I love my HP. One of the last made in Belgium before they moved production to Portugal. Shoots like a dream.
Always wanted one.
Grip was a little too big for my liking. Shot well though.
But not as well as my 1911.
My favorite, had 22 of them at one time all pre 1983’s in 9-mm and 30 Luger. The only new one I have is chambered in 357 Sig that NOVAK did for me using a 40 cal.
My favorite handgun! I bought my first at the base exchange on Okinawa back in 1968 after the USA riots. A single action 6 shot didn’t get it.
Had to sell it 10 years later to keep from starving, and when things got better, got another 1968 Belgian Browning I used as the house gun for years.
Now it is too valuable to shoot so I went to a EAA version of the Cz75 which was snazzy but way too big for my hand, so I traded it for an almost perfect 1903-A3 Springfield.
Now I have settled on an EAA SARB6P polymer frame version of the CZ 75, but IT feels much like a Browning (thinner grip), and it holds 15 shots. It is 1/2 what a new BHP costs.
NO, MY BHP IS NOT FOR SALE!
My Browning High-Power is the first gun I purchased.I bought it (paid for it)just before my 21st,and(after the waiting-period),I collected it.It’s the finest pistol I have ever owned(aside from my 1911’s).It was superbly crafted(and assembled)at Fabrique Nationale,Herstal,Belgium.There is NO finer 9mm Parabellum than The Browning!!
I had one up until a few yrs ago...
I know only have .40 cal or .45 cal. in the home armory...
I carry a 1911 Springfield - can’t beat it...
Malcolm X favored it.
“The Hi-Power was a part of nearly every world conflict of the 20th century. On both sides.”
Not really, because the pistol did not become available until 1935. It missed the Boer war, the Sudan War, the First World War, the Italian Ethiopian invasion, the Japanese-Russian war, and others the Mexican revolution and the U.S. intervention into Mexico... I need not continue.
Of course, the author said “world conflict” if we accept that as meaning world war, then it was involved in half of them.
I considered it acceptable literary hyperbole. The Hi Power is a great pistol, widely accepted.
I like my 2 :-)
John Moses Browning was a true genius.