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To: M1903A1

The Browning Hi-Power should handle the hot rounds as well as anything.

Back in the 70’s the government had the HP White firm test all handguns for safety. These tests including shooting a lot of proof level loads.

The tests were clearly too difficult to pass, probably on purpose. I do recall the Browning Hi-Power was one of the few to make it through with no damage.


19 posted on 01/10/2013 5:46:36 PM PST by yarddog (One shot one miss.)
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To: yarddog

Thinking back, I remember an account from somebody who was detailed to inspect a large lot of WW2-vintage Inglis High-Powers that were surplussed from Britain in the 1980s. Out of something like 10,000 well-used pistols, the number they had to scrap for serious defects was...four. Another hundred needed new extractors...and that was about it.


44 posted on 01/11/2013 8:30:57 PM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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