Picked up my first Browning Hi-power

Can you please define competition for me? I would also question the idea that the 1911 was designed for target use.
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Once again, you took everything out of context. Competition? put any of the people who pay large amounts of money competing for large amounts of money or great big trophies at a desk and they will not be using a glock. Other competition? I know several people who compete in local matches with factory glocks, because that's what they want.

Talking about a revolver not being as accurate as a BHP or a 1911? I've never handled a bhp that was as accurate as my Combat masterpiece, and the smith cost far less than a browning did. The trigger on a good revolver fired SA has no take up. No slack. Pull a good revolver and it snaps.

If the BHP was as desireable as a 1911, there would be a hi power in the stores on occasion. I have never that I can recall found more than one or two on the shelves, but right now I could drive through town and find two dozen or so match ready 1911s. The general population doesn't consider the BHP to be anything but a combat gun, and even at that, how many people actually buy them? there will be a ten foot section, four shelves high, if I go to academy, devoted to polymers, but there will not be a single Hi power.

I don't EVER recall saying that the 1911 was designed as a target/competion gun at any time in any sense. I said that you can pick up target tuned 1911 handguns anywhere, and that buying a springfield semi-custom will not cost much more than a BHP. If I have to take a browning to a top level gunsmith to get a handgun that will match my K38 in smoothness and accuracy, why? If I have to do the same to beat a semicustom 1911, it seems kinda pointless.

The browning is a great gun. I like it. It is the red headed stepson, like it or not. It's not popular. In fact, I rarely hear anything good about it, most people complain about it because it's not something else. If I went into any of the gun shops around here and asked around, (as I have frequently) customers wouldn't know what one was. They couldn't recognize one. They wouldn't care. It's not what they want. That doesn't mean that it's bad, it just means that thousands of people like something else. It's a reflection on the quality of the shopper, not on the product.


And I will grant you, that if you spend enough money on one, you can have a hi power with a great trigger, and it can be accurate. A match barrel and closely machined slide and frame are a great start already.
 
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My BHP is easily my most accurate pistol....not sure where they get a knock on their accuracy.
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Unless you have a stable full of very low-quality pistols aside from your Hi-Power, it's not that your Hi-Power is easily more accurate than your other semi-autos -- it's that you shoot it more accurately than those other pistols. Other high-quality mass-production semi-autos will display similar mechanical accuracy.
 
Unless you have a stable full of very low-quality pistols aside from your Hi-Power, it's not that your Hi-Power is easily more accurate than your other semi-autos -- it's that you shoot it more accurately than those other pistols. Other high-quality mass-production semi-autos will display similar mechanical accuracy.
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I agree with this but I would also add that I do not think the BHP is less accurate than its peers as others have suggested.
 
the Hi power is just as solid as any other semiauto handgun based on the same principles, as far as accuracy. The slide and barrel and the barrel lockup are absolutely as solid as anything else. There really are not any genuine reasons that you couldn't for example put one on a ransom rest and equal or beat nearly anything in the same price/quality range.

I have heard so many people also knocking on 9mm ammo as being inherently inaccurate.

!?

I can see where it may be a bit harder to get optimal accuracy out of the ammo for some assorted reasons, but I do not at all believe that the 9mm is inherently inaccurate.

In fact, my father in law told me I'd have to be an absolute moron to buy the hi power.

"Inaccurate, weak, fragile, and a 9mm! 9mm can't hit the broad side of a barn!"

The only thing I didn't like about them was the trigger linkage, it seemed a bit less than perfect.
 
My MK III Browning Hi Power is my most accurate centerfire pistol. At least I shoot it the most accurately.
 
You have a MKIII with the older half moon sights so you would have to mill the sight in order to replace the front sight. Most smiths a can do it for you. Novak does great work and will not have to refinish the to do it.
 
I have carried several BHPs in my LEO career, started in 1975. No better tribute to a handgun than to be a cop's duty handgun.
 
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