Hi-point firearms

shameless dude wrote: me thinks he's trying to find a gun that will scare me if I shows up there one day!

Nope we gonna split some fire wood in the Arkansas humidity. Now that art to give you a good spookin.

The Hi-point firearms are a dependable ugly pistol but seems to be very dependable, keep one of the 45 cal under the seat of my truck. Also have 9mm pistol and .45 rifle. None will win a beauty contest but all very dependable. Leon

Leon n/c AR. wrote: The Hi-point firearms are a dependable ugly pistol but seems to be very dependable, keep one of the 45 cal under the seat of my truck. Also have 9mm pistol and .45 rifle. None will win a beauty contest but all very dependable. Leon

I have a 9mm and find it quite reliable.
I’m not really a hand gun guy.
I got Jenn a S&W M&P shield performance 9 mm. I traded my old table saw for the hi-point just because we have 9mm ammo.

.40S&W carbine. Everything is a surprise; the weight (yeah it's heavy but so is everything else), the price (LIKE YA STOLE IT!), and the accuracy (I have NO complaints; if it groups poorly the fault isn't the gun's).
And you're right, the only detractors I've met are non-owners.
I say go ahead and buy it. If you don't like it, sell it to me.

If that's the ones that used to be made in Mansfield Oh. and were called Stallard, in the early years had problems with jamming but I think they are a totally different animal now.

High Point Pistols are cheap, reliable and not for everyday carry. If it goes bang and hits what you aim at who am I to judge! I have an FNS 9 that I like very well. I also have a Taurus model 66 -7 shot 357 magnum. The pistol is heavy and can pull my pants down! I carry the 357 in a chest rig when hunting.

Seems to me I heard somewhere along the line they were originally designed as a cheap cops backup gun, then the reputation and weight put an end to that.

I have a Taurus 357 mag revolver and if it misfires it's on to the next round pulling the trigger. I hate messing with a shell that didn't fire, but at least there's no jam that could cost me.

Wait a minute, they weren't all that heavy were they? I remember coming across a pile of unmachined frames in a scrap yard once, they struck me as being big more than heavy. I do remember wondering what the heck they cast them out of, they looked like some kind of pot metal.

There were some slides mixed in the pile, they looked to be made of the same stuff. I don't doubt the zink part by the looks of them.

Edited by Walker - 22 Aug 2019 at 10:34am

Thad in AR. wrote: Walker wrote: There were some slides mixed in the pile, they looked to be made of the same stuff. I don't doubt the zink part by the looks of them. Walker, last year our Company built a new factory for Nighthawk Customs. They sure don’t leave any frames or slides laying around. They guard that stuff good. I sort of got to know one of the machinists and learned a little.

      It surprised me when I found them, there is a big difference in unmachined and machined though. No finished parts just rough castings. I don't know what the law is on it, another odd thing is the scrapyard was in a town 20 miles from Mansfield. The guy I knew that worked for them said when you tested them the serial numbers were recorded, time in and out and the whole works. Don't know what to tell ya there but believe me I don't enjoy typing enough to be making this up.

Chas, Chas, Chas... "THIS is my Rifle, THIS is my gun: This is for fightin', this is for fun."