My 1911 feels like a brick...

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Not really, just compared to the Hi Power I acquired about a month ago from Cole's. This was one of his $350 Hi Powers and I am pleased. I have only shot about 10 quick rounds through it to check for function but have been holding, pointing and dry firing it some and love the way it feels. I picked up my 1911 tonight and thought, man that doesn't feel as good as it used to!! Anyway, I'm hoping to stop by an indoor range tomorrow and put some lead down the pipe. I think it looks good with the parked finish and VZ Grips. I will work on some better photos soon.

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Cool! The Hi-Power is an awesome gun, and that looks like an awesome example of it.
 
When I whittled down my handgun collection a few years ago, I keep my BHPs and 1911s.
Nice looking guns
 
Love all of my M1911s but in a 9mm. I have to go with my Browning Hi-Power.
 
I can't argue that statement.

Lifelong 1911 shooter here, but NOTHING feels as good in (my) hand as a P-35/BHP.
 
Thanks for the compliments. I love the 1911 too but this thing just feels awesome. I spent an evening looking through all of Cole's Hi Powers before selecting this one. I made a broad list and slowly whittled it down to this one. Didn't get a chance to shoot today but hope to real soon.
 
There is one in every crowd. I disagree to an extent. To me the "feel" includes trigger action and point-ability. When these two factors are added, a good 1911 for me please. Don't get me wrong, the BHP is a deserving classic. We are parsing smallish degrees here (except for the trigger, where the difference isn't that small even without mag disconnect).
 
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My primary gripe is with Browning, which is trying to kill the gun. They refused to release many factory magazines into the market for a long time. I found this to be very bad behavior on their part.

The other problems with the Hi-Power are the sharp edges on the slide (especially the knife like edge where the left side thumb safety interfaces with the slide), the magazine disconnect, beveling the magazine well and generally bad trigger pull out of the box. Deburring the slide and beveling the mag well, plus refinishing, is expensive. Trigger work and adding night sights also costs. A base gun now costs $850+. This is nuts.
 
Very nice looking gun. At $350 I might just finally go ahead and get one of these myself - been on the "to do" list for a while.

A Browning Hi Power as actually the first handgun I ever fired. I was at a friends house when I was 16-17 and his dad let us each shoot a mag through his handgun. I remember not being able to hit squat with it, but at that time about all I'd ever shot was shotguns.

I honestly didn't know enough about handguns at the time to really remember enough to gauge its performance, but I've always wanted to add one to my collection.
 
When comparing a grip of a hi power you can't compare it to other guns. You can only compare it to every other hi power made.
 
Well, I broke down and got one myself :). Also went with one of the Israeli surplus ones from Coles. Bought a set of Hogue Gonalco Alves grips for it as the original plastic ones looked a bit rough. So far it does feelt superb in the hand. Trigger is absolute crap but I'm hoping removing the mag disconnect will cure (or at least help) that.

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I recently handled a BHP at a local pawn shop and it just didn't fit my hand at all. Nothing against the gun, ergonomics are subjective, but it didn't feel good to me personally at all. The 1911 fits my hand much better.

That said, congrats on the beautiful gun and hope you enjoy it!
 
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