What do you think when you hear "High-Power"?

[HMMurdock]

I was just musing about the mental associations one makes when you think of particular firearms. A wooden stocked 12-gauge makes me think of old cop movies. Big revolvers make me think of woodsmen. Lorcen .380s make me think of street thugs. But what do you associate the Browning Hi-Power 9mm with?

Secret Agent? Sleek, black BHP. Drug Dealer? Pimped-out BHP. Redneck? BHP with wood grips. 3rd World Country Militia? BHP knock-off. Woman? Pearl-handled BHP.

I'm just playing with stereotypes here and I don't mean to offend ("Hey, I have a pimped-out BHP knock-off with pearl grips and I'm not a female drug dealer from in Durka-Durkistan!?!"). I'm just making a point that the the BHP seems versatile, at least in my views of it, when it comes to who has them. Anyone else care to chime in on this or am I just voicing a skewed misunderstanding?

And for the record, I'm looking to sport a BHP with walnut grips and I'm not a redneck

 

[El Tejon]

Centerfire rifle.

 

[damien]

I have a two-tone by Browning with Pachmayr grips. Hopefully that is associated with computer programmers.

 

[BamBam-31]

I think of Stephen A. Camp.

 

[sm]

But what do you associate the Browning Hi-Power 9mm with?

-A very well made , proven, handsome, firearm.
-Mentors, ladies and gents growing up as a kid.
-Mentors, friends and folks that carried BHPs in combat situations.
-Feeling comforted and confident Carrying a BHP myself.
- John Browning of course comes to mind as well.

 

[boredelmo]

Me.

also associate: Omnipotent with myself too

 

[SaMx]

service rifle competition

 

[Canuck-IL]

High Power

1. 200, 300, 600 rifle competition
2. Browning/FN 9mm pistol
3. Foaming bathroom scum remover

/Bryan

 

[Thernlund]

Centerfire rifle.

+1. But I don't own a Browning, yet.

 

[Vonderek]

Class...elegant design. The rare invention that performs as good as it looks.

 

[MT GUNNY]

Cheep!! or am I thinkin of high point?

 

[strat81]

I think of what a 1911's daughter would look like. Kinda like dad, but curvy, and with a double-stack.

 

[10-Ring]

Me, I think of my 2-tone practical BHP w/ wooden grips

 

[perpster]

93 Octane

 

[TexasRifleman]

A Garand

 

[everallm]

Next purchase......

"Honey, no I didn't get another Evil Black Pistol......would I fib to you..."

 

[Autolite]

Browning HP = Model T Ford. Simple, rugged, functional. It's the granddaddy of everything that followed...

 

[alucard0822]

I think of what a 1911's daughter would look like. Kinda like dad, but curvy, and with a double-stack.

ding ding ding, we have a winner

 

[igor]

God-awful no-good piece of junk you're better off throwing at the enemy.

This comes from the truly miserable double-action specimens with decocker safeties the Finnish Army acquired in the early '80's. Puny sights and an entirely messed up trigger pull.

I took part in an exercise last year and wound up in the pistol range with one of these POS... I managed to keep seven of the ten shots on the paper in a "group" of close to a meter in diameter - from ten meters' distance!!!

No flak for marksmanship either, I was second best in my group, and I shoot IPSC and military 3-gun with and SP-01, thousands of rounds yearly. I do know how to shoot a pistol.

Now, OTOH, an IPSC buddy has a real old nickel-plated single-action BHP with "artillery" sights... that is something else entirely.

 

[springmom]

Class...elegant design. The rare invention that performs as good as it looks.

Exactly. I think "my favorite handgun"

God-awful no-good piece of junk you're better off throwing at the enemy.

Heretic.

Springmom

 

[ranger335v]

"High Power" = center fire

"High Caliber" = media ignorance

 

[RadioHack]

L9a1

 

[Sistema1927]

P35

and

"Thank God I had one."

 

[Cosmoline]

When I hear "high power" I think of match rifles.

"Hi-Power" is something else

 

[81k5guy]

This is gonna sound stupid but for some reason when somebody says High Power I always think of Hi-point.I always get those two mixed up .