batch (500, maybe) were ever exported to the US. The IOF has stopped making them, I believe.

PS - Post # 18 in this thread shows not everybody had a good opinion of these Indian High Powers: https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...y-fielded-military-rifle-in-the-world.165762/
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Love the parkerized look!
 
daniel craig said:
The local range has a Charles Daily for $375. The bore looks good like it’s hardly been shot. The outside has decent wear.

Were Charles daily’s decent clones?
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I'd buy that in a heartbeat. I'd pay you to have them ship it to my ffl.
though I'll be honest, the reagent br9 in stainless has been calling my name too......
 
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