DHart
Member
Definitely the Hi-Power. I've got a Browning Silver Chrome forty, Browning polished blue Standard forty, and an FN MkIII 9mm... each of these guns has been superb. Never any hammer bite for me. Never any failures of any kind. These guns just run right, straight out of the box.
The trigger.. yes, they're not very good right out of the box. But that's easily remedied... remove the mag disconnect and the trigger improves immensely... to a point where I could happily live with it as a defense gun without doing anything else.
That said, I have also experienced a Don Williams trigger job on both of my forties and they now approach that of a nice 1911 at 4.5# pull... very sweet indeed... EXCELLENT! And the work is not that expensive unless you decide to have a bunch of other stuff done, which I feel is completely unnecessary for myself. I popped some night sights on my standard forty myself and all Don did was a trigger job... these are superior weapons indeed; no wonder there are millions in service world wide and have been for many decades.
The trigger.. yes, they're not very good right out of the box. But that's easily remedied... remove the mag disconnect and the trigger improves immensely... to a point where I could happily live with it as a defense gun without doing anything else.
That said, I have also experienced a Don Williams trigger job on both of my forties and they now approach that of a nice 1911 at 4.5# pull... very sweet indeed... EXCELLENT! And the work is not that expensive unless you decide to have a bunch of other stuff done, which I feel is completely unnecessary for myself. I popped some night sights on my standard forty myself and all Don did was a trigger job... these are superior weapons indeed; no wonder there are millions in service world wide and have been for many decades.
