Interessant!

I like the 35 better

There is no such thing as a MkI High Power. The WWII military and following civilian versions were the T and C series pistols. The MkII that came in increased the overall size of the pistol along with the rest of the changes they made, including to the safety. It has always amused me when people post/say that they found the safety on the T and C series High Powers hard to manipulate. We trained thousands of soldiers to operate and use the T series pistols with that original safety; never once did I encounter a man (or in my last 20 years, a woman) who had difficulty with that safety. Perhaps because we didn't train them to stab at the safety with the end of their thumb, but to instead disengage the safety with the inside of the joint of their thumb. One thing I like about that safety is that you can wrap your thumb right over it and not even feel it under your grip - something you can't do with the later safeties and especially not with paddle style safeties.

@ThrowingCopperCRA-2022

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comments man. That's how we all learn, by sharing knowledge, ideas and experiences.

@AirborneMOC031

2 ай бұрын

@@ThrowingCopperCRA-2022 Just relating corporate knowledge. One thing that slightly amuses me about the High Power here in America. We have a neighbor to our north, allies throughout the world, etc who issued and carried this pistol for almost 80 years. And yet, rather than asking them something like "How do you guys teach your troops how to properly and efficiently use this weapon", so many of our gun experts just head off and make it up as they go. I don't think one in ten of the American gun community's gun experts who pontificate on the High Power know how to fire the weapon when there isn't a magazine seated - so they tell others the magazine disconnect must be removed. There isn't a soldier in the NATO nations that carried the High Power that was unable to fire the weapon when there wasn't a magazine seated. For one thing, at the end of every training session for the day, the end of every field exercise, the pistols and magazines are returned to the battalion bin rats separately - magazines go one way, pistols go towards lockup. So with the magazines handed in, how are the troops supposed to ease springs (fire the weapon) after showing the bin rats the weapon is clear by cycling the slide? They do that by firing the weapon - with no magazine anywhere near them. Because that's one of the very first things they were taught about the weapon.

Springfield did the SA-35 right! It’s the BEST Hi-Power ever produced by anybody, including FN’s original. The trigger, the manual safety, the hammer, the lack of magazine disconnect, everything. …and I own four FN originals too!

@ThrowingCopperCRA-2022

3 ай бұрын

I cannot disagree with you. I've always wanted to like the HP35 and owned several but always got hammerbite when I shot them. The SA35 and the Girsan Match, no hammerbite, love them.

@AirborneMOC031

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, except for all that they didn't get right. Including choosing to copy the later and slightly larger MkII and MKIII pistols. Should have copies the much more svelte and better in the hand prior versions of High Power. Anyone who honestly believes this is a better handgun than FN's original T and C series is flagging themselves as somebody who does more collecting than they spend time on a range shooting. The sights are nicer than the original adjustables, and certainly better than the fixed military originals - but it doesn't take much to change those sights back then, just like it doesn't to replace the sights on this gun with Dawson or Novaks if you don't like them either. And if you can't figure out how to efficiently use the original safety, replacement larger safeties have been offered for sale since before I purchased my C series in the early 1970's. I often wonder how often a little cleaning of the safety mechanism might help those having difficulties with the original. Trained hundreds of troops on those earlier HPs with the small pistol - never once encountered a woman, much less a man, who struggled to manipuate the safety. But those pistols were regularly maintained by the gun plumbers, including a throughout First Line Maintenance inspection and servicing once a gear. That included the safety. All of those military High Powers had 5 lb. or thereabouts trigger pulls, despite having The Evil Magazine Disconnect That Will Get You Killed still in place. Amazing what some training and firing of a new firearm can do for it's action. There must be a reason why the British SAS, FBI Hostage Rescue Team, infantry forces of the world, etc decided they'd just leave that magazine disconnect alone and in place rather than deciding to specify that it be removed. Dummies didn't realize what kind of danger they were putting themselves in by leaving it in there? I'm all in favor of the concept gun owners should set their handguns up whatever way allows them to shoot best and gives them the most confidence in the gun if they're carrying. But any claim that a High Power with the magazine disconnect is somehow or other a flawed weapon is amusing in the face of how law enforcement and the military have chosen to carry it for decades.

@AirborneMOC031

2 ай бұрын

@@ThrowingCopperCRA-2022 Most/many of the original T and C series FN High Powers were sent to market with rowel hammers. I have read a few times that Browning's USA market expected customers to want a spur hammer similar to that on the military 1911. All of my HP's since my first one purchased in the early 1970s were purchased new, and all had rowel hammers. So I don't know whether I would be among the ones who get bitten or not. Over the years - especially since the web and forums arrived with the information highway - shooters who have had problems with the hammer biting them have installed a rowel hammer in place of the spur hammer and fixed their problem that way. An easy fix - other than purchasing a hammer. Others simply did a short bob job on the existing spur hammer.