on March 11, 2010 8:48 PM
I have a fondness for the Hi-Power. Ergonomically, it's like the thing was designed specifically for me. It doesn't just fit your hand, it feels like it belongs there.
I don't know what kind of groups it can turn in at 25 yards, but I do know it's an easy gun to shoot well. It makes novice shooters better. I know it sounds weird but I've seen it with several newbies including myself. The first shot I ever made with a Hi-Power was a dead on bullseye at 15 yards. Before that I thought being laser accurate with a pistol was just something that was beyond me.
If you love 1911's though, the trigger will be less than pleasing. A lot of the complaints I hear and read about the trigger are that it's heavy and gritty. Well mine was never _that_ bad, but it wasn't great either.
After some home gunsmithing I've mine gotten mine to be tolerable, but the dang reset drives me nuts. Because of the way the trigger works on a Hi-Power the trigger must be let all the way out for it to reset. It's not too bad at the range, but if you are used to a 1911 you might have some problems shooting quickly under stress.
Well, I found a gunsmith who claims he is able to get the reset down to almost nothing, with the total travel being a tenth of an inch or less. Holy $#!+!
I'm not sure what exactly happens other than the slide gets hacked up and some steel gets silver soldered into it.
I have this aversion to hacking up guns. Whenever I see an old 1911 warhorse that's had the slide milled for target sights, and all the other doodads that we all love on our 1911's I get a little weepy inside.
But, I'm going to go through with it nonetheless, and I'm probably going to get the slide milled for target sights, and get all those other things we love on pistols. I feel a little mixed about that, but in the end it's a tool and if it makes the tool more usable then that's what counts. (It's a commercial MkIII and not historically significant so that makes it ok I guess.)
I just hope it gets back in time for Combative Pistol 2 in October.
I don't know what kind of groups it can turn in at 25 yards, but I do know it's an easy gun to shoot well. It makes novice shooters better. I know it sounds weird but I've seen it with several newbies including myself. The first shot I ever made with a Hi-Power was a dead on bullseye at 15 yards. Before that I thought being laser accurate with a pistol was just something that was beyond me.
If you love 1911's though, the trigger will be less than pleasing. A lot of the complaints I hear and read about the trigger are that it's heavy and gritty. Well mine was never _that_ bad, but it wasn't great either.
After some home gunsmithing I've mine gotten mine to be tolerable, but the dang reset drives me nuts. Because of the way the trigger works on a Hi-Power the trigger must be let all the way out for it to reset. It's not too bad at the range, but if you are used to a 1911 you might have some problems shooting quickly under stress.
Well, I found a gunsmith who claims he is able to get the reset down to almost nothing, with the total travel being a tenth of an inch or less. Holy $#!+!
I'm not sure what exactly happens other than the slide gets hacked up and some steel gets silver soldered into it.
I have this aversion to hacking up guns. Whenever I see an old 1911 warhorse that's had the slide milled for target sights, and all the other doodads that we all love on our 1911's I get a little weepy inside.
But, I'm going to go through with it nonetheless, and I'm probably going to get the slide milled for target sights, and get all those other things we love on pistols. I feel a little mixed about that, but in the end it's a tool and if it makes the tool more usable then that's what counts. (It's a commercial MkIII and not historically significant so that makes it ok I guess.)
I just hope it gets back in time for Combative Pistol 2 in October.
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