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Sold about 5 of them to costumers and review one myself. I like the it feels. We ran almost 1000 rounds through the black cerekote gun and ran great. The stainless steel ones we have had problems with. 1 and failures to feed with blazer. The other broke extractor after 400 rounds. Luckily the importer is 20 min away from the store and is super nice about getting parts to us as well as fixing any problem. Not so good they are importing in small batches and are selling out very quickly. He said it would be a few weeks to get the parts. They will however take any browning parts and seem to be high quality on the outside. Our gunsmith has done 3 trigger jobs on the guns and likes their quality on the slide and frame but the small parts are where they are cutting corner. He says they are rough. For now I would say if you get one go with the black cerekote and stay away from the stainless.
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P 35 Hi Power probably the most popular military sidearm EVER!
Okay, the Hungarians, Turks, Israelis, and others copied it without any licensing, and I have owned and used FN, Sarsilmaz, Arcus, FM, Inglis, and numerous mystery Hi Power clones, and modified Hi Powers like the FEG P9M which uses a barrel with Browning locking lugs into the slide, but the barrel pivot & recoil spring guide are 100% S&W model 59. The rest of the gun is 99% John Browning & D. Savier. The Tisas P35 copies will NOT take FN, FEG or Inglis, Sarsilmaz, FM or other Browning parts without hand fitting. Aside from the fact nothing quite fits FN or other standard parts with the Tisas, these seem like decent guns, so far. I have broken every part on a Hi Power imaginable. Slides, frames, barrels, extractors, magazines, you name it. I have even crushed a frame and pounded it back into shape, so the Hi Power holds a special place with me, that only a gun that has saved my live can. For $505 I am open buying to the Tisas. For $700? I'll save up another $400 or $500 and buy a MkIII FN, or buy a beat up surplus P 35. I have a couple of FEGs in the original Browning design and the SA modified model with the S&W recoil guide rod and pivot. Those can be a bit sloppy, but just like a 1911, pinch the slide closed a little and they tighten up. You can always spread it back open a little if you go to far.
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As a follow up to the post concerning Mach 1 Arsenal's surplus FN Hi-Powers, there are some pretty nice Mk. II FN pistols listed (and some failing to sell) on Gunbroker for $480. If you don't need replaceable sights, this is a pretty good deal, considering the inflated prices for FN Hi-Powers since production stopped.
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I have replaced both sights on the old 1911s, FN Hi Powers, Arcus, FMs & FEGs.
Find the proper 1911 sight with the right sized post grind down a staking tool, or use silver solder and the front sights can be removed & new sights restaked. The rear sights are drifted in and then peened or staked with a small divot fore of the sight. The FEG P35M slides are super thick at the muzzle end so a machine shop can machine in a dovetail for about $95. The Daewoo DP51 cost me $140 but the front sight had to be milled off first. Those sights are not staked on. They are part of the slide. Older 1911s & P35s have staked on front sights. New ones will usually have the dovetails both fore and aft. CZ's inline dovetails with the pins are no fun! get some cheap visegrips grind off the ridges on the jaws, & clamp those to the sight to make a heatsink, so heat from drilling the notch won't melt out the plastic epoxy or whatever that is that holds the tritium vial into the sight.
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I've got a T-Series Hi Power that I bought for $57 over fifty years ago, and a Cerakoted BR9 that I bought this year. Build quality of the BR9 seems to be better than the T. I do love that T though.
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Lot of thread revivals lately.
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Are you sure your T series is an FN and not an Inglis with a T prefix serial#?
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"Are you sure your T series is an FN and not an Inglis with a T prefix serial#?"
Quite certain. The markings on it haven't changed a bit since I swapped that $57 J-frame for it half a century ago :-) It had had half a box of ammo shot through it since new. I got the remainder of that box in the swap, but it didn't last long. Frame/slide fit of the T was rattley when it was new. Still is. Despite that, it was fairly accurate though. Edit- I do recognize that you know far more about the P35 than I do. Are you telling me that Inglis duplicated the Browning Arms Company St Louis stamping and the Made in Belgium stamping on the left side of the slide when they imported to the US? Last edited by JimCunn; November 5, 2019 at 01:22 PM. |
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Can anyone else answer that question for me?
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I don't think Inglis "imported to the U.S." Inglis manufactured Hi-Powers for the Canadian military during WW2.
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I didn't think so either, but one of the previous posters has suggested that my T-series with Browning markings and stamped with Made in Belgium is actually an Inglis. Since he knows more about these than I do, I thought I'd ask.
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There are Inglis Hi Powers with the letter "T" in the serial#, as in 2Txxx or 5Txxx. It is not uncommon for someone with an Inglis to claim they have a "T series Hi Power" when they just have a WWII era Inglis, not an FN. Quote:
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Inglis Hi Powers were made in Canada with the aid of FN personnel, one pistol they had with them and one from GB those were metric pattern and inch drawings were reverse engineered from them. Inglis pistols were only imported to the US many years after production ended and were Chinese contract and military surplus, none were imported by Browning nor did any carry Browning or FN slide markings other than “Browning FN 9mm HP”. Non Chinese contract began with 0Txxxx mine is 0T5358, and 8T0034 these are not FN “T” series pistols, some Inglis parts will interchange with FN pistols.
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Yeah, that matches my understanding of Inglis production as well.
My Serial # is in the T280XXX range. Since I have considerable sentimental attachment to my T, I don't use it for defensive carry or even keep it loaded. Which is why I bought the Tisas - no attachment, it's just a tool, and is loaded. Build quality of the Tisas is better than the T, but the brownish black Cerakote finish of the Tisas is not as attractive as the sleek blue on the Browning. The Browning had a lot of slide/frame rattle and clatter when new, while the Tisas is snug and smooth. Barrel to slide fit on the Tisas is also better. Browning trigger (with disconnector removed) is much better than the gritty Tisas trigger with disconnector still in place. T disconnector removal was an easy five minute job. I haven't been able to get the Tisas disconnector out yet - it's a real struggle. Last edited by JimCunn; November 6, 2019 at 02:22 AM. |
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