yhtomit
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I was just skimming an active thread about whether it's a wise idea to buy a Hi-Point 9mm as a range / plinking gun. [Thread summary: Either Yes, it is, or No, dagnabbit, it isn't -- save up and buy a Ruger. If No, continue to advice to buy a .22 instead, as it's cheaper to feed and not *that* much more to buy, if at all.]
Ahem.
My question / thought-stream is this: What to expect from Hi-Point in the future?
For all their faults (ugly, blocky, let-us-charitably-say mixed reports on reliability and accuracy, etc), I'd take a Hi-Point pistol if my alternative was no gun at all.
And their carbines have long intrigued me -- I've resisted, but might not forever. I see now that they finally have a carbine in .45ACP, too -- it was in development, I think, last time I thought about it. Been a couple of years
Now they have skeletonized stocks, doo-hickey options out the wazoo (laser! flashlight! USB connection! rails!), and don't IMO look all that bad. Tempting.
The pistols, though, don't seem to've changed in that time. They're all pretty much ugly bricks, which either reliably shoot bullets down range (percent Q of reporting owners and pundits) or don't (percent 100-Q of reporting owners and pundits).
Does Hi-Point show up to SHOT? Do they have interesting plans in the works? I would like to see them make a gun in the spirit of the small, budget-oriented 9mms that are suddenly appearing from Ruger, Kimber, and others. Not sure I'd want to buy it, but it's interesting to see what the low-budget entrants in any field do, and how well the result functions. What would a Hi-Point shotgun be like?
Makes me think of Yugo and Hyundai ... they hit the U.S. at about the same time, both offered cars for (IIRC) just under $5,000, both were laughed at pretty hard. Hyundai as a company, though, had some deep backing, and could get past the laughter stage, while Yugo's whole country decided to dry up and blow away. Hyundai may not be Lexus, but they have a decent warranty (Yes, I hear it already -- "You'll need it!") and I wouldn't be ashamed to be seen driving one. Some are pretty nifty, actually. But Yugo ... Yugos might still be around in some collectors' garages, waiting for the price jump, I guess. But if only Yugo had stuck it out, somehow, and kept making cheap, bottom-of-the-barrel cars that mostly worked and had loyal drivers ... I think that might be the Hi-Point car maker.
And instead of "crappy," I like to think of Hi-Point (because I am a generous guy, and have never shot one to think especially bad of it, only read with wonder reports from people who do) as "quirky."
Maybe in 10 years, they'll be making both fantastic, high-tech carbines shooting cartridge-free ammunition, with GPS, stereo FM radios, and mounting hardware for putting on drones ... and an unchanged quartet of blocky pistols.
I wonder though, and would enjoy hearing informed speculation as well as well-honed cynical ridicule. (Of Hi-Point, not of me.)
timothy
Ahem.
My question / thought-stream is this: What to expect from Hi-Point in the future?
For all their faults (ugly, blocky, let-us-charitably-say mixed reports on reliability and accuracy, etc), I'd take a Hi-Point pistol if my alternative was no gun at all.
And their carbines have long intrigued me -- I've resisted, but might not forever. I see now that they finally have a carbine in .45ACP, too -- it was in development, I think, last time I thought about it. Been a couple of years
Now they have skeletonized stocks, doo-hickey options out the wazoo (laser! flashlight! USB connection! rails!), and don't IMO look all that bad. Tempting. The pistols, though, don't seem to've changed in that time. They're all pretty much ugly bricks, which either reliably shoot bullets down range (percent Q of reporting owners and pundits) or don't (percent 100-Q of reporting owners and pundits).
Does Hi-Point show up to SHOT? Do they have interesting plans in the works? I would like to see them make a gun in the spirit of the small, budget-oriented 9mms that are suddenly appearing from Ruger, Kimber, and others. Not sure I'd want to buy it, but it's interesting to see what the low-budget entrants in any field do, and how well the result functions. What would a Hi-Point shotgun be like?
Makes me think of Yugo and Hyundai ... they hit the U.S. at about the same time, both offered cars for (IIRC) just under $5,000, both were laughed at pretty hard. Hyundai as a company, though, had some deep backing, and could get past the laughter stage, while Yugo's whole country decided to dry up and blow away. Hyundai may not be Lexus, but they have a decent warranty (Yes, I hear it already -- "You'll need it!") and I wouldn't be ashamed to be seen driving one. Some are pretty nifty, actually. But Yugo ... Yugos might still be around in some collectors' garages, waiting for the price jump, I guess. But if only Yugo had stuck it out, somehow, and kept making cheap, bottom-of-the-barrel cars that mostly worked and had loyal drivers ... I think that might be the Hi-Point car maker.
And instead of "crappy," I like to think of Hi-Point (because I am a generous guy, and have never shot one to think especially bad of it, only read with wonder reports from people who do) as "quirky."
Maybe in 10 years, they'll be making both fantastic, high-tech carbines shooting cartridge-free ammunition, with GPS, stereo FM radios, and mounting hardware for putting on drones ... and an unchanged quartet of blocky pistols.
I wonder though, and would enjoy hearing informed speculation as well as well-honed cynical ridicule. (Of Hi-Point, not of me.)
timothy
