Inglis Pistol Photo Gallery - please join in
- Thread starter Tom E Gun
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Lee Enfield
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Republic of Alberta
It's almost certainly a 0T### double serial number gun renumbered by adding a 1 prefix
Does it have a long dust cover, or a short dust cover?
So Inglis started making hi powers in 1944? I might be off on that but i'm curious to know why you don't see any FN hi powers that were in service with the British, Canadians, etc before Inglis started making them. I would think one would pop up on the EE from time to time but i've never seen one.. Can anyone comment on that or does anyone own a FN Hipower pistol that was supposedly used in WW2 that they could post pictures of?
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Because there weren't any!
Don't forget, the High Power design wasn't finalized until 1935 and the FN plant fell to the Nazis in 1940
There were plenty of orders from various countries and only around 70000 HPs were produced before the war but none went to Canada or Britain - thats not to say they weren't used by allies, just not officially
And, if it weren't for the Chinese ordering High Powers from FN before the war started, it is quite possible that the Inglis High Power may never have been born!
- Location
- WMU247 near Edmonton
Well my FN BHp has waffenmants stamped on it.
I don't think any were used by the allies
montanaslim
New member
- Location
- Nanaimo, Vancouver Island
Query about some of the photes in your Inglis Photo Gallery.
Hi,
I have recently been asked by a friend about a Hi-Power shoulder stock that looks exactly like the one in your pictures. I am wondering if yours is an original or a reproduction. The one I have here has no markings on it except for a JI on the tang where it attaches to the pistol and possibly on the side where the grip would stick out, what looks like it could be a stamped "C". However it also looks like it could be a strategically placed ding. Until I found your post, all of the pictures I have found show very pronounced military markings on the stocks. We also found a canvas holster like the one your tangent sighted pistol is lying on. Just not so clean and pretty as yours! Thanks for any extra information you can share on this.
Brian
Hi,
I have recently been asked by a friend about a Hi-Power shoulder stock that looks exactly like the one in your pictures. I am wondering if yours is an original or a reproduction. The one I have here has no markings on it except for a JI on the tang where it attaches to the pistol and possibly on the side where the grip would stick out, what looks like it could be a stamped "C". However it also looks like it could be a strategically placed ding. Until I found your post, all of the pictures I have found show very pronounced military markings on the stocks. We also found a canvas holster like the one your tangent sighted pistol is lying on. Just not so clean and pretty as yours! Thanks for any extra information you can share on this.
Brian
I have 2 original wood holster/stocks. One has no markings except for the JI on the on the pistol slot catch, just like you described. I have heard that the "Made in Canada" stamp was only added to stocks that were exported to the US. I have been told that the metal to wood fit on the reproduction stocks is poor and that that is the main way to identify them, although I have not seen a reproduction stock myself.
