Browning ceased production of the most famous model.

The era of the legendary Hi-Power pistol is officially over. According to shootingillustrated.com, Browning has discontinued the production of one of the most famous pistols of the 20th century.

The press service of Browning indicates that Mark III guns are still available to customers, and they remain in stock with distributors. However, deliveries will not continue, and Hi-Power is no longer officially made.

Hi-Power is the latest pistol designed by the famous gunsmith John Moses Browning. After Browning’s death in 1926, the design of the gun was completed by Dieudonné Sav, the chief designer of the Belgian company Fabrique Nationale. In serial production model entered the 1935 year.

In the basic version, Hi-Power was equipped with an 13-charging magazine and was produced in the caliber 9 × 19 mm Parabellum. In addition, the gun was repeatedly upgraded and produced in other calibers. The weight of the gun is almost 900 g, length - 20 cm (with a barrel length 11,8 cm), transmits "Warspot"

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[Observer2014]

Browning ceased production of the most famous model.

Probably everyone who remembered the technology of its production simply died

[Father of a Soldier]

According to the memoirs of the participant in the execution of the royal family, Mikhail Medvedev (Kudrin), Nicholas II was killed with a shot from the browning.

[Andrey K]

Quote: Father of a soldier

According to the memoirs of the participant in the execution of the royal family, Mikhail Medvedev (Kudrin), Nicholas II was killed with a shot from the browning.

Browning - Browning is different. The article is about Hi-Power 9X19.
The royal family was shot, including from Browning 1900, 7,65 mm. In a dying testament, Medvedev-Kudrin asked his son to give Browning to Khrushchev, from whom the imperial family was killed. He died in 1964.

[cniza]

Quote: Father of a soldier

According to the memoirs of the participant in the execution of the royal family, Mikhail Medvedev (Kudrin), Nicholas II was killed with a shot from the browning.

Then was Nagan or am I confusing something?

[Andrey K]

Quote: cniza

... Then was Nagan or am I confusing something? ...

Do not confuse. Nagan was also.

[Sling cutter]

Quote: Andrey K

Do not confuse. Nagan was also.

Colleague, with all due respect! Then the weapon was completely motley.
Let's look into the future with you, we cannot fix the past, but ...., we can make the future, and with such beautiful ... "engineers", in general, respect!

[Andrey K]

Quote: Stroporez

... Let's look into the future with you ...

Persuaded a colleague. I went to look to the future

[Sling cutter]

Quote: Andrey K

Persuaded a colleague. I went to look to the future

How all the same it’s good and sincere to meet a person who understands in the army “distances”! Such individuals were also found

[Andrey K]

Quote: Stroporez

... and found such individuals ...

Lee-Enfield
In common people - "Drill"

[Sling cutter]

Quote: Andrey K

Lee-Enfield
In common people - "Drill"

he is! so that herbarium was difficult to overestimate, took the most “brilliant” and “seiko” watches with a calculator

[Andrey K]

Quote: Stroporez

...he is! so that herbarium was hard to overestimate, it took the most “brilliant” and the “seiko” clock with a calculator ...

[CAT BAIYUN]

Such individuals were also found.

Really Lee-Anfield? (Rifle No.4 Mk I)

[novel66]

Well, thank God

[Lexus]

Probably everyone who remembered the technology of its production simply died

There the cheeks on the handle were wooden - probably the “green” ones demanded to “curl up”.

[Sling cutter]

Quote: lexus

There the cheeks on the handle were wooden - probably the “green” ones demanded to “curl up”.

I saw such a trophy, the car is interesting, but because of the impossibility of replenishing the BC, it was presented to the pilot of the glorious MI-8 in exchange for chocolate, biscuits and 15 liters of alcohol.

[Andrey K]

Quote: Stroporez

... but due to the impossibility of replenishing the BC, it was presented to the pilot of the glorious MI-8 in exchange for chocolate, biscuits and 15 liters of alcohol ...

Cheaper

[Lexus]

He prudently did not voice the amount of chocolate and biscuits.

[Andrey K]

Quote: lexus

He prudently did not voice the amount of chocolate and biscuits.

Chocolate with biscuits for tea, and alcohol for business only - wipe the equipment

[BARKHAN]

Quote: Andrey K

and alcohol for business only - wipe the equipment

You can already immerse equipment in 15 liters ...

