Hi. This is Joel Persinger. I'm the GunGuy.
Thank you very much for watching my
channel. I really, deeply do appreciate
the fact that you do. I'm gonna show you
a gun today that has been on my, "Gee I want
one of those" lists for a really long,
long time. I bet you have a list like
that too and one of the guns on my, "Gee I
want one of those" list happens to be a
Browning Hi-Power. They've been
made for a long time.
This is an older one and it's possible
that this might be a Nazi Hi-Power. It has
been nickeled. That was very
common. You see these old guns and
somebody nickeled them, because they
thought it looked cool.
Unfortunately, in doing so they cover up
a lot of the marks and proof marks and
stuff that you want to be able to see.
That's kind of the case here. I'm going
to show you
close-up images of those, as close as I
can get, so that maybe you can help
me determine whether it is what I think
it is. It's not mine. It was lent to me by
a collector who suspects it might
be a Nazi gun too. These guns were
designed initially by John Moses
Browning in part... because he passed away
before it was done unfortunately.
John Browning was arguably one of the
finest, most prolific gun designers ever
to grace us with his presence on this
earth and certainly was a terrific
salesman who was really good about
selling his designs. Good grief! I could
give you a list of the many, many, many,
many, many guns that Mr. Browning
designed and this was one of them.
This was originally commissioned by the
French military because they wanted a
new sidearm. They had a specific list
of requirements as military's often
do. They wanted the gun to be relatively
compact. Now, if you pick up one by
today's standards, we're used to picking
up polymer pistols, you'll say, "Wow. that thing's
heavy!"
It's all metal. That's why. But, for
those standards at the time it was
fairly compact. This is around 1914,
1920... right around in
those days. So, one was its compactness.
They wanted that. The other was that
military side arms and semi-automatic
sidearms in general had a relatively
limited magazine capacity. They wanted
something that would hold
at least ten rounds. A magazine had to hold
at least ten rounds and so they designed
this magazine, which holds, I think 13.
But ten was
the limit as to how few it could hold
for the design requirement for the
French military. Well, this one met that
requirement. They also wanted it to
have a magazine disconnect. That's
when you take the magazine
out of the gun, press the trigger and the
hammer will not fall. That was a magazine
disconnect. You probably have seen those
with guns that come out to California
and so on. They now require that. I've
always hated those things, but
nevertheless, that's something that the
French military wanted incorporated into
this new service pistol.
They also wanted an external hammer, a
manual safety like the thumb safety that
is on the gun... they wanted the gun to be
pretty robust and strong. They wanted it
to be easily field stripped so that it
could be cleaned and maintained in the
field and it also had to be able to
impact an enemy out to 50 yards with some
Authority. So, having it be a 380 or
something like that was not going to be
sufficient. So that meant... really the
the design had to incorporate at minimum
a 9-millimeter type cartridge. As I
mentioned, the French wanted a gun that
was easily field stripped and this gun
is about as simple to take apart as
you're ever going to get.
I marvel at the simplicity, actually.
You'll notice if you look, that there is
a little notch for the safety and then
it appears there's a little notch for
the safety. So, if I allow the slide to go
forward you can see if it engage the
safety
there's a little thing that goes into
that notch and locks the slide in place
at the same time... similar to a 1911 in
that regard. Then if I retract the
slide all the way the rear and lock it
in place with my slide stop, you'll
notice there's another little notch for
the safety right there. If I press
the slide back a little bit further, I
can engage that. Now, that is not so much
for keeping the gun safe as it is for
positioning the gun to be field stripped
for cleaning. If I then do this and turn
the gun over, you will notice the other
side of my slide stop... that little button
sticking out there. All I have to do
is press on that button. I have to align
my slide stop up a little bit so it'll
clear, press the button and the slide
stop pops right out. How about that!
That's about as
easy as it gets. Then if I just put a
little rearward pressure on the slide
and disengage the safety, I can now slide
the slide entirely off the pistol.
How about that! That leaves me with the
frame, the slide stop and the slide and
the other two parts that are going to come
out of there in order for me to clean
the gun... which would be the guide rod and
return spring and the barrel. And that's
it. That's about what you've got. In
order to put it back together, you just
do it in reverse. Put the barrel back in.
Get your guide rod and spring and
replace those. Now, you'll notice on the
end of the guide rod there's this little
hole. That's what the slide stop is going to
go through when it's all lined up. And
you'll notice that the whole can be kind
of down a little bit or up a little bit.
You want it to be down so that when you
put it back in the slide it looks like
that. If you reverse it, you'll see if I
reverse it that you'll notice your slide
is misaligned or your guide rod
rather, is misaligned. see how it's lying down
like that. That's not what you want. So, if
you do that accidentally and get one of these
and go, "Ok well, I remember that because that old
bearded weirdo on GnunGuyTV showed
me how to do it." So there. Anyway, that's
how that goes.
You want it to be lined up straight.
There are some little things in here that,
when you turn the slide this way, they
tend to fall down and so you'll try to
get the slide on the frame and it won't
want to go. I'm not a gunsmith. So I
can't give you all the technical terms and
like that. But, what I have discovered is
if you hold the slide upside down like
this and then you take the frame and you
line the frame up and then slide the
frame onto the gun this way, then you
don't have to fight all that resistance
and you're not fighting with the pistol.
The other thing you'll notice is if you
lay the gun flat like this before you
retract the slide further, again those
things don't pop up and get in your way.
So, if you lay it flat, retract the slide
and engage that safety in that notch,
that now has positioned the pistol so
that your slide stop will go right back
in their. The little holes are already
aligned. All you have to do is insert
your slide stop and press it all the way
through. Now you can disengage your
safety. Your pistol is
back together and working perfectly.
Obviously, I got this gun and I raced
down to the rainbow range so that I
could shoot it, because I really like the
Browning Hi-Power. I have always liked
them and always wanted one. I don't have one.
But, if I ever get one you can rest
assured there will be a video about it.
In the meantime, I shot this one quite a
bit and I must express my gratitude to
the collector who owns it who permitted me
to take it to the range and shoot it. Some
collectors don't want you to do that.
This one allowed me to and I'm very
grateful.
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