whatnickname
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Just went on the Browning web site today. Browning has posted that the Hi-Power is no longer in production. Very sad. We've lost another icon!
There are still clones being made I believe. Some of the clones doing rather well. The tisas regent sticks out in my mind as one of the more recent clones. Seems I heard good things, but that’s purely from recollection. I was interested in one for a while but the fancy passed.
In forty years of shooting and collecting Hi Powers this is the first I've heard of them being made in Germany.Thank you whatnicname a news expected for many years delayed by God.
I managed to fired several models over the years from Inglis, Portugal made, German Made, Argentinean to Canadian etc...
They come and go on GB, some batches better or worse than others. Right now, a lot of what's there in the $525 range are kinda "cosmetically challenged." Lately there has been more pretty nice ones in the $600 - $650ish range. My preference is the Mk III version from the early 1990s on. Based upon the ones I've handled, I have found them to generally have better triggers and be tighter than the early models, and the larger sights are much better, IMO, and easily replaceable if one wants more modern sights.They have actually started going up a good bit in price, and there does seem to be a couple of cut offs for price/model differences.
I was checking out the sold auctions on Gun Broker looking to get an idea as to price on the one I just bought, and they had two of the same era (1977) in a "little nicer" condition, that had 30- 50+ bids, and sold in the $2300-$2500 dollar range. The one I got was priced at $1100. I traded a couple of other handguns for it.
$1000-$1500 is a pretty common range anymore for things other than the beat-up MKII's and the MKIII's. They have a bunch of the beat up MKII's selling there now in the $520 range.