[Andrey K]

Quote: Barkhan

... You can already immerse equipment in 15 liters ...

No, you can’t immerse, microcircuits-transistors-resistors-diodes will fly
Exceptionally vaporized, breathed and rubbed

[Pereira]

To bite 15 liters of alcohol, a fair amount of biscuits will be needed.

[Baloo]

Quote: Pereira

To bite 15 liters of alcohol, a fair amount of biscuits will be needed.

Biscuits for children, alcohol equipment.

[Freeman]

Quote: Balu

Quote: Pereira

To bite 15 liters of alcohol, a fair amount of biscuits will be needed.

Biscuits for children, alcohol equipment.

Thin ... ik ... layer ...

[Fedorov]

Wipe optical axes

[Sling cutter]

Quote: Andrey K

Cheaper

Duc, the public demanded a HOLIDAY! And what else was to take from our valiant Soviet ace? He still offered high fur boots, but this is an individual thing, and rats aren’t accepted in our troops
so I had to celebrate with the pilots

[Lexus]

"Flyers" are too strong in terms of drinking. I won’t be surprised if you “eliminated” the entire can in one sitting, and they safely departed in the morning.

[novel66]

fly away a little - the main thing is to sit down!

[Lexus]

The law is that at least one does not always drink. So everything is ok.

[novel66]

colleague, believe me, not always!

[Andrey K]

Quote: Stroporez

... so I had to celebrate with the pilots ...

You will not believe, I had the same crap.
"Found" on the occasion, in the mountains, Astra 80th. Nullz We looked at the marking, there something about a year ago was released before that. In stainless steel, shop 15. In short - a waking dream. And also 9X19. There is only one cartridge in the store.
So I gave myself to persuade the children from the 45th regiment of the Special Forces Airborne Special Forces. Swam on a box of "Kizlyar" cognac

[dauria]

was donated .... in exchange for 15 liters of alcohol.

Yes you, brother, a smart businessman There are also full museum trophies, and ALCOHOL !!! moreover 15 liters ... Well this is in half a liter 60
pieces, but 25 checks each. Sharpp three drenched seven, parasites. So tell the truth - everyone wanted a drink, and the gun, so, turned up. And without it they would have survived to the last drop. And together with the crew. Here is this figurine of 1933. Some kind of English. The "Gold Stall" seems to have been knocked out on it. I don’t really remember and don’t know what kind of gun.

[Sling cutter]

Quote: dauria

There are also full museum trophies, and ALCOHOL !!! moreover 15 liters ... Well this is in half a liter 60

Bacha, we don’t offend our own, the flyer said nada! We "gave"! And alcohol against that indicated ..., a lot was drunk))))) The Commonwealth of Forces, so to speak, there was a Soviet condensed milk there , at the stake between biscuits, than not "Napoleon". I will say one thing, without a fan, we would, at times, tryndets, were crazy boys!
and the “eights” have a special respect from me, they delivered me to the Kabul hospital so gently and beautifully, sho by taxi

[Andrey K]

Quote: Stroporez

... and the GXNUMX has a special respect from me, they brought me so gently and beautifully to the Kabul hospital, sho by taxi ...

Us "Mishanki" dragged along all the mountains, dives into the gorge and goes low, low

[Sling cutter]

Quote: Andrey K

Us "Mishanki" dragged along all the mountains, dives into the gorge and goes low, low

Duc, there were people! in the “bear” once, the pilot put it that way, we thought the land would be plowed But no, "reached" the place!

[Andrey K]

Quote: Stroporez

... Duc, there were people! in the “bear” once, the pilot put it that way, we thought the land would be plowed But no, "reached" the place! ...

We will not die alive.
The boys are also not a miss now, they are not ashamed

[dauria]

there ishsho condensed milk was Soviet

It was ... Only here we have some kind of yellow, either from the heat, or from the deadline. Disgusted since. You know, the first thing I did at Domodedovo was to buy a loaf and a bottle of kefir when I returned. What ...

[Sling cutter]

Quote: dauria

It was ... Only here we have some kind of yellow, either from the heat, or from the deadline. Disgusted since.

