Browning Hi-Power. Gorilla Spring !!!

[highrider]

Brought home a new Browning Hi-Power tonight. Nice gun. However, pulling back the slide on this sucker is like pulling back a garage door spring! Brutal. Now once the slide is locked back and the mag removed the pull is much easier. Anyone else have this experience? Hopefully after throwing a couple hundred rounds down range it will lighten up. I would hate to have to put a vice in my range bag for using to crank back that initial rack of the slide This gun may turn out to be the Bowflex that I've always wanted.

[techieguy]

Same thing on mine too. Easiest way to rack the slide is to pull the hammer back first. Another technique I've heard but haven't mastered is to hold the slide with your weak hand, then push the frame forward with your strong hand.

Enjoy.

Techieguy

[John C]

Highrider: welcome to old age . Nice to see posts by someone with mileage like mine.

I sold my HiPowers a while back but since you said the slide is easier to rack with the mag out I wonder if the problem is due to the extra friction from the kill switch linkage?

John C

[1FingrCHan]

I kinda like this pistol after comparing it to the CZ-75B. Nice and slim, and it seems to be a little "stylish" also. Have anyone experienced any hammer bite on this gun?


1FingrCHan

[highrider]

Thanks Guys. I'm glad that it's only my feebleness from old age and not the pistol because I really like it (the pistol - not the feebleness). Maybe they should come out with a new model "Practical OF"....... for us old farts.

[highrider]

I kinda like this pistol after comparing it to the CZ-75B. Nice and slim, and it seems to be a little "stylish" also. Have anyone experienced any hammer bite on this gun?


1FingrCHan

1FingrCHan, I just brought this gun home last night, so I naturally haven't fired it yet, but I noticed in the manual a mention to be careful about finger bite.

[John C]

It gets worse (the feebleness not the pistol). I use to have crosshair scopes on my pistols until I realized how much my arms shake even with the Weaver stance so I replaced them (the scopes not my arms) with red dot scopes .

John C

[LastManOut]

I kinda like this pistol after comparing it to the CZ-75B. Nice and slim, and it seems to be a little "stylish" also. Have anyone experienced any hammer bite on this gun?


1FingrCHan

I have not had any problem with racking the slide or gettin' bit, but then I've only fired about 200 rounds through mine, although this mid-1940's FN Browning was used when I got it.

On a side note, on a later model Hi-Power, how does the safety catch engage? I ask because the catch on mine is somewhat tough to engage/ disengage. If anyone has any experience with this knows if I could update to a newer style safety catch without modifying the slide or drilling the frame.

[John C]

I had an '80's 9 MM and a 90's .40 S&W HiPower but I recall the safety on the 90's model was tough to operate. I can't remember how the safety felt on the other HP's I owned. Never had hammer bite.

HTH, John C

[highrider]

Same thing on mine too. Easiest way to rack the slide is to pull the hammer back first. Another technique I've heard but haven't mastered is to hold the slide with your weak hand, then push the frame forward with your strong hand.

Enjoy.

Techieguy

You nailed it techieguy. Took the gun out to take it apart to clean it but first tried cocking the hammer and racking the slide. Much easier. Thanks.