Browning Hi-Power
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Published 2024-06-20
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All Comments (21)
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The classic “wait that’s not a 1911…is it? No wait it’s not”
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Indiana Jones used a Browning Hi-Power in the Bar shoot out scene in the first movie. People tend to forget it that due to him using more revolvers then semi auto pistols.
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I knew a Canadian combat engineer who had a hi-power go off in his holster while breaching a door. Turns out the hi-power had been in service since Normandy, and had a severely shorn down firing pin. It got a good tuning up afterwards
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"I did not shoot her. It's not true. It's bulls#$%. I did not shoot her. I did not. Oh, hi-power."
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You forgot "Serpico". Gun store owner: "You expecting an army?" Frank Serpico: "No. Just a division"
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Ah yee, more guns by Browning
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Ironic how common this firearms was but has yet to be used in a lot of WW2 games.
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Not as clumsy or as random as a broomhandle C96, an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
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Interesting Fact: The Hi-Power was trialed for the French Army but it was rejected in favor of the Modèle 1935 pistol. It was however accepted into the Belgium Army as the Grande Puissance.
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Man, I love this gun. The first high-capacity handgun firing a universally used pistol cartridge and serves as a basis for modern handguns of today alongside the m1911.
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John Moses Browning passed before this could be completed. Fortunately he had a protege to Saive the project and finish it. 😅
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The very first firearm I ever baught in 1994 was a Browning Hi Power. Still own & shoot it regularly today. In my opinion the best pistol ever. Thanks Johnny & keep up the great videos.👍
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When I think of a pistol, I picture a Browning Hi-Power
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Another fact. The Browning Hi- Power is still being made in India. In fact this was the first pistol to be used by Indian Army as previously revolvers were being used as a sidearm by our army. Also this is a standard issue pistol for most of the State Police departments. And India acquired the tooling to make this pistol from the same factory in Canada you mentioned.
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Honorable mention: The various dramatized versions of the 1980 Iran Embassy Hostage Rescue in London. The SAS did love their Hi-Powers with extended mags back then... Also shown in another similar (and great!) SAS movie, Who Dares Wins/Final Option (1982).
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Minor correction, FN did not resume production of the Browning High Power. The FN High Power is almost completely rebuilt. It has a standard FN taken lever and has been reinforced to withstand +P loads. It also has ambidextrous controls and uses proprietary 17 round magazines that do not work with Brownings and vice versa.
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The Browning Hi Power is perfectly made, for an archeologist who’s fighting Nazis in Nepal.
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Also one of Indiana Jones guns, perhaps his least iconic. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, he pulls a hi-power out of his bag after firing all six rounds from his 1917 revolver. Considering the movie takes place in 1936, it must have been a very early gun.
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my husband’s 3rd pistol in his collection his top pistol is a Cz-75 2nd a South African Licensed Beretta and this 3rd is this wonderful pistol.
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l have owned several Hi-Powers but always went back to the 1911's.....Thanks JJ my friend...... Old F-4 II Shoe🇺🇸