Yeah, yellow, with a crust like that It was sweeter for the infantry ... I remember they gave out dry kangaroo stew, it is a pity that there was nothing to photograph the label
At me, everything passed through Kabul-Tashkent .., well, there were different presentations, but from DEMBEL there were already 7 people, 88th ..., XNUMXth, no vodka, come on! "Camus" !!!
At all the stations, we were met as heroes, it was generally incomprehensible ...
And when you go home .... and there the pedestroika, who are the bandits (reign to them), who are thumping, woke up, bam-the second shift, in Checheniya ...
Duc. wrong format. I know one thing, Landing and Pilots is somewhere nearby in the clouds, but why give our Souls for huckster-mythical deeds?
Roma, don’t even think! The landing party is with you!

[LSA57]

Quote: Observer2014

Probably everyone who remembered the technology of its production simply died

Strange, but did they keep everything in their heads in the XNUMXth century? nebylo write paper? so right in words to each other about the machine to the machine before vali

[Andrey K]

Observer

... Probably everyone who remembered the technology of its recourse production simply died ...

Sergei
High Power is just a legend. In my opinion, it is much more reliable and efficient than the Colt M1911 (although both have one “dad”).
Ours also looked at him before the Great Patriotic War. At the GAU KA proving ground in 1941, we conducted comparative tests of our and foreign pistols, including the High Power.
High Power won the competition, showing 4,25% of the delays - the best result among all tested samples.
Our TTs and Vojvodina had 8,26% and 7,0%

[svp67]

Quote: Observer2014

Probably everyone who remembered the technology of its production simply died

China will not let anything end in history

[Andrey K]

Quote: svp67

... Nothing will allow China to "end history" ...

China - will breathe new life into it, hitherto unknown

[AlNikolaich]

So the Spaniards still produce it, the Hungarians, and maybe still Canadians.
Maybe FN will continue to release double action, this model. He will be more interesting!

[Pivot]

Why kiyai

[Pivot]

Turks, the Chinese arms market is far from them)) (

[avt]

Yes-ah-ah-ah ..... Armory legend! Well ... nothing lasts forever under the moon. However, this mechanism and now will give odds to some new mannered models!

[Magic archer]

A good "gun" but almost kilograms of weight is too much! It's a little less than Stechkin. But he had the opportunity to shoot in bursts. On the whole, High Power is a good gun. But for its time.

[san4es]

9mm Browning Hi Power

[Falcond]

From the article it’s not entirely clear what the "legendary" nature of this weapon is ... if it was a TT, then everything is clear ... And the information about the "can be bought" is especially relevant for us Russians ...
Translation of foreign press campaign

[Sands Careers General]

From the point of view of an amateur in arms, Highpower is not a legend of course.

[V. Salama]

Quote: Sands Career General

From the point of view of an amateur in arms, Highpower is not a legend of course.

I don’t know, I don’t know ... According to Sergey Badyuk, the Mark lll modification is the best combat pistol in the world. But maybe I'm wrong and he is not an amateur?

[Sands Careers General]

It was sarcasm, if that. Of course, Highpower is an epic gun, and it's stupid to deny it.

Although Badyuk Glock likes Pernach most of all, at least he said that.

[avt]

Quote: General of the Sand Quarries

Although Viper Glock likes Pernach the most,

We are sure that he ,, Pernach "held in his hands ??? Tell me something else," Dart. " Maximum ,, Berdysh "and all.

[Sands Careers General]

Even if he were a close friend to me, I would not be sure that he liked more and what specific weapons he held.

Are you his friend? Do you know?

[V. Salama]

Quote: Sands Career General

It was sarcasm, if that. Of course, Highpower is an epic gun, and it's stupid to deny it.

...

Without sarcasm. I went over with an analogy, I won’t go deeper - it’s not about the gun, I wanted to catch who would get excited and explain what kind of specialist Badiuk was, it was painfully contradictory, and all information about him was closed. He knows a lot about weapons, but superficially, many inaccuracies and mistakes. Pernach held many other things in his hands, the cycle leads or led the cognitive "male toys" of YouTube, if memory serves. However, the instructor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs shot from this variety.

[tracer]

Baduk is a good sergeant, and his level is quite consistent. But the armory is a very delicate matter. And obviously not his skate. Although as a "user", he reliably responded about weapons about which he filmed programs.

[avt]

Quote: FalconD

Translation of foreign press campaign

Campaign illiteracy, well, judging by

Quote: FalconD

..it would be about TT, then everything is clear.

There would have been no Browning, and even earlier, there would have been no TT. So before clicking a button with quotes, it would be nice to work with a search engine - to know what it was about.

