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FN is reintroducing the High Power
breamfisher
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With a new, 17 rd. capacity magazine!
Simplified takedown like an FN 509!
No magazine disconnect!
Fully ambidextrous controls!
Checkered front strap!
No-bite hammer!
Note: magazines and internal parts of vintage High Powers are not compatible with the new design. MSRP $1,250.
https://taskandpurpose.com/gear-tech/fn-hi-power-pistol-production/#:~:text=These magazines are completely new,representative at SHOT Show 2022.&text=All of these features make,more practical than its predecessors.
https://gunmagwarehouse.com/blog/fn-high-power-old-is-new-classics-redefined/
https://www.guns.com/news/2022/01/19/more-on-the-new-fn-high-power-series
Simplified takedown like an FN 509!
No magazine disconnect!
Fully ambidextrous controls!
Checkered front strap!
No-bite hammer!
Note: magazines and internal parts of vintage High Powers are not compatible with the new design. MSRP $1,250.
https://taskandpurpose.com/gear-tech/fn-hi-power-pistol-production/#:~:text=These magazines are completely new,representative at SHOT Show 2022.&text=All of these features make,more practical than its predecessors.
https://gunmagwarehouse.com/blog/fn-high-power-old-is-new-classics-redefined/
https://www.guns.com/news/2022/01/19/more-on-the-new-fn-high-power-series
I'm just here for snark.
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Also, BH Spring Solutions found the dovetails of the Springfield sights to be identical to the TISAS (Turkish) Hi Power.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1plKwpL_YPwYE80NGQgNqVBTcrchPDWZl/view
"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, and speed is the economy of motion" - Scott Jedlinski
As an aside, it seems Girsan (Turkey) has released a Hi Power clone with a rail, extended beavertail, G10 grips, fiber optic front sight, and adjustable rear. Oh, and a flared mag well. All it's missing is an RMR cut, which they say they'll be bringing out.
But what FN has done is the equivalent of “updating” a Beretta 92. You take away the classic appeal and I don’t know there is much of a market for a “modern” all steel heavy high cap 9mm.
They're only 45 years or so too late.
At least when S&W revived the M&P name, they went from revolvers to ARs and bottomfeeders, so the chance of messing up accessories is a wee bit lower.
. . .and in full disclosure mode, I seem to have been burned by a bad one. . .
. . .but having toured inside it for a while, the Hi Power IME is some third-rate engineering wrapped up in some really sleek lines and good ergonomics. It's a BINO (Browning In Name Only) that's not fit to be a boil on a 1911's butt.
I've been chipping away somewhat lackadaisically on a FEG clone that I bought as a naïve youngster in the '90's because - "HEY! Hi Power! Cheap!" I think most of the stuff BH Spring Solutions is offering addresses a problem, or at least an annoyance that this gun has exhibited. Hopefully, someday, I'll have it to a point where it will reliably eject a fully mag's worth of spent cases.
The new FN appears to have done away with the external extractor that has been giving me fits. The roll pin in the slide tells me they're still using the "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?" see-saw sear actuator. Not sure what there was about the take down that needed simplifying, but OK.
Dunno. . .it's good money after bad in my opinion. Maybe time will prove me wrong.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
The Hi Power is an enthusiast's firearm.
On the FN side, I wish they had stuck more closely to the original design. It’s not really a Hi Power.
Was more capacity (making the old magazines not fit) really a plus?
You can get 15 rd. flush fit mags for the Hi Power. Well, if they're available. I know for some, 13+1 rds. of 9mm in a steel handgun is an issue.
Crazy thing is, the Imbel could be the best-running of the three, but have the lowest value.