Posted February 22, 2018 4:11 pm by Comments

By Patrick Sweeney

The FN Mark III Hi Powers are tough enough to stand up to a heavy shooting schedule. This FBI HRT clone was built by Wayne Novak and went 23,000 rounds with no broken parts.

The FN Mark III Hi Powers are tough enough to stand up to a heavy shooting schedule. This FBI HRT clone was built by Wayne Novak and went 23,000 rounds with no broken parts.

My introduction to the Hi Power came at The Gun Room, a store that used to be in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. We had a shop party at the boss’ country home one weekend. We were, of course, shooting everything imaginable because we were all into not-­the-­usual firearms. I was eventually handed a Hi Power.

To give you the full impact of that moment, it was a commercial-­blued, tangent-­sighted Browning and slotted for a stock. It wore Nazi proofs and was pristine. I loaded it up and hammered away.

Hmm, I thought to myself. The recoil seems a bit sharper than I’d expect from a 9mm.

When I was done, the owner looked over in horror, and asked, “What are you doing?”

I looked down and remarked, “Bleeding, I think.”

Hammer bite was the cause of that “sharp” sensation, and the web of my hand was now wet with blood. You could say that I learned to keep my hand out of the way of that hammer, at least until I met a …Read the Rest

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