I just thought it might be interesting to update this post, some 13 years later. For a while, I had a blog where I tracked wear and tear on this pistol. Unfortunately, when I cancelled a stolen credit card, I forgot to notify the web hosting service who had been billing that card and much of that information was lost... or so I thought. I discovered that nothing on the Internet ever disappears and found a copy of my blog circa 2007 available at:
http://web.archive.org/web/200705021...kolya/HiPo.htm
First let me refresh this post with what the Hi-Power looked like a little after I received it from Kurt Wickman (at about 1,750 rounds post custom work or 7,750 rounds total) in July 2000.