I kind of lucked into a few Hi-point carbines a few years back. My wife Shot a friends 9mm hp carbine and decided she had to have one. Unfortunately it was around the time of the last great gun panic and I couldn't find one for her that wasn't way over priced. We hit a local pawn shop and found a .40 s&w version with their (Tactical) style stock and she just had to have it. Lucky for us it had been on the shelf for a while so we got it for a steal. She about ran us out of house and home running it so I ended up having to cast and load for .40s&w. I liked shooting her's and loading for it was super cheap. We set it up with a decent little scope and tons of mags for her. The trade off for the .40 was now I get to start collecting all these Trade in pistols in .40 that are coming on the market cheap!
Skip ahead a few years and a 45acp version fell into my lap for cheap as well through a coworker and I set it up in similar fashion to hers and notw its become a favorite (albeit heavy) plinker. I had already been casting and loading or 45acp fro my 1911's so it worked out.
I hadn't paid much attention to anything else they had until all the shot show video's showing that they were coming out with a 10mm version. I love me some 10mm! A GB dealer I go through got a few in for $300 shipped so I put one on layaway. I recently paid it off and had already started loading for it. I had a few days before knee surgery so I was able to get it out to the range. Such a fun round to shoot and the rifle ran through 300 rounds I had loaded up before hand. I used the same powdercoated lee 180gr tc bullet I use in her .40 carbine but over cfe pistol in 6.2gr, 7.2 grs and the max loading of 7.6gr. The gun ran great. The Gel pad on the cheek weld kinda sucks but i'll figure something out with that. But man does it ever rock the steel at 80 yards with irons! I'd like to maybe build a 10mm ar just for the heck of it after running this.
I'm really happy with all three of these carbines. I know they aren't most folks cup of tea but I am glad I have them. They are fun to reload for and have no issues running anything you can through at them. I think we have about $700 into all of them as they sit.
Skip ahead a few years and a 45acp version fell into my lap for cheap as well through a coworker and I set it up in similar fashion to hers and notw its become a favorite (albeit heavy) plinker. I had already been casting and loading or 45acp fro my 1911's so it worked out.
I hadn't paid much attention to anything else they had until all the shot show video's showing that they were coming out with a 10mm version. I love me some 10mm! A GB dealer I go through got a few in for $300 shipped so I put one on layaway. I recently paid it off and had already started loading for it. I had a few days before knee surgery so I was able to get it out to the range. Such a fun round to shoot and the rifle ran through 300 rounds I had loaded up before hand. I used the same powdercoated lee 180gr tc bullet I use in her .40 carbine but over cfe pistol in 6.2gr, 7.2 grs and the max loading of 7.6gr. The gun ran great. The Gel pad on the cheek weld kinda sucks but i'll figure something out with that. But man does it ever rock the steel at 80 yards with irons! I'd like to maybe build a 10mm ar just for the heck of it after running this.
I'm really happy with all three of these carbines. I know they aren't most folks cup of tea but I am glad I have them. They are fun to reload for and have no issues running anything you can through at them. I think we have about $700 into all of them as they sit.