Kilted Cossack
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- Jan 10, 2008
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Wow, you mean I'll have to go back to my .45s for diversity? (Maniacal cackle.)
9mms I've shot and really liked: Taurus PT92 (old style, no decocker), S&W 5946, Sig 225, Kahr K9 (flatside), Glock 17, S&W 639, Sig 228, HK P7.
With the caveat that I regard this as the "only 9mm" and not the only "gun" or "only pistol", for me the choice is easy.
Browning Hi-Power. Make mine a recent production, cast frame and milled slide, manufactured in Belgium and assembled in Portugal, external extractor, ambidextrous safety, stock three rectangle sights, pretty wood grips, and oh yes the magazine disconnect will go bye-bye.
It is history, it is tradition. It is a flowering of the genius of John Moses Browning (pbuh) and Dieudionne Saive. It was the first wondernine. It looks like a honest-to-John Wayne firearm and not a hair dryer. It fits your hand, my hand, red hand, blue hand. Once holler pernts got popular, FN made sure it fed them. It is delightfully slim. It is perhaps not the most rational of choices if it all comes down to efficiency for you, but for me it does not all come down to efficiency.
Pacino packed one in Serpico and Christopher Walken packed one in King of New York. The SAS used them and the Nazis used them. Heck, everyone used them. The Hi-Power was to the world what the K frame M&P was to America.
I won't knock anyone else's choice---that's what choice is about. But for me? There are plenty of cool 9mms, but the Browning Hi-Power is THE 9mm.
9mms I've shot and really liked: Taurus PT92 (old style, no decocker), S&W 5946, Sig 225, Kahr K9 (flatside), Glock 17, S&W 639, Sig 228, HK P7.
With the caveat that I regard this as the "only 9mm" and not the only "gun" or "only pistol", for me the choice is easy.
Browning Hi-Power. Make mine a recent production, cast frame and milled slide, manufactured in Belgium and assembled in Portugal, external extractor, ambidextrous safety, stock three rectangle sights, pretty wood grips, and oh yes the magazine disconnect will go bye-bye.
It is history, it is tradition. It is a flowering of the genius of John Moses Browning (pbuh) and Dieudionne Saive. It was the first wondernine. It looks like a honest-to-John Wayne firearm and not a hair dryer. It fits your hand, my hand, red hand, blue hand. Once holler pernts got popular, FN made sure it fed them. It is delightfully slim. It is perhaps not the most rational of choices if it all comes down to efficiency for you, but for me it does not all come down to efficiency.
Pacino packed one in Serpico and Christopher Walken packed one in King of New York. The SAS used them and the Nazis used them. Heck, everyone used them. The Hi-Power was to the world what the K frame M&P was to America.
I won't knock anyone else's choice---that's what choice is about. But for me? There are plenty of cool 9mms, but the Browning Hi-Power is THE 9mm.
