okcorral1881
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Fantastic collection....thanks for sharing!
Part of a WWII German collection...Pics.
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Hi-Power was the last design that John Browning worked on. He was at FN for that one.
HP is double-action first round, twin-stack 13-round magazine and uses a ramp-shaped CAM for locking/unlocking, which is a definite improvement on the swinging-link used on the 1911.
Radom is a Polish design based very heavily on the Browning, also using ramp/cam for locking but with a single-stack magazine and single-action only. They have a decocking lever but no safety as we understand it. Radoms can be VERY accurate and little recoil: they are a big, heavy gun and that really soaks up the barrel-whip...... which can be a problem (if you don't like it) with the P-38 and the Luger both.
Hope this helps.
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@drm3m:
A BEAUTIFUL collection.
THANK YOU for sharing it with us.
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This thread (and a couple of others from the same fine collection) should be Sticked as a reference to what nearly-PERFECT specimens should look like.
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HP is double-action first round, twin-stack 13-round magazine and uses a ramp-shaped CAM for locking/unlocking, which is a definite improvement on the swinging-link used on the 1911.
Radom is a Polish design based very heavily on the Browning, also using ramp/cam for locking but with a single-stack magazine and single-action only. They have a decocking lever but no safety as we understand it. Radoms can be VERY accurate and little recoil: they are a big, heavy gun and that really soaks up the barrel-whip...... which can be a problem (if you don't like it) with the P-38 and the Luger both.
Hope this helps.
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@drm3m:
A BEAUTIFUL collection.
THANK YOU for sharing it with us.
.
This thread (and a couple of others from the same fine collection) should be Sticked as a reference to what nearly-PERFECT specimens should look like.
.
.
Amazing pictures, amazing collection.
It saddens me that I will never be able to own a working, authentic MP-40, which is the only full auto I would ever want to own.
I'm very jealous and happy that those beautiful pieces of history have such a good home. Thanks for sharing.
It saddens me that I will never be able to own a working, authentic MP-40, which is the only full auto I would ever want to own.
I'm very jealous and happy that those beautiful pieces of history have such a good home. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks very much for all the kind comments regarding my collection.
smellie, thanks for adding your comments regarding Browning’s involvement with FN and the development of the Hi-Power
In answer to your question ‘gaff’, I have not added any pieces to my German WWII collection in a number of years, and I doubt that I will in the future….but I guess that one can never know for sure.
JRW (QOR) Re the STG 44.
In 2005 I purchased the Steyr assembled MP44 which is deactivated ‘#### & click’.
In 2006 I tripped over this Erma assembled MP44 and decided that I needed it?????
It is a CA. I may have been influenced to buy it because my MP40 is also an Erma assembled gun and also a CA. (I am not sure that was a good reason to have bought it?)
joe n
You asked about the K98. (Purchased in 2004)
This is the only K98 that I own…it is a Mauser 1941 Portuguese Contract rifle.
I wanted to find a matching K98…and this is where I ended up.
Like many of these guns that came into Canada it is profusely marked on the gun and on the stock and is in pretty nice condition…as most of them are.
David
smellie, thanks for adding your comments regarding Browning’s involvement with FN and the development of the Hi-Power
In answer to your question ‘gaff’, I have not added any pieces to my German WWII collection in a number of years, and I doubt that I will in the future….but I guess that one can never know for sure.
JRW (QOR) Re the STG 44.
In 2005 I purchased the Steyr assembled MP44 which is deactivated ‘#### & click’.
In 2006 I tripped over this Erma assembled MP44 and decided that I needed it?????
It is a CA. I may have been influenced to buy it because my MP40 is also an Erma assembled gun and also a CA. (I am not sure that was a good reason to have bought it?)
joe n
You asked about the K98. (Purchased in 2004)
This is the only K98 that I own…it is a Mauser 1941 Portuguese Contract rifle.
I wanted to find a matching K98…and this is where I ended up.
Like many of these guns that came into Canada it is profusely marked on the gun and on the stock and is in pretty nice condition…as most of them are.
David
Actually, the Hi-Power is not DA for the first round, it's single-action only like the 1911. There are some modern HP variants that are DA/SA, but no WW2 era guns were.
Also, Browning only designed SOME of the Hi-Power, basically the frame and some parts of the slide. Most of the action work and the toggle-less cam were designed by Dieudonne Saive, as was the double-stack magazine.
It is fair to say Saive did more work to invent the Hi-power than JMB did, though JMB obviously influenced Saive's work on a number of firearms.
Now to some of you, Saive will be familiar. He also designed the SAFN 49, designed the aircraft version of the M1919M2, and contributed to the design of the FN-FAL. He was a legend in his own right
This is one of the best collection that I have seen in Canada. I have seen others in Europe but, you have one fine collection. I kick myself every day for not keeping my auto to be grandfathered. I do have CA but.... They are lovely firearms!
Henry
Henry