[V. Salama]

Quote: avt

...
There would be no Browning, and even earlier, there would be no TT.

I can not agree with this. TT and Browning 1903 are different pistols. As well as PM and Walter PP.
Appearance is similar, and our "Victory" is similar to other passenger cars. And the notorious Browning 1903K, stored in a single copy in our museum of one research institute, with which the structures were compared, is most likely a joke of designers used in the 90s as an ideological sabotage to discredit the Soviet past. The existence of such a model was hardly guessed by D.M. Browning himself.

[Sling cutter]

Quote: avt

There would be no Browning, and even earlier, there would be no TT

Why would this be ?! You are probably poorly informed. Forward chickens or ayts, it has long been decided in favor of “God created people different, and Colonel Colt equalized them in rights”

further

then
and here

[avt]

Quote: Stroporez

Why would this be ?!

In order for the site to put everything on the crap, they’re already reluctant to do the mechanics themselves in comparison - to the site’s archive. They’ve chewed everything in detail and very competently

Quote: V. Salama

As well as PM and Walter PP.

Noting by the way the decisions of Tokarev and Makarov.

[Okolotochny]

This car was armed with elite special units, SAS for example.

[aws4]

you probably joked it now ????? this browning is much more legendary than tt .. just tt is better known in our country and browning all over the world

[V. Salama]

Quote: aws4

you probably joked it now ????? this browning is much more legendary than tt .. just tt is better known in our country and browning all over the world

Who is joking here will depend on who here understands that there is a "legend" and that there is "all over the world." To begin with, which is simpler, start by evaluating the Kalashnikov assault rifle using these criteria.

[aws4]

To begin with, start with how much which gun went around the world, and after how many and which countries it was manufactured and for how long it was not discontinued and was in demand ... then everything will fall into place !!!! yes TT legend but this legend is in our country .. if you take the planet earth then TT is just an outdated military pistol since the second world war ... and where does AK here ??? Kalash is no doubt a world legend you can’t argue with that ...

[V. Salama]

Quote: aws4

To begin, start with how much which pistol went around the world, and then in how many and which countries it was produced and for how long it was not discontinued ...

So I’m talking about the same thing, you started to assert that it’s not a legend and is not known all over the world ... You can solve a two-criteria problem in your hands. I can only say without a hint what was produced in Yugoslavia, Hungary (a shortened version is still in service with the police), China, the DPRK, was in service with Vietnam, the GDR, Cuba, you can google it and compare it by country, piece by piece ...
And why is the legend of Kalash? Maybe he is simply famous and popular?

[V. Salama]

PS yes, and type in YouTube "American grandfather about the TT pistol" you will be very surprised, he answers your question.

[aws4]

Listen, dear, everything that you wrote, I know a long time ago and I watched the video about which you are talking only it’s not grandfather but rather well-known Hikok 45 ... well, now start from the opposite, namely with Browning Hi-Power and you will understand that it was produced like this but in large numbers and was in service almost everywhere, and even had circuits in the social camp countries ... the fact remains that the high power pistol is a world-class legend that is still in service with many countries and its production has not yet been phased out and enjoys success in both the civilian market and the police, etc. and the TT pistol is a legend for the USSR and has been discontinued long ago unlike the Kh. P .. by the way, in my opinion, no one actually produces TT yet ...

[V. Salama]

The famous Hickock 45, if you trust his authority, claims that the TT was in service with about 50 countries. I at one time came across infa, I agree with him, but I don’t want to confirm as a memory, I remember that even in fascist Germany and Finland until 1951, when they were bought by one American company. Where he is now in arms to find out is futile for the subject of our conversation. You do not have to take my word for it, but few people know that in Russia we do not have a single law enforcement agency where the TT would not officially be in service. I do not want to scour the Internet, there alone proved it by listing the departmental documents, where indicated. For other countries, analyzing this is generally a complete kikos. Where is the TT produced now? Not sure where, I think in Romania, North Korea, China. There is no desire to look, just like you, where Nye Power continues to be produced, I think that there are also few where in the form of compilations.
Our debate was originally a dead end. I was aggravated by the categorical nature of your statement in the question, the answer to which we do not know without special research. And I was already embarrassed by the blind admiration of the West, and the evaluation criteria are also vague: Mauser K-96, if memory serves, legend or not? Churchill's favorite pistol, claim that he had a complete collection of all modifications. It was widely distributed in many countries. Officially was not in service anywhere.

