Picked this one up today

Very nice, congrats!

What does the elevation of that rear sight go up to? 500 yards

Reminds me of Gus in Lonesome Dove when he gut shoots that feller that Blue Duck sent after him. "He's just wastin all his bullets.

Caplock said:

What does the elevation of that rear sight go up to? 500 yards

Reminds me of Gus in Lonesome Dove when he gut shoots that feller that Blue Duck sent after him. "He's just wastin all his bullets.

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The tangent sighted HiPowers were originally meant to be capable of accepting a shoulder stock and being used as an improvised carbine, hence the extreme elevation settings-


Congrats, Jeff, HiPowers are in a league of their own. Enjoy!

That's very cool. Would that be a C&R deal because of age?.....OR is that a short barreled rifle no matter the age once a stock is attached.

Jeff olson

Nice Hi-Power! Love the old time look of the rear tangent sights! I think these were made in limited numbers starting in the early '90s through to the early '00s. I have also seen it called the El Capitan Model and have come across some that were slotted for a shoulder stock but were never sold with one.

Is that an Inglis HP? I once owned one with stock. Beautiful!

Caplock said:

That's very cool. Would that be a C&R deal because of age?.....OR is that a short barreled rifle no matter the age once a stock is attached.

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If you look at the roll mark you can tell this is an MKIII era BHP made in the 1990s. The other giveaway is the ambi thumb safety.

If you put a stock on this gun you would be making an SBR. IIRC thirty don’t have the slot for the stock anyway.

Guns produced before the NFA with the “original” stock are grandfathered. If you put a reproduction on it you are making an SBR no matter how old the gun is. Also put an Inglis stock on a FN you have the same problem.

To the OP nice gun enjoy y it.

You sure do have some nice firearms.
Weird ones, the kind I like.

Really cool high power. It would be fun to take that to a rifle range and fiddle with the elevation and watch to see how people react lol.