Am I the only one that thinks High Powers are ugly? - Page 4

jen45acp · December 5, 2009, 11:47 PM

When I stare deeply into my Browning Belgium made Hi Power, the only thing I can see in the highly polished bluing is the great big smile I get every time.

gyvel · December 7, 2009, 04:53 AM

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And gyvel... you're wrong. I specifically said I wasn't trying to offend anyone... I just don't find them to be good looking designs...

That was just good natured ribbing. I live well north of you in Yavapai County, and we have pretty liberal (in the good sense) gun policies here, too.

earlthegoat2 · December 7, 2009, 05:17 AM

I guess if its your opinion then you must have been bottling it up for a reason and it was a good reason at that.

1911s are ugly too........but only when next to a BHP.

I wish you good luck as I begin forming a mob with pitchforks to come after you.

DocDizz · December 7, 2009, 07:01 PM

You, sir, must be the guy that exclusively banged fat chicks in high school, and are now upset with all the rejection from the beautiful chicks and take that anger out on the BHP, one of the greatest beauties known to man, next to the 1911.

amd6547 · December 7, 2009, 07:30 PM

Every man should have a fat girl in his past...

jrothWA · December 8, 2009, 12:04 AM

Its a work of form & function, great bluing & polish.

You must have seen a WWII veteran, that need a good home.

TimM · December 8, 2009, 12:28 AM

You think a BHP is ugly and a Glock is beautiful? You compare a BHP to a Hi-Point? Nothing looks more like a Hi-Point than a Glock. They are both hideous. What the hell is wrong with you?!

team101 · December 8, 2009, 01:24 AM

The HP is almost everything a handgun should be. If I could only have one in .45 or 10mm.

Cliff47 · December 8, 2009, 10:29 AM

The JMB designed Hi-Power is a classic design(granted), ergonomic to a fault(with some thinner grips). has a couple of minor faults(that miniscule manual safety, and the spur hammer). It feels good, I shoot well with it, what more should I ask for?...I consider John Moses Browning a higher power.

Yellowfin · December 8, 2009, 10:39 AM

Beautiful or not, are they safe to carry cocked and locked? I've heard varying opinions but nothing definitive. It seems not right to carry a single action auto if you can't have it cocked and locked.

Willie D · December 8, 2009, 10:45 AM

Ugly?!?

ddc · December 8, 2009, 12:05 PM

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...with a bulging lump on the back-strap just like a Glock.

You're just saying this stuff to get us all tweaked up, right?

dgludwig · December 8, 2009, 12:35 PM

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Beautiful or not, are they safe to carry cocked and locked?

As safe as any 1911 sans firing pin safety.

headbangerJD · December 8, 2009, 12:55 PM

those all black BHP are damn purty. But what do I know, I think my Glock 23 is as nice looking as any gun.

Bartholomew Roberts · December 8, 2009, 02:16 PM

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Beautiful or not, are they safe to carry cocked and locked?

Well, for a Hi-Power to fire with the safety engaged, something would need to break the shaft of the safety, snap off a piece of the sear (or both the full-cock and half-cock hammer notches) and then the hammer would be free to hit the firing pin and send it forward - unless it is a MkIIS or MkIIIS Hi-Power, in which case a paddle would catch the firing pin and block it from going forward unless the trigger was depressed.

So far been carrying the Hi-Power for a decade cocked and locked and no issues.

amd6547 · December 8, 2009, 08:43 PM

Yes, They are just SO ugly....I don't know HOW I can stand to own this one (sarcasm alert):

PH/CIB · December 8, 2009, 09:02 PM

If I ever had to go back in the Blood and the Mud, I would take my Glock 34 and the 33 round magazines as a backup to my rifle, only because I would not expose any one of my three Browning High Powers, two nines and one fourty, to such brutal treatment even tho they could take it as the high power served in many wars!

Have you ever held one in your hand, fits like a fine leather glove, not the 1x4block feeling of the Glock. Take out the magazine disconnect safety and a litlle trigger work and you will have a single action trigger like a fine 1911. Beautiful and Classic Browning by most anyone's standards!

Officer's Match · December 8, 2009, 09:17 PM

Sorry guys, no matter how many claim BHP's look good, to me they are flat out ugly. Makes the XD looks good - not an easy thing.

amd6547 · December 8, 2009, 09:45 PM

No accounting for taste, or the lack thereof.

