Like others, I want to see the new BHP succeed, but I can't cease recalling the dud handguns that FN has produced in the last 15 years. I hope that the "design committee" that came up with the other pistols did not monkey with the Hi-Power.
Like others, I want to see the new BHP succeed, but I can't cease recalling the dud handguns that FN has produced in the last 15 years. I hope that the "design committee" that came up with the other pistols did not monkey with the Hi-Power.
Originally Posted by MistWolf
I was pricing stag grips for the SA35...
Personally, I think Johnson should have equipped Walt with a Model 28.
I was into 10mm Auto before it sold out and went mainstream, but these days I'm here for the revolver and epidemiology information.
I don't think Craig Johnson is firearms savvy enough to have done something like that.
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The 1911 Walt carried in Viet Nam as a Marine MP is the right choice.
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I think you are correct. He does have a fondness for Browning over/under shotguns, and some facility with blasting clay birds with them, however.
The richer narrative would have been this:
Walt has a somewhat conflicted relationship with his Vietnam service (already established in the books.) Thus he tucks away the 1911 in his foot locker. While sheriffin' he carries a Model 28, because in the 1970s, it was still wheel gun territory, and being a young man with a family he couldn't afford the fancier Model 27.
Then when it becomes clear that the violence of the war has followed Walt to Absaroka county, the 1911 comes out of the footlocker, and bodies start hitting the ground.
At least that's what I cooked up over whiskey in a bar in Montana with a guy I know.
I was into 10mm Auto before it sold out and went mainstream, but these days I'm here for the revolver and epidemiology information.
This dude’s rant on the new FN “Hipower” is epic:
You will never be a real FN Hi-power Mark III. You have no parts compatibility, you have no magazine compatibility, you have a full-length guiderod. You are an FN DAC twisted by minor aesthetic tweaks and the removal of double-action into a crude mockery of John Moses Browning and Dieudonne Saive’s perfection.
All the “reviews” you get are only for clickfarming. Behind your back people mock you. Your parent company is disgusted and ashamed of you, your “userbase” laugh at your ghoulish appearance behind closed doors.
Shooters are utterly repulsed by you. The over 80 year service record of the Hi-power has allowed men to sniff out cheap clones with incredible efficiency. Even clones which “pass” look uncanny and unnatural to a man. Your side profile is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a drunk guy to buy you, he’ll go straight back to the local gun store and put you up for consignment the second he gets a whiff of your extraction issues.
You will never be competitive. Your shills wrench out a fake video with plenty of slow-mo every single week and say you're "just as good", but deep inside you feel the higher bore axis and inferior ergonomics creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll be carelessly left in the glovebox of a 1998 Ford Escort, and be crushed along with the car when it's inevitably abandoned at the tow yard. Your manufacturer will discontinue you, disappointed at the lack of sales but relieved that they no longer have to have such an unfaithful "clone" in their lineup. They’ll put you in the discontinued section of the website mentioning the DAC you were a ripoff of, and every enthusiast for the rest of eternity will know a DAC is buried there. Your frame will rust and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a dust cover that is unmistakably generic.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
I've read some of the Longmire books and have enjoyed them for the most part. And while I don't recall any specific instances off the top of my head I'm fairly sure there have been cases where Walt "pulls back the receiver to charge the first bullet from the clip." Or words to that effect that are supposed to create a dynamic moment but also serve to show the author's lack of firearms knowledge.
Not unique to Longmire in any way and I'm not reading the books for firearms knowledge. But still, more correct info/terminology is out there with minimal amounts of research.
With all that said, Mr. Johnson may have a good grasp and is writing that way with the understanding that many readers would be completely confused by magazines, cartridges and terms like Condition One.
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That’s good outline for a character. But it’s out of character for Walt Longmire. Too many changes too soon.
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This guy (smglee) says that this new Hi Power uses Beretta magazines and that the beavertail portion is modular:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CY9VRkVp...dium=copy_link
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Brutal. Here's the source.
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