Shot my cordless drill the other day

[Onward Allusion]

Finally had a chance to shoot my Hi Point 45 that I had purchased for grins. Bought an additional 5 new mags for it too. Loaded up the mags and let all 6 sit for a week. Took cordless drill on Friday. Gave it the cursory review. Never cleaned it. Ran about 200 FLAWLESS rounds through it using the 6 mags. All shots landed in 6 inch CoM from about 10 yards off-hand. It was actually one of the softest shooting 45's I'd ever shot. Recoil was almost non-existent due to the heft of the slide.

This is the 2nd HP that I'd picked up for grins. The other one was the C9. I had problems with feeding with that one initially, but all I had to do was to let the mags sit fully loaded for a few days. That was how I knew to do it with the 45's mags. BTW, groupings with the C9 was around 2 inches at the same distance off-hand.

Now, I don't depending on a HP for SD/HD, but after two of 'em - I wouldn't have any qualms to use one for that purpose.

 

[Dean1818]

Thats funny..... They do look like a power drill

I have seen some laser weapons on old sci fi movies that looked similar as well.


I shot my friends Hipoint 45, and though the trigger was a bit rough, it was easy
To be accurate........ It also was 100 percent reliable.

Ugly, but underated.......

 

[j frame]

Must be early in the morning; I was thinking that you actually SHOT your cordless drill. From personal experience, it's WAY more fun to shoot cell phones.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

^The gun that looks like a cell phone is an NFA AOW.

The HiPoint reminds me of the old H&K VP70 another unlocked blowback pistol that relies on a slide about the same weight as a submachine breechblock (most of the weight of the H&K VP and the HiPoint pistols is in the slide).

 

[calaverasslim]

no, J frame, ur wrong. Way more fun to shoot a/c's

 

[Walt Sherrill]

I heard that Springfield introduced a Hi-Point clone recently...



I know, I know -- it's not really a "clone" and it's really quite different, but it does show that not all guns are beautiful. (I acknowledge, too, that the Springfield would be a good bit easier to carry concealed...)


.

 

[witchhunter]

Just for trivia, a .25 ACP will not break an old AT&T phone, won't even make it quit ringing....

 

[DNS]

I had one in 9mm and unless you limp wristed it just kept on chugging.
I'm gonna pass on the .45 and wait patiently for a 10mm version.

BTW that XD really is butt ugly.

 

[Deaf Smith]

Aw heck guys... go look a Astra 400.

Makes that High Point look like a Renaissance engraved High Power.

Deaf

 

[Merle1]

no, J frame, ur wrong. Way more fun to shoot a/c's

My personal preference is the old fashoned TV sets with a vacuum picture tube.

 

[DeadFlies]

I just bought a JHP myself not long ago. I like it much, much more than the C9. My range report sounds much like yours: flawless operation, soft recoiling.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=716354

 

[Kiln]

Just for trivia, a .25 ACP will not break an old AT&T phone, won't even make it quit ringing....

With phones, it is all about shot placement.

Now on to the topic at hand. The Hi Point is very huge, heavy, and extremely ugly. I've almost bought one several times but always found a better deal ($180 Norinco TT33 clone) in the same store and passed up the HP.

I'm a fan of cheap guns, especially when they work. I wish I'd known more about these when I bought my first gun, instead I bought a Raven MP25 (100 bucks) which works great but the .25acp doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

Ran about 200 FLAWLESS rounds through it using the 6 mags.

I paid nearly six times the price of that Hi-Point for a gun that choked on the second shot I ever fired through it, then later went on to shed parts to be mixed with the brass on the range floor. :banghead: The first-generation 9mm carbine I shot may have hit every branch of the ugly tree on the way to the mud fence, but it also performed similarly.

 

[Deaf Smith]

If I had to arm 1/2 Billion Chinese or Indian soldiers with handguns the High Point would be the obvious choice. Very cheap to make and work reasonably well. In fact the High Point 9mm carbines would be issued out to.

Only change I'd make is for them all to use Glock 17 mags.

Deaf

 

[golfer_ray]

I may have posted this previously, but I've had too much alcohol since to remember. A good friend at work was burglarized while he was at work, stealing all his firearms. It took insurance a while to reimburse him, & money was tight, so he got a Hi Point 45. He took his CCW class with it, & others looked at it funny, & commented on the noise when they were at the range. Then they got very quiet when they saw the huge holes in the center of the targets.