Springfield Armory and Hi-Power?

[WebSnyper]

Seems no one makes stick on rubber base pads for double stack metal magazines anymore

Pachmayr used to make these,but no longer since they got bought out by Lyman

What if anything are you guys doing to protect magazine base plates on these meal base mags? Anyone out there 3d printing something like this?

Pachmayr Magazine Bumper Kit For Browning Hi Power 02989 | iAmmo

Pachmayr rubber bumper pads protect ejected pistol magazines and make loading easier and faster. The bumper pads are supplied in sets of five. Double sided tape included. (Colt Style attaches with supplied screws).

www.iammo.com

 

[Dog1]

Seems no one makes stick on rubber base pads for double stack metal magazines anymore

Pachmayr used to make these,but no longer since they got bought out by Lyman

What if anything are you guys doing to protect magazine base plates on these meal base mags? Anyone out there 3d printing something like this?

Pachmayr Magazine Bumper Kit For Browning Hi Power 02989 | iAmmo

Pachmayr rubber bumper pads protect ejected pistol magazines and make loading easier and faster. The bumper pads are supplied in sets of five. Double sided tape included. (Colt Style attaches with supplied screws).

www.iammo.com

I would love to find some of those. I have some dense foam rubber with adhesive backing that I've been thinking about using to make my own

 

[WebSnyper]

Now I just need to see if springfield armory will make a detective version. Girsan apparently has what they are calling the PI:

Girsan MC P35 PI-OPS High Power™ - EAA Corp.

Equipped with an optic-ready slide featuring an RMS/RMSc footprint, the Girsan MC P35 PI-OPS allows you to easily attach your preferred red dot sight.

eaacorp.com

MCP35 PI: EAA to Bring in Chopped Hi-Power Clone :: Guns.com

Answering a call for a more compact version of John Browning's classic Hi-Power design, Florida-based EAA just announced it will bring in a shorter version of the new Girsan MCP35, dubbed the PI.

www.guns.com

There's an article about it also in the new American Handgunner magazine out this month.

 

[SheepDog4Life]

RKGuns delivered quickly, I must have had lucky timing on the order vs the next shipment to my store, ordered on a Saturday night, and got the email it was available for pick-up Friday afternoon... in my hands on Sunday.

They were sold out by first thing Sunday morning.

Haven't been to range yet, but I am very happy with it just oogling and dry firing. Only nit would be the trigger, it does have a slight but perceptible creep prior to the break and the reset is fairly long, light and barely audible. But also probably not being fair at all right after dry firing the 1911. Lol!

We'll see if it even matters after the range trip.

 

[drillsgt]

Apex Tactical is getting ready to release a pretty nice magwell for the HP and a line of magazines with extensions. They are working on trigger components as well.

SA-35 - Springfield®

www.apextactical.com

 

[WebSnyper]

Apex Tactical is getting ready to release a pretty nice magwell for the HP and a line of magazines with extensions. They are working on trigger components as well.

SA-35 - Springfield®

www.apextactical.com

Damn, $65 mags... Seems a bit high. I like what I can see of the base pads, but still that's a heck of a premium.

 

[drillsgt]

Damn, $65 mags... Seems a bit high. I like what I can see of the base pads, but still that's a heck of a premium.

I can see why it seems steep but for a mag and the base it's not bad, a lot of aftermarket mag extensions run 20-40.00 just by themselves plus trying to recoup some of that R&D time i'm sure. It's nice to have a drop in (at least for the SA-35) magwell available the only game in town used to be the weld on ones.

 

[WebSnyper]

I can see why it seems steep but for a mag and the base it's not bad, a lot of aftermarket mag extensions run 20-40.00 just by themselves plus trying to recoup some of that R&D time i'm sure. It's nice to have a drop in (at least for the SA-35) magwell available the only game in town used to be the weld on ones.

I didn't realize at first these were added capacity, but then the 19 rounder is also $75, I now notice.

 

[drillsgt]

I didn't realize at first these were added capacity, but then the 19 rounder is also $75, I now notice.

The lower profile 17's would be just fine for me.

