GUNS Magazine January 1957

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Hi-Power 9 mm automatic with thumb safety and notched slide front end has typical Browning look but shows many changes from earlier design. THIRTEEN SHOTS IN. HANDLE GIVE BIG BROWNING TOP FIREPOWER PLUS PUNCH, RUGGED DEPENDABILITY AND ACCURACY BUT PISTOL IS NOT YET APPRECIATED BY GENERAL RUN OF AMERICAN HANDGUN SHOOTERS AUTOMATIC
By ALEC S. MACTAVISH '- , . ' F THE expression had not been used a century before Â¥'fo the Henry rifl, the Browning Hi-Power handgun would qualify easily as "the gun you load on Sunday and shoot all week." Packed into the handle of the Belgian automatic is a double-tier magazine holding no less than 13 rounds of 9 mm ammunition. With one in the chamber, this makes almost twice the fire power of any other military - pistol with a standard clip. The Belgians named it well when they called it G.P.- pistolet de Grande Puissance-high powered pistol. The name fits. The Browning Hi-Power, a prized trophy of the war, chosen by Canadian paratroopers as their service arm, remains today one of the most accurate pistols for civilian shooters. And if the Pentagon ever pensions off the present .45 auto, they could do much worse then pick the Browning, which is already the standard handgun of Belgium, Britain; and Canada. Why does a handgun, never made in the US. and known mainly to the gun bugs and small arms experts, aspire to the laurels worn by Colt and Smith & Wesson for-genera- sports writer Alee Mactavish holds Browning Hi-Power stiff- lutabes where he has shot winning scores with big reworked pistol. - Peculiar twist of Browning's kick is not objectionable as oversized grip gives shooter a secure hold to combat it. ! .. . I . , ,.= tions? The answer is simple: the ~rowning ~i-PO& is, to big automatics, what Jayne Mansfield is to uplift. In other words, it's the most! Only the military adherence to the domestic .38 and .45 caliber sidearms has kept the Browning from the high place it deserves in American popularity. Externally the Browning Hi-Power resembles the army .45 auto-pistol but the Hi-Power is way ahead of the Army .45 in design. Actually back in 1935 the Colt company had a chan'ce to make the new Browning, but turned it down. The Belgian factory, makers of other Browning pistols, produced it instead. The Hi-Power's most unusual feature is the trigger and sear linkage. The trigger works on the sear through a bar positioned in the slide over the magazine. In the trigger assembly is a hand or pawl which contacts the slide sear lever. 'This, in turn, operates the sear, which is located in about the same position as in the .45 army pistol. In spite of this roundabout design, lock time is fast. A very creditable trigger pull can be produced with a little working over. 27
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