I love my HP. One of the last made in Belgium before they moved production to Portugal. Shoots like a dream.
Mine is 60’s vintage Belgium.
Saw they were going out of production and that a local gun shop had ‘em on sale. So I figured I’d pick one up. Then the salesman hit me with this offer: Buy two and get each one for half price. MUCH better then the sales price, but a lot more then I wanted to spend. Damn, I hate when that happens! Got one in 9mm and one in .40cal. Still got ‘em, NIB, unfired after what? Fifteen years? Never got them to a smith for the work I wanted done. Someday...
I had a clone made in Hungary, well I did until that incident in the desert with an unmarked mine shaft. I compared the clone to a Belgium made that my Brother had and could discern no difference, parts interchanged smoothly and both shot very well. Of course if I could have afforded a genuine Belgium made I would have, but for $150 the FEG was an excellent gun.
I STILL love my Brownings.