Gordon
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I'm here in Chino Valley with some BHP gunsels.I have been carrying condition one, but for everyday carry , the SFS system which I just saw solves all my problems and I'll be going that way. Real trick system!
If you are asking about the SFS, it's for condition one carry. Hammer down carry with the SFS would NOT be a good idea, as the hammer spur is so small, thumb cocking the gun under stress would be a difficult thing to do. The SFS trigger is cocked, either via thumb cocking or racking the slide, and then rather than puch the safety lever up to the engaged position (in fact, you can't do this; it won't move if you try), you just push the hammer forward and it snaps downward, and the safety moves up to the engaged position at the same time automatically. The pistol now looks like an uncocked pistol, even though it's not, and the mainspring is under full tension, or actually compression (if you know the system, you can actually see it's not uncocked; the hammer sits about one millimeter back from its actual uncocked position, but anyone else would never know). Then, when you want to shoot, you use the thumb of the shooting hand to wipe the safety downward to its disengaged position, just as you would for any normal BHP or 1911, and the hammer snaps back to the fully cocked position. It's just as quick as a normal single action, and you'll never hear the ignorant onlooker cry "Hey! Do you know your gun is cocked!?" As an added bonus, the SFS hammer is contoured so that it eliminates hammer bite, at least it does for me. I occasionally got bitten with my old BHP, even after installing the Cyliner & Slide "no bite" hammer, but I've never been bitten by my SFS Hi Power.I might have to look into that as well.
Does this enhance condition one carry though or is it primarily for hammer down carry.
"Have you considered some good, professional training?"
How about: FBI Academy as the fledgling DEA didn't have it's own
California POST certification
California and Az. CCW certification
Chapman Academy and a Farnham Seminar
API 250, 350
All ITTS pistol series -and others
9 Louis Awerbuck courses all of which involved pistols
Survivor of 2 pistol shootings and numerous armed confrontations
In fact, a case could be made that JMB intended his autopistols to be carried that way...
What does that have to do with the Browning High Power? Development of the BHP began in about 1920 in response to a solicitation by the French government looking for a new service pistol. Development continued after JMB's death under the supervision of Dieudonne Saive at Frabrique Nationale. It went into production in 1935 (and is therefore referred to as the P35).seeker_two said:Remember, JMB was developing autopistols at the time when the SAA was still the mainstay of the US Cavalry...