Super sweet HP. I'll always enjoy seeing pics of custom HPs. I've had several and they are really a fun (and super accurate) gun to shoot. I had a SW 3914 worked over by Karl some 20+? years ago and he was great to deal with and really did an amazing job. Nice guy.
Very nice. Congrats.
Karl doesn't get much press nowadays. I was glad to find that he's still working.Originally Posted by fpnunes
Looks perfect
Karl's a great dude and a fellow Vermonter. Love that HP and I'll bet you got a good story or two from Karl.
Last edited by newt; 10-18-2019 at 08:33 AM.
That will be a great pistol; hope to see it looking mostly worn out in about a year.
I’m very interested in the positive thumb safety engagement. My Mars is good. My C&S was not as good.
Last edited by JAD; 10-18-2019 at 08:42 AM.
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I'm actually playing with the idea of taking it to a Gabe White class at the end of this month. That might be an interesting way to break it in and get a feel for it.
Yes. Pretty close. Probably the only thing it might need would be an ambi safety. Maybe some tritium sights.
Williams and Sokol are short-list Hi-Power custom mastersmiths; very cool you have examples of both. Would be great to hear a compare-and-contrast assessment of their approaches to the HP from a shooter's perspective...
ETA: "Thumb Safety Mod for Positive Engagement" What's this?
Last edited by Wingate's Hairbrush; 10-20-2019 at 11:35 AM.
Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain’t that a big enough majority in any town?
Well, the Williams pistol is more of a fit and finish. The only work done was to flatten the feed ramp and fit Novak sights. The Sokol gun is more or less a complete build. Probably the only other thing I could have done to the Sokol gun would have been a match fit barrel. That's excluding the possible options of tritium sights and maybe an ambi safety.
The safety on this pistol had a quite indistinct feel when moving the safety on and off. I don't know yet what Karl did to make it more positive. Did he deepen the dimples in the frame or add more of a point to the detent? Maybe a little of both.
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