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Browning ends production of the Hi-Power after 80 years

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It is a shame but there are more out there than I could ever afford. Almost bought a Syrian this past week. Then I found out there is an Egyptian contact too both with great crests. Plus the Nazi and Finn ones. That right there is $10k in available Hi-Powers that are all made better than today and have history behind them

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Lucky to have bought a few over the years - an inglis - a immediate post war blued and an E preifx....great guns...but value will now just go up and up
I don't have a Hi-Power yet. I will add one eventually. Maybe use my latest round of permits I will be applying for to get one. One is being used for S&W 1917 .45ACP, would like to use one on a CZ-38 with SA Stamp, and a Hi-Power sounds like a good idea for the third, or a 1934 or 1935 Beretta.

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Still have my HP from the 70's and it still is a working gun in service.  I do have polymer wonders too but the HP still has a place.  A bit heavy by todays standards and my G19 has replaced it for a go to gun.  I carried it for years when I was told to get a serious gun.  It always fed hollow points well back in the day and never hiccupped.

It now resides in a desk draw and I'm as secure with it as I ever was.

Big mistake discontinuing.

 

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Haters gonna hate.....screw those polymer wonders..... 
 
The hi power ....when guns were steel and wood and men stood to pee.
Yup now these girly men run around with plastic pistols and worry about ounces of weight.

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I was surprised when I saw that they were discontinued. I was hoping for a while that Browning would have tried to experiment and maybe modernize the Hi Power. Maybe add a rail, or even try a poly-frame with the rail.  I love the ones that I have. I have been thinking of trying out one of the Regent's that have been imported recently.

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Why do you need to modernize a perfect fighting firearm?

 

Rails....polymer......gimmicks.  :)

 

Mine have fed everything I have ever thrown at them.....not one and I mean one hiccup....

 

Perfect ergonomics......  awesome pointability.....thin.....balanced.....whats not to like !

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I was surprised when I saw that they were discontinued. I was hoping for a while that Browning would have tried to experiment and maybe modernize the Hi Power. Maybe add a rail, or even try a poly-frame with the rail.  I love the ones that I have. I have been thinking of trying out one of the Regent's that have been imported recently.

 

Please don't add rails to a Hi-Power. That is almost as bad as chopping up a Garand.

 

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10 hours ago, USRifle30Cal said:

Perfect ergonomics......  awesome pointability.....thin.....balanced.....whats not to like !

Magazine disconnect safety, low capacity, heavy and bad triggers.

 

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If it is so great, why they stop production?


Because most new firearms buyers today want tacti-cool and are worried about ounces, because they aren't man enough to carry steel and wood.


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52 minutes ago, Ray Ray said:

If it is so great, why they stop production?

Because unlike the 1911, Browning is really the only one to produce the Hi Power.  Meanwhile, 1911 designs are rampant...

Hi Power Manufacturers:
FN
Browning
Fabricaciones Militares (FM)
RFI - Rifle Factory Ishapore (Pistol Auto 9mm 1A)
FEG (Clone)
Charles Daly (Clone)
Norinco (Unlicensed Clone)


Meanwhile... 1911's are made by...
American Classic
American Tactical
A&R Sales
AMT
Armi Dallera Custom (ADC)
Armscor
Astra
ATI
Australian Precision Arms
Auto Ordnance
Briley
Brixia
Brolin Arms
Browning (reduced-size .22 and .380 copies)
Bunker Arms
Cabot
Carolina Arms
Caspian (slides and frames only)
Charles Daly
Christensen Arms
Cimarron
Citadel
CO Arms
Colt (commercial and US/foreign gov't contract from 1911 to present day)
Chiappa (.22LR 1911 copy)
Crown City
Cylinder & Slide
CZ USA
Dan Wesson
Detonics
Devel
Dlask Arms
D&L Sports
Double Star
Ed Brown
EMF
Federal Ordnance
Falcon
Firestorm
Freedom Arms
Fusion
Gemini Custom
Girsan
Griffon Combat
GSG (.22LR 1911 copy)
Guncrafter Industries
Gunsite
Hero Guns
High Standard
Imbel
Imperial Defense
Infinity
Inland Manufacturing
Interstate Arms (Regent)
Interarms
Irwindale Arms Industries (IAI)
Israeli Arms Industries (also called IAI)
Ithaca (new business located in Sandusky, OH)
Ithaca (old NY-based company, made pistols under US gov't contract 1943-1945)
Iver Johnson
Karl Lippard
Kimber
Kongsberg (M/1914 pistol manufactured in Norway under Colt license)
LAR
Les Baer
Llama
Lone Star
Magnum Research (Bul)
Maximus Custom
Metro Arms
Michigan Armament
Mitchell
MP Express
National Ordnance
Nighthawk
Norinco
North American Arms Co. Ltd. (US gov't contract in 1918, ~100 pistols assembled but not delivered)
Nowlin
Palmetto State Armory 
Para Ordnance/Para USA
Pistol Dynamics
Olympic Arms
Omega Defense
Oriskany Arms
Peter Stahl
Randall
Ranger
Reeder Custom
Regent
Remington Arms (current business)
Remington Rand (made pistols under US gov't contract 1942-1945, not affiliated with Remington Arms or Remington-UMC)
Remington-UMC (US gov't contract 1918-1919) NOTE: ~1000 replicas were made by Remington Arms and Turnbull in 2014)
Republic Forge
Roberts Defense
Rock Island Armory
Rock River Arms
Ruger
Safari Arms
S.A.M
Salient Arms
Sarco
Schroeder Bauman
Shooters Arms (Philippines)
Sig Sauer
Singer (US gov't contract, 500 pistols produced in 1941)
Sistema (aka D.G.F.M.-F.M.A.P.) (M1927 pistol manufactured in Argentina under Colt license)
Smith & Wesson
South Fork Arms/Perkins Custom
Springfield Armory (former military arsenal in MA, made M1911s from 1914-1917 under US gov't contract)
Springfield Armory (commercial business established in 1974, not associated with above)
STI
SVI
Tanfoglio
Taurus
Taylor & Co.
TİSAŞ
Turnbull Mfg.
Ultimate Arms
Unertl
Union Switch & Signal (US gov't contract, 1943)
Uselton/Ultimate Arms
USFA
Walther/Umarex (.22LR 1911 copy)
Wilson Combat
Valtro
Victory Arms
Volkman