[Fedorov]

I have two of these, let the SBU at least dig a pit, they’ll find horseradish. One pneumatic, on the mirror, for stupid Ukrainian policemen. And a copy of the check.
But I have enough health, to move someone with a finger. I love Makar. Threw it in the trunk, and do not care in any weather. And the garage is guarded by a vicious husky Timokhin, and the rottweiler dangles under the door. Bitch, but kind ... with her.

[Looking for]

It seems to be a man, A HVASTUN !!!

[Fedorov]

There is an answer in PM .. And a photo of the dogs, is it necessary? And trunks from the 90s. Here you need to cry, not to brag. What kind of a hero am I, with the connivance of people like me - the country is prosrali. Well, maybe not really, I’m Russian-Siberian, I can only boast of this .... and don’t tell anyone.

[Catfish]

It is a pity, with the cessation of the release of High Power, the whole era is gone. But John Moses Browning with his first pistol set the tone for all the “pistols” for a century ahead.
As there was:
"The toy is small and cute in appearance,
And he lies on the floor lifeless.
Browning ... Browning ... Browning ...
From a small hole at the end of the trunk
Death comes, small and sweet ... "
(Alas, I don’t remember the author)
As for the incomprehensible why of the legendary TT, it is simply an unsuccessful copy of the same Browning. Not without reason in the late thirties it was actually adopted and only the war broke all plans and prevented the mass production of a new pistol.

But the guy (dauria) in the photo, in my opinion, is Anfield's "Jungle Carbine", but I'm not sure that the muzzle end is not visible. Tap flash suppressor should be a bell, similar to our DP.

[V. Salama]

Quote: Sea Cat

...
As for the incomprehensible why of the legendary TT, it is simply an unsuccessful copy of the same Browning. Not without reason in the late thirties it was actually adopted and only the war broke all plans and prevented the mass production of a new pistol. ...

I really apologize, but what kind of Browning are we talking about in this case, moreover, the TT was an unsuccessful copy of it? In the late thirties actually adopted the High Power? They couldn’t, it’s a 9 mm caliber, and by that time it was expensive to drill barrels with a caliber different from a rifle. Well, I can’t enter and why TT is a copy of Browning arr. 1903 (see archive of VO). This browning has long failed to meet military requirements, a free shutter, a weak cartridge. You don’t know in what conditions the Soviet designer-gunsmith made decisions, there weren’t such ones in the West: conflicting tasks were set - cheaply, reliably, and with the required combat characteristics. High carbon steels - only for critical parts, alloyed steels do not apply at all ...
Yes, you take this Browning 1903 and squander the chamber under 9x19 Luger and from the first shot in your hands only the frame remains. On the TT, you can put a removable barrel under 9x19 and will work like a clock. I don’t know how else to get through that this is a different weapon.
Why is the TT legendary? Yes, because it is a weapon of victory. Make him a shutter clutch, like the Hungarian Tokajipts, remove the external bolt delay spring, change the design (ergonomics) of the handle and improve the magazine latch - there will be another machine.

[Catfish]

Quote: Sea Cat

It is a pity, with the cessation of the release of High Power, the whole era is gone. But John Moses Browning with his first pistol set the tone for all the “pistols” for a century ahead.
As there was:
"The toy is small and cute in appearance,
And he lies on the floor lifeless.
Browning ... Browning ... Browning ...
From a small hole at the end of the trunk
Death comes, small and sweet ... "
(Alas, I don’t remember the author)
As for the incomprehensible why of the legendary TT, it is simply an unsuccessful copy of the same Browning. Not without reason in the late thirties, instead of him, Voevodin’s pistol was actually adopted and only the war broke all plans and prevented the mass production of a new pistol.

But the guy (dauria) in the photo, in my opinion, is Anfield's "Jungle Carbine", but I'm not sure that the muzzle end is not visible. Tap flash suppressor should be a bell, similar to our DP.

[tracer]

Naganische is also good, but this is for fetishism if the case. In the "Glock era" it’s not even "decent" to carry pieces of iron. Although I love Smith Wesson MP9

[Sasha75]

Price and quality killed. At the price of a very expensive 1200 Euro Glock 600 bucks. It is made with very high quality and released in 1935 still work perfectly, those who really want take BU and there are a lot of them. They are produced a lot where and under license and so.