Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

FN High Power Review

Tam has a review of the new FN High Power.

I'll stick with the classic Hi Power, but not out of a sense of nostalgia. I live in a state that bans high-capacity magazines, so a classic Hi Power means having three rounds less than a classic magazine. The new High Power's magazines hold seventeen rounds; so it's a bigger, heavier gun for carrying ten rounds in its magazine.

But, to be frank, I'm just going with a 1911 with Wilson ETM magazines, since the magazine limits negate the "more BBs" advantage of a 9mm.

3 comments:

Old NFO said...

Nothing wrong with .45s they may be old, slow, and fat, but they get the job done!

Jones, Jon Jones said...

This is where I get lost:
The Browning Hi-Power is a single-action, semi-automatic pistol available in the 9×19mm Parabellum and .40 S&W calibers. It was based on a design by American firearms inventor John Browning, and completed by Dieudonné Saive at FN Herstal. Browning died in 1926, several years before the design was finalized. FN Herstal initially named the design the "High Power", which alludes to the 13-round magazine capacity, almost twice that of other designs at the time, such as the Luger or Colt M1911.

During World War II, Belgium was occupied by Nazi Germany and the FN factory was used by the Wehrmacht to build the pistols for their military, under the designation "9mm Pistole 640(b)".[7] FN Herstal continued to build guns for the Allied forces by moving their production line to a John Inglis and Company plant in Canada, where the name was changed to "Hi Power". The name change was kept even after production returned to Belgium.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browning_Hi-Power

Comrade Misfit said...

In this country, “Hi Power” = P-35, aka GP-35.

“High Power” is the quasi-lookalike FN now makes.