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6 hours ago, capt14k said:

Because most new firearms buyers today want tacti-cool and are worried about ounces, because they aren't man enough to carry steel and wood.

 

But 1911s are doing well and they are bigger, heavier and are more expensive.  

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6 hours ago, Krdshrk said:

Because unlike the 1911, Browning is really the only one to produce the Hi Power.  Meanwhile, 1911 designs are rampant...

Hi Power Manufacturers:
FN
Browning
Fabricaciones Militares (FM)
RFI - Rifle Factory Ishapore (Pistol Auto 9mm 1A)
FEG (Clone)
Charles Daly (Clone)
Norinco (Unlicensed Clone)


Meanwhile... 1911's are made by...
American Classic
American Tactical
A&R Sales
AMT
Armi Dallera Custom (ADC)
Armscor
Astra
ATI
Australian Precision Arms
Auto Ordnance
Briley
Brixia
Brolin Arms
Browning (reduced-size .22 and .380 copies)
Bunker Arms
Cabot
Carolina Arms
Caspian (slides and frames only)
Charles Daly
Christensen Arms
Cimarron
Citadel
CO Arms
Colt (commercial and US/foreign gov't contract from 1911 to present day)
Chiappa (.22LR 1911 copy)
Crown City
Cylinder & Slide
CZ USA
Dan Wesson
Detonics
Devel
Dlask Arms
D&L Sports
Double Star
Ed Brown
EMF
Federal Ordnance
Falcon
Firestorm
Freedom Arms
Fusion
Gemini Custom
Girsan
Griffon Combat
GSG (.22LR 1911 copy)
Guncrafter Industries
Gunsite
Hero Guns
High Standard
Imbel
Imperial Defense
Infinity
Inland Manufacturing
Interstate Arms (Regent)
Interarms
Irwindale Arms Industries (IAI)
Israeli Arms Industries (also called IAI)
Ithaca (new business located in Sandusky, OH)
Ithaca (old NY-based company, made pistols under US gov't contract 1943-1945)
Iver Johnson
Karl Lippard
Kimber
Kongsberg (M/1914 pistol manufactured in Norway under Colt license)
LAR
Les Baer
Llama
Lone Star
Magnum Research (Bul)
Maximus Custom
Metro Arms
Michigan Armament
Mitchell
MP Express
National Ordnance
Nighthawk
Norinco
North American Arms Co. Ltd. (US gov't contract in 1918, ~100 pistols assembled but not delivered)
Nowlin
Palmetto State Armory 
Para Ordnance/Para USA
Pistol Dynamics
Olympic Arms
Omega Defense
Oriskany Arms
Peter Stahl
Randall
Ranger
Reeder Custom
Regent
Remington Arms (current business)
Remington Rand (made pistols under US gov't contract 1942-1945, not affiliated with Remington Arms or Remington-UMC)
Remington-UMC (US gov't contract 1918-1919) NOTE: ~1000 replicas were made by Remington Arms and Turnbull in 2014)
Republic Forge
Roberts Defense
Rock Island Armory
Rock River Arms
Ruger
Safari Arms
S.A.M
Salient Arms
Sarco
Schroeder Bauman
Shooters Arms (Philippines)
Sig Sauer
Singer (US gov't contract, 500 pistols produced in 1941)
Sistema (aka D.G.F.M.-F.M.A.P.) (M1927 pistol manufactured in Argentina under Colt license)
Smith & Wesson
South Fork Arms/Perkins Custom
Springfield Armory (former military arsenal in MA, made M1911s from 1914-1917 under US gov't contract)
Springfield Armory (commercial business established in 1974, not associated with above)
STI
SVI
Tanfoglio
Taurus
Taylor & Co.
TİSAŞ
Turnbull Mfg.
Ultimate Arms
Unertl
Union Switch & Signal (US gov't contract, 1943)
Uselton/Ultimate Arms
USFA
Walther/Umarex (.22LR 1911 copy)
Wilson Combat
Valtro
Victory Arms
Volkman

Why was Kahr left off the list?

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I want a gently used Hi Power! It WILL be my next pistol purchase! Can someone please tell me what I should look for in a used Hi Power? Serial range, features etc!  Thanks.
There are a lot of variations. I would say narrow it down to timeframe you are looking for first. Then military or commercial.

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