Browning Hi-Power Question...

JRiggs

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Just wondered if Hi Powers have always had the magazine disconnect safety. If anyone has that info, I would appreciate it.
 
I sprayed my HP trigger pin and associated assembly with CLP Break free and let it sit overnight.

The next day I removed the mag safety and taking the pins out was easy. I used a drift but only pressed the pins out with finger power, no hammer, no tapping, nothing.

They just slid out.

This was on an unfired 68 T series in blue.

They won't all be so easy, but the overnight soak with the CLP should make a difference on any of them.
 
The Browning High Power did not always have a magazine-disconnect:

Magazine Safety

As currently manufactured, the High Power comes with a magazine safety. This means that when the magazine is withdrawn, the gun will not fire. The FN company put this in the gun so that if the shooter touched the trigger while inserting a magazine the gun would not fire if there was still a round in the chamber. Many owners remove this safety. It is done for two reasons. First of all, many owners want to gun to be in fireable condition without the magazine so a fresh magazine can be inserted during combat. The other reason is that the magazine safety prevents the empty magazine dropping freely out of the magazine well.

The German military during WWII, told the FN company to leave the magazine safety out. They did this so the gun would always be in fireable condition. When FN took back the factory at the end of WWII, they continued making guns without the magazine safety for a while. These guns have an "A" in the serial number prefix.

Ref: http://216.117.150.77/belg/hp35_us.html

-Mk.IV
 
Cylinder & Slide can slick up the P-35 trigger, even the ones with the magazine disconnect safety, without removing any parts.
 
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