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Commercial Weapons => Hand Guns & Sub Guns => Topic started by: scarymike23 on January 26, 2015, 09:22:06 PM

Title: New (to me) Hi Power
Post by: scarymike23 on January 26, 2015, 09:22:06 PM
Thanks to a heads up from folks on the board I was able to pick up one of the surplus Hi-Powers that Numrich was offering earlier this month. Finally got a chance to go get it from my FFL today. Sorry for the crummy cellphone photos - I'll have time to get some better ones in the next week or so. This is my second surplus Hi-Power. Last year I snagged a handpicked one from AIM. Here's the new arrival:

(http://i.imgur.com/k67n9MJ.jpg)

Here it is with its brother. Newest one is on top:

(http://i.imgur.com/Heyq83V.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/jSWC7PH.jpg)

The finish might be a tad bit rougher than the AIM specimen but it was also $100+ less expensive! Insides look great & the bore is beautiful. There's a bit of corrosion on one of the grip screws but beyond that there's no rust. If it's anything like my other Hi-Power it'll shoot like a dream. At right around $330 this feels a little like theft :)

More pics and a range report to come!
Title: Re: New (to me) Hi Power
Post by: Adam7 on January 26, 2015, 09:29:42 PM
Really hard for me to see serial.. But it looks like PX?  1983?  Very nice pick up!! 
Title: Re: New (to me) Hi Power
Post by: scarymike23 on January 26, 2015, 09:50:55 PM
Thanks! Yeah, I wasn't giving the SNs much love in those pics. The one from Numrich is a PR so that's an '87. The one from AIM is a PT, putting it at '86.
Title: Re: New (to me) Hi Power
Post by: Dannyboy53 on January 26, 2015, 09:52:40 PM
Very nice score scary...can hardly wait for the range report!
Title: Re: New (to me) Hi Power
Post by: Loose}{Cannon on January 26, 2015, 11:31:43 PM
Dang nice.... you going for all 1980s years?   :)
Title: Re: New (to me) Hi Power
Post by: running-man on January 26, 2015, 11:59:24 PM
Posts like this kinda make me wish I'd have pulled the trigger on these...but heck, who am I kidding, RM only buys junk guns!  chuckles1

Nice score Mike!  thumb1 (you might have to sell a mosin or two to make room for it in the safe!)
Title: Re: New (to me) Hi Power
Post by: scarymike23 on January 27, 2015, 12:16:23 AM
Quote from: Loose}{Cannon on January 26, 2015, 11:31:43 PM
Dang nice.... you going for all 1980s years?   :)

Hah! Not unless they get as cheap as Type 53s!

Quote from: running-man on January 26, 2015, 11:59:24 PM
Posts like this kinda make me wish I'd have pulled the trigger on these...but heck, who am I kidding, RM only buys junk guns!  chuckles1

Nice score Mike!  thumb1 (you might have to sell a mosin or two to make room for it in the safe!)

Good point! Oooooor..... I could just ship one of them to you.  wink1
Title: Re: New (to me) Hi Power
Post by: Phosphorus32 on January 27, 2015, 02:41:59 PM
Nice score!  I really like the looks of those.  Glad you and Adam managed to get them before they evaporated from the Numrich warehouse. 

RM definitely needs a Mosin.  I think a beaver-chewed-driftwood-stocked T53 would look good next to his T56s  rofl