AlaskaMike
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I couldn't agree more with this."Uh no. Not even CLOSE to the potential of the 1911. Fragile design, modest accuracy, horrendous trigger, hammer bite, slide bite, and they turn into rattle traps fairly quickly.
The front strap can’t even be checkered properly. That’s how weak and thin the frame is."
Fragile design? You've got to explain that. The High Power has an enviable record of reliable service in horrendous conditions and extremely hard military and civilian use.
Modest accuracy is a chimera. Comparing a stock 1911 design to a High Power, accuracy is generally similar from the box.
Hammer bite? I've never had a problem with hammer bite from either a 1911 or a High Power. Of course, the 1911 design is so impervious to hammer bite that there are no options for extended beavertail safeties for the 1911. Not a one can be found anywhere for sale, either as a drop in unit or a custom unit...
Yeah, the trigger on the stock P35 is generally pretty darned bad, compliments of the magazine safety. If, however, the magazine safety is pinned out (gunsmith task, generally) the trigger on the P35 can be quite nice.
Regarding checkering the front of the front strap, I've never understood the desire to checker the absolute crap out of every surface that might be touched.
The biggest reason the P35 doesn't need nilly willy checkering all over the place is because it, unlike the 1911, actually fits the average hand.
But, regarding fragility, I'll admit, you've got a point there. I've lost count of how many times I've crushed the frame on my High Power just picking it up off the shelf in the gun safe, or having it leave a chunk of slide behind when I pull it off the magnet when I use it as my living room gun.
I've had my P35 for close to 30 years. I've got probably 15,000 rounds through it, and it's as tight today as it was the day I bought it from my neighbor.
Sorry, I don't buy, in the very least, your arguments against the P35.
I was not really a Hi Power guy until I happened to buy one of the last production FN guns from CDNN Sports years ago on a whim. It has turned out to be one of my favorite handguns.
I certainly haven't put as many rounds through mine as Mike Irwin has put through his, but I have every confidence my Hi Power will last just as long as my 1911s.