Lets see your HiPowers!

[Stewitz]

New to the fourum and also just acquired a Browning HiPower. Only had it to the range once so far, really like the gun and can’t wait to get back to the range. I’ll post a picture of mine once I figure out how to lol

So Let’s see some HiPowers!

 

[jeff270]

Diggin up the old pic

 

[dan belisle]

Mine. - dan

 

[Harry Callahan]

See here:

https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1473151-Show-your-Hi-Power-s!

 

[TheTooner]

Mine looks like jeff270's and Dan Belisle's.

 

[Bartok5]

My MkIII with a home-brewed Cerakote job.

My typical Inglis 5T series

 

[Bksrt8]

Are the hi powers much different than a 1911? They look very similar, but could certainly be alot different inside...just curious

 

[dan belisle]

Are the hi powers much different than a 1911? They look very similar, but could certainly be alot different inside...just curious

Different lock mechanism, chambered for smaller cartridges, uses double stack mags, no grip safety on the HP, though it does have a mag safety. - dan

 

[Bksrt8]

Right on, thanks for the info!

 

[OldDude]

Different lock mechanism, chambered for smaller cartridges, uses double stack mags, no grip safety on the HP, though it does have a mag safety. - dan

The HP's trigger/sear mechanism is different than the 1911's as well.

 

[haim]

 

[TheTooner]

Are the hi powers much different than a 1911? They look very similar, but could certainly be alot different inside...just curious

They had to be different. Browning designed the 1911 but Colt owned the design. The HiPower came about because FN asked him for a design that would basically work like the 1911 but in 9mm with a larger magazine capacity (because the French army was asking for the larger capacity.) He had to come up with mechanisms different enough from the 1911 to not infringe on the Colt-held patents.

 

[Bksrt8]

Oh ok, so basically they look similar and thats where the similarities end then.
Thanks for the response, im a big fan of history and thats taught me to question EVERYTHING, even when its not about history lol

 

[NAA]

My pair of MkIII's.... one in 9mm the other in .40 S&W....



The 9mm...

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NAA.

 

[Horilka]

They had to be different. Browning designed the 1911 but Colt owned the design. The HiPower came about because FN asked him for a design that would basically work like the 1911 but in 9mm with a larger magazine capacity (because the French army was asking for the larger capacity.) He had to come up with mechanisms different enough from the 1911 to not infringe on the Colt-held patents.

Above is completely incorrect information.
1911 was designed by Browning. Colt had exclusive rights to sell Browning designs in North America, FN in Europe. Colt and FN did not own designes, they were Browning patented. FN had no real interest in Browning 1911 work, but in other projects. That is why FN didn't make any 1911 handguns though they could have.
M1935 was designed by Dieudonné Saive who used some Browning ideas, but it was mostly Saive work. FN had patent on High Power (which is never called BHP in Europe).
That is very simplified version of history. One can read more in the Anthony Vanderlinden book called "FN Browning Pistols, Side-arms that Shaped World History"

 

[Lee Enfield]

Above is completely incorrect information.
1911 was designed by Browning. Colt had exclusive rights to sell Browning designs in North America, FN in Europe. Colt and FN did not own designes, they were Browning patented. FN had no real interest in Browning 1911 work, but in other projects. That is why FN didn't make any 1911 handguns though they could have.
M1935 was designed by Dieudonné Saive who used some Browning ideas, but it was mostly Saive work. FN had patent on High Power (which is never called BHP in Europe).
That is very simplified version of history. One can read more in the Anthony Vanderlinden book called "FN Browning Pistols, Side-arms that Shaped World History"

Most of my High Powers are Ingli'

A no1mki*, a couple no2mki*, a no2mki transitional and an upgraded FEG...

I had a waa140 some time ago, but I traded it away, along with a few other Ingli'...

Actually Saive designed the GP based on Browning's patents to get around several Colt owned patents.

That's why we have the "browning tilt locking barrel" (nearly universally used today), trigger bar lever and the sear extension in the slide.

The Browning designed predecesor of the GP was striker fired, and a very different animal to a GP.

 

[sailor723]

See here:

https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1473151-Show-your-Hi-Power-s!

Thanks for posting that old thread Harry Callahan. Lots of good pics there but too bad about the photobucket ones being gone. That's a problem across many internet forums when you start digging into old threads.

I wonder if the guy with the crushed guide rod loop ever figured it out? Other than the guide rod being installed upside down is there any another common explanation?

Good explanation of the upside down guide rod issue here

https://forums.1911forum.com/showthread.php?t=761674

I had the loop get crushed/deformed in my .40S&W MkIII one time but it was definitely not installed the upside down...... never did figure out what happened.

 

[Stewitz]

Some beauty looking HiPowers!

The Cerakote Job looks great Bartok5. I was thinking in doing my Hipower mark 3 this winter. Would you recommend it?

Also I’m a Noob here and don’t know how to figure out how to post a picture...

 

[buckaroo]

My pride an joys

 

[whiskybravo]

Simply Stunning!