 

[SheepDog4Life]

Range Report

Took the Hi-Power to the range yesterday and put ~150 rounds thru it. Functioned flawlessly. Grip felt great, pointed great. More accurate/precise than I am with open sights, 3-4 inch 15 rnd groups at 10 yards firing fast, but not "rapid"... I.e. not slow fire. Group was 3-4 inches left of center, so will take tools to drift the rear sight next time.

A little bit of hammer bite... hammer "nibble" more like it, but no "ouch" moments thanks to the rounded hammer... a hammer spur would have hurt.

Trigger break was fine, I had dry fired 2-300 times prior to going to the range and the creep in the break was gone/unnoticable. Actually shooting, the trigger break was great, especially compared to my striker fired guns I brought with...

The trigger reset was excruciatingly long and light. To the point that I pulled 3 times prior to reset. To be fair, I shot the HP first and was thinking, that's a pretty long and barely noticable reset... Then I shot the new Rock Island 1911, which has a surprisingly good trigger, better than a $475 1911 has a right to have, and after that, all my triggers seemed like ****. I even short stroked the Shield+ which I had never done before.

Even with that, the SA-35 reset was long and light.

Buddy brought his Argentine HP, and we swapped back and forth. Good times!

 

[WebSnyper]

Range Report

Took the Hi-Power to the range yesterday and put ~150 rounds thru it. Functioned flawlessly. Grip felt great, pointed great. More accurate/precise than I am with open sights, 3-4 inch 15 rnd groups at 10 yards firing fast, but not "rapid"... I.e. not slow fire. Group was 3-4 inches left of center, so will take tools to drift the rear sight next time.

A little bit of hammer bite... hammer "nibble" more like it, but no "ouch" moments thanks to the rounded hammer... a hammer spur would have hurt.

Trigger break was fine, I had dry fired 2-300 times prior to going to the range and the creep in the break was gone/unnoticable. Actually shooting, the trigger break was great, especially compared to my striker fired guns I brought with...

The trigger reset was excruciatingly long and light. To the point that I pulled 3 times prior to reset. To be fair, I shot the HP first and was thinking, that's a pretty long and barely noticable reset... Then I shot the new Rock Island 1911, which has a surprisingly good trigger, better than a $475 1911 has a right to have, and after that, all my triggers seemed like ****. I even short stroked the Shield+ which I had never done before.

Even with that, the SA-35 reset was long and light.

Buddy brought his Argentine HP, and we swapped back and forth. Good times!

I had the same experience (pulling trigger before reset) on my SA-35. Had the cylinder and slide trigger put in and seemed to help quite a bit.

 

[drillsgt]

I took mine out yesterday as well, it’s very accurate.

 

[SlowPlay]

First day out with my SA-35 was pretty much the same as SheepDog reported. Old school for sure, but very nice in my opinion.

 

[tude]

Is the Springfield exact same size as the Browning? Asking about holster interchange ability.

 

[drillsgt]

Is the Springfield exact same size as the Browning? Asking about holster interchange ability.

Yes, it's the same.

 

[Dog1]

Damn, $65 mags... Seems a bit high. I like what I can see of the base pads, but still that's a heck of a premium.

Yeah I agree that's a bit steep. I have a ton of magazines already I wouldn't mind having a few of those base pads but I'm not paying $65 a magazine to get a base pad

 

[Dog1]

I wish someone would make the hard rubber magazine bumper pads like Pachmeyer used to make for the BHP.

 

[WebSnyper]

I wish someone would make the hard rubber magazine bumper pads like Pachmeyer used to make for the BHP.

Agreed, but I can't seem to find those anywhere. Appear to have been discontinued somewhere in the process of Pachmayr being pulled into Lyman.

 

[Dog1]

Agreed, but I can't seem to find those anywhere. Appear to have been discontinued somewhere in the process of Pachmayr being pulled into Lyman.

Yeah they have I reached out to Lyman and asked them about that and they said there are no plans to resurrect those. I told them that's a shame because there's a lot of BHP owners out there that would love to have them especially with the clones coming on the market.

All I got from them was thank you for your input

 

[BigRed]

Haven't looked at SA's clone.

Is it coming with that mag safety crap to pop out?




I'm going to have to do some checking, but if I were a betting man I would bet that mag safety crap was a feature introduced by the French partner of John Moses Browning's final design.