Officer's Match · December 8, 2009, 09:54 PM

Nope. I'll just suffer along with my ugly old Colts, Ed Brown, Wilson, Smith wheelguns and such.

obxned · December 8, 2009, 10:36 PM

It was designed by Jonathan Moses Browning. To call it 'ugly' is blasphemous! We must stone you to death!

NJG33 · December 9, 2009, 12:35 AM

I watch this thread just to see if anyone has posted another pretty picture of a Hi-Power since my last visit

Uncle Malice · December 9, 2009, 08:06 AM

I watch this thread to find the few people that actually agree with me...

Like I've said all along, I'm not sure exactly why I find it so ugly, although I've pointed out a few things that bug me...

With that said, I find the 1911 to be one of the BEST looking guns ever made... and there's not THAT much difference in them.

Sorry guys.

Officer's Match · December 9, 2009, 08:08 AM

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It was designed by Jonathan Moses Browning. To call it 'ugly' is blasphemous! We must stone you to death!

Ah but you can't! I've always got a 1911 on me, thus anointing me and protecting me.

Bartholomew Roberts · December 9, 2009, 08:17 AM

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Like I've said all along, I'm not sure exactly why I find it so ugly, although I've pointed out a few things that bug me...

Where is the "Burn the heretic!" option in your poll?

View Poll Results: Am I the only one who thinks BHP's are ugly?
I think they are ugly!	43	17.41%
I think they're a beautiful gun!	183	74.09%
It's a tool, I don't care one way or the other.	21	8.50%
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December 5, 2009, 11:47 PM	#76
jen45acp Member Join Date: December 17, 2008 Location: Bluegrass of Kentucky Posts: 71	When I stare deeply into my Browning Belgium made Hi Power, the only thing I can see in the highly polished bluing is the great big smile I get every time. __________________ "Predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them" Thomas Jefferson

December 7, 2009, 05:17 AM	#78
earlthegoat2 Senior Member Join Date: March 20, 2009 Location: Lowcountry Posts: 373	I guess if its your opinion then you must have been bottling it up for a reason and it was a good reason at that. 1911s are ugly too........but only when next to a BHP. I wish you good luck as I begin forming a mob with pitchforks to come after you. __________________ I say take off the warning labels and let them sort themselves out.

December 7, 2009, 07:30 PM	#80
amd6547 Senior Member Join Date: May 27, 2006 Posts: 2,313	Every man should have a fat girl in his past... __________________ The past is gone...the future may never happen. Be Here Now.

December 8, 2009, 12:04 AM	#81
jrothWA Senior Member Join Date: November 11, 2006 Posts: 2,519	PILGRIM, Them fighting words, here! Its a work of form & function, great bluing & polish. You must have seen a WWII veteran, that need a good home.

December 7, 2009, 07:01 PM	#79
DocDizz Senior Member Join Date: August 17, 2008 Posts: 257	You, sir, must be the guy that exclusively banged fat chicks in high school, and are now upset with all the rejection from the beautiful chicks and take that anger out on the BHP, one of the greatest beauties known to man, next to the 1911.

December 8, 2009, 12:28 AM	#82
TimM Member Join Date: October 5, 2009 Location: Colorado Posts: 76	You think a BHP is ugly and a Glock is beautiful? You compare a BHP to a Hi-Point? Nothing looks more like a Hi-Point than a Glock. They are both hideous. What the hell is wrong with you?!

December 8, 2009, 01:24 AM	#83
team101 Member Join Date: October 7, 2009 Posts: 36	The HP is almost everything a handgun should be. If I could only have one in .45 or 10mm.

December 8, 2009, 10:29 AM	#84
Cliff47 Senior Member Join Date: March 25, 2005 Posts: 413	The JMB designed Hi-Power is a classic design(granted), ergonomic to a fault(with some thinner grips). has a couple of minor faults(that miniscule manual safety, and the spur hammer). It feels good, I shoot well with it, what more should I ask for?...I consider John Moses Browning a higher power.

