Hi Power eye candy

[SSN Vet]

teaser alert...

I'm almost done with this build and so far I'm very pleased with it.
Lot's of goodies inside.
I'll post full details once I wrap it up.

 

[Nature Boy]

Your pistol looks great and your target is better than mine, but I’ll blame myself for that

Stock T Series Hi Power

 

[greyling22]

teaser alert...

I'm almost done with this build and so far I'm very pleased with it.
Lot's of goodies inside.
I'll post full details once I wrap it up.

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Yes! Post about that. It looks awesome

 

[Rule3]

I like those Grips! What are they.?

I will never do anything to my stock HPs. And the Practical is good enough for me. I did take the mag safety's out.

 

[SSN Vet]

I like those Grips! What are they.?

I will never do anything to my stock HPs. And the Practical is good enough for me. I did take the mag safety's out.


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Coolhand G10 grips ordered off of Amazon. Several colors to chose from

 

[SSN Vet]

Yes! Post about that. It looks awesome

• Garthwait trigger (first one I've ever fitted)
• C&S Type 2 skeleton Commander Hammer
• EGW sear
• Sear angle and relief angle stoned, Hammer hooks polished, squared and mated to sear.
• C&S 24# reduced power hammer spring
• Browning sear spring... rounded and polished contact surfaces
• reduced power (three loop) trigger reset spring
• 18.5 # recoil spring
• Reduced power firing pin spring
• extended slide stop/release
• KRD (Argentine military contract) 17 rd mags, with MecGar follower and Wollfe spring.
• Mecgar 15 rd mags with Mecgar aluminum +2 extension plates and Wolffe +power springs
• FN MK3 ambi-safety lever
• Coolhand G10 grips

 

[SSN Vet]

I still need to machine a ledge in the safety lever, tig weld on extended tab and shape to desired feel, then re-blue with cold blue

 

[SSN Vet]

I like those Grips! What are they.?

I will never do anything to my stock HPs. And the Practical is good enough for me. I did take the mag safety's out.


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I like the Practical a lot and think the 2 tone looks great.

I'm a hobby gunsmith and machinist, so half the fun for me is tinkering.

Ditching the mag. disconnect, cleaning up the trigger and increasing the capacity to 17+1 is must do work for my HPs

 

[Rule3]

I like the Practical a lot and think the 2 tone looks great.

I'm a hobby gunsmith and machinist, so half the fun for me is tinkering.

Ditching the mag. disconnect, cleaning up the trigger and increasing the capacity to 17+1 is must do work for my HPs

All I did to my blued versions was take out the mag disconnect.

 

[Rule3]

I had to look up your pistol. Was not aware of this Tisas version. The HP design is one of the best ever.
Now SA is making one.

Found this article.

https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/tested-tisas-regent-br9-hi-power-pistol/

 

[Reinz]

Paging WVSig for some amazing Hi Power eye candy.

 

[WVsig]

teaser alert...

I'm almost done with this build and so far I'm very pleased with it.
Lot's of goodies inside.
I'll post full details once I wrap it up.

View attachment 1037003

• Garthwait trigger (first one I've ever fitted)
• C&S Type 2 skeleton Commander Hammer
• EGW sear
• Sear angle and relief angle stoned, Hammer hooks polished, squared and mated to sear.
• C&S 24# reduced power hammer spring
• Browning sear spring... rounded and polished contact surfaces
• reduced power (three loop) trigger reset spring
• 18.5 # recoil spring
• Reduced power firing pin spring
• extended slide stop/release
• KRD (Argentine military contract) 17 rd mags, with MecGar follower and Wollfe spring.
• Mecgar 15 rd mags with Mecgar aluminum +2 extension plates and Wolffe +power springs
• FN MK3 ambi-safety lever
• Coolhand G10 grips

Looks good. The Garthwaite trigger is the best aftermarket trigger on the market. The Yost trigger is on the same level but he does not sell stand alone parts. The EGW sear is a solid choice. How do you like the KRD mags. I personally am not a fan of the look of the base plate. It makes the gun look bottom heavy and adds bulk as a carry gun so I did not keep the one example I had. Do they run reliably?

Do you use a sear and hammer jig or do it free hand?

 

[WVsig]

Paging WVSig for some amazing Hi Power eye candy.

Don't want to steal the OPs thunder. He does his own work. I don't for the most part. LOL

 

[SSN Vet]

I designed and fabricated my own jigs for the sear and hammer.

My sear jig works great, and I've used it on FN stock, C&S and EGW sears... so the sear geometry seems pretty consistent (at least where it matters).

 

[SSN Vet]

My hammer jig works OK, but needs to be revised. There's a lot more variation in hammer geometry out there.

 

[SSN Vet]

KRD mags are kind of a mixed bag. Spring is stiff as #e@& and the follower is a stamped metal thing. I have two. One has always worked 100% without flaw. On the other one, the follower binds sometimes.

Note that the spring geometry is a bit different on these. It's longer, bent differently at the ends and has thicker wire gage.

So on the bad one, I put in a Mecgear 15 round follower and a (standard length) Wolff +P spring. This is working reliably, but I can only get 16 rounds into it for some reason.

When compared to my CZ 75, the overall "handle" length of the BHP with the extension is only a little longer than that of the CZ with no extension.

I figure that people use and accept mag extensions on 1911s all the time (i.e. Wilson Combat and Tripp), so why not on the BHP?

I'm just putting the "Grande" back in the Grande Puissance

 

[SSN Vet]

The reason I got the Tisas and what I really like about it is that it is stainless.... and the quality of the machining on the slide and frame is quite excellent.

To my knowledge, there has only been one other BHP made in stainless, and that was a small batch run of fully CNC machined (from billet) guns made by Elite Warrior... and these sold for ~$3K+

And now it looks like Tisas is focusing on arms production for the Turkish military, and we may not see any more Regent BR9s imported for a long, long time (if ever).

So I got a custom stainless BHP clone for $540 + a couple hundred for parts and my labor (of love).

 

[Nature Boy]

Very cool what you're doing @SSN Vet

I'm holding out hope that Springfield offers a polished stainless model of their SA-35 in the future.

 

[SSN Vet]

I'm holding out hope that Springfield offers a polished stainless model of their SA-35 in the future.

That would be nice... I think it depends on how their sales go. I've got one of the matte blue (Phosphate?) finished ones reserved at my local shop, as it will round out my HP collection nicely.

 

[WVsig]

That would be nice... I think it depends on how their sales go. I've got one of the matte blue (Phosphate?) finished ones reserved at my local shop, as it will round out my HP collection nicely.

The SA 35 is matte blue not phosphate/parkerized according to SA.

 

[Rockrivr1]

Yep, as indicated above the mag disconnect had to go. Otherwise it's an awesome shooter.