December 8, 2009, 10:39 AM	#85
Yellowfin Senior Member Join Date: January 7, 2007 Location: Lancaster Co, PA Posts: 2,311	Beautiful or not, are they safe to carry cocked and locked? I've heard varying opinions but nothing definitive. It seems not right to carry a single action auto if you can't have it cocked and locked. __________________ Students for Concealed Carry on Campus http://www.concealedcampus.org "You can't stop insane people from doing insane things by passing insane laws--that's insane!" - Penn Jillette

December 8, 2009, 12:55 PM	#89
headbangerJD Senior Member Join Date: February 1, 2009 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 322	those all black BHP are damn purty. But what do I know, I think my Glock 23 is as nice looking as any gun. __________________ In the end, shot placement is king, penetration is queen and "stopping power" is the court jester. Everything else is one man's opinion.

December 8, 2009, 08:43 PM	#91
amd6547 Senior Member Join Date: May 27, 2006 Posts: 2,313	Yes, They are just SO ugly....I don't know HOW I can stand to own this one (sarcasm alert): __________________ The past is gone...the future may never happen. Be Here Now.

December 8, 2009, 09:02 PM	#92
PH/CIB Senior Member Join Date: March 2, 2007 Location: Iowa Posts: 281	If I ever had to go back in the Blood and the Mud, I would take my Glock 34 and the 33 round magazines as a backup to my rifle, only because I would not expose any one of my three Browning High Powers, two nines and one fourty, to such brutal treatment even tho they could take it as the high power served in many wars! Have you ever held one in your hand, fits like a fine leather glove, not the 1x4block feeling of the Glock. Take out the magazine disconnect safety and a litlle trigger work and you will have a single action trigger like a fine 1911. Beautiful and Classic Browning by most anyone's standards! __________________ Life Member,,,Military Order of the Purple Heart, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Amvets, Disabled American Veterans, 173rd Airborne Skysoldier Association, National Rifle Association, Member,,,IDPA, USPSA, Iowa Sheriffs and Deputies Association,,Website http://www.handgunholsters.net

December 8, 2009, 09:17 PM	#93
Officer's Match Senior Member Join Date: January 16, 2007 Location: LANCASTER,OHIO Posts: 3,944	Sorry guys, no matter how many claim BHP's look good, to me they are flat out ugly. Makes the XD looks good - not an easy thing. __________________ REAL EYES REALIZE REAL LIES

December 8, 2009, 09:45 PM	#94
amd6547 Senior Member Join Date: May 27, 2006 Posts: 2,313	No accounting for taste, or the lack thereof. __________________ The past is gone...the future may never happen. Be Here Now.

December 8, 2009, 09:54 PM	#95
Officer's Match Senior Member Join Date: January 16, 2007 Location: LANCASTER,OHIO Posts: 3,944	Nope. I'll just suffer along with my ugly old Colts, Ed Brown, Wilson, Smith wheelguns and such. __________________ REAL EYES REALIZE REAL LIES

December 8, 2009, 10:36 PM	#96
obxned Senior Member Join Date: May 30, 2007 Location: OBX, NC Posts: 1,128	Am I the only one that thinks High Powers are ugly? It was designed by Jonathan Moses Browning. To call it 'ugly' is blasphemous! We must stone you to death! __________________ “If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.” Ronald Reagan I'm a proud member of a North Carolina *Committee of Safety*

December 9, 2009, 12:35 AM	#97
NJG33 Member Join Date: June 25, 2007 Location: MN Posts: 21	I watch this thread just to see if anyone has posted another pretty picture of a Hi-Power since my last visit

December 9, 2009, 08:06 AM	#98
Uncle Malice Senior Member Join Date: May 11, 2009 Location: Phoenix Posts: 4,580	I watch this thread to find the few people that actually agree with me... Like I've said all along, I'm not sure exactly why I find it so ugly, although I've pointed out a few things that bug me... With that said, I find the 1911 to be one of the BEST looking guns ever made... and there's not THAT much difference in them. Sorry guys. __________________ Handguns: 2x Glock 19.4 \| Glock 26.4 \| HK USP 9 \| HK P2000 \| HK VP9 SK \| HK P30 \| CZ Shadow 2 \| CZ P-10 C \| CZ P-07 \| CZP-01 \| S&W 360PD Rifles: DDM4 \| SGL 21 \| SAM7K \| Draco \| PSA PDW SBR \| ASA Side-Charger SBR \| CZ Scorpion K SBR \| Aero M4E1 9" 300blk SBR \| Angstadt Jack9 SBR \| Savage Mark II FV-SR Shotguns: Mossberg 590A1 20" SP \| Mossberg Shockwave

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