FN GP35

[OLIAR15]

Living in the French part of Switzerland, the GP 35 designation (Grande Puissance) is the one commonly used here vs HP / High Power

Anyway, took a couple to the range recently and decided to snap a few family pictures of all six currently living here

1944 German Occupation / 1946 Danish issue / 1952 Belgian civilian or police

1981 7.65 mm (.30 Luger) / 1979 Capitan / 1980 competition

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Vintage with internal extractor

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Modern with external extractor

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The Capitan has a holster / stock

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[202]

Very nice!

[Ned Christiansen]

Very nice indeed, I love getting a chance to see how gun ownership is done outside the US.

Une question, mon ami-- on the Capitan, are the sight graduations for the various distances of any use, I mean, do they have some correlation to actual trajectory? They go to what, 500? 800? Do you have a place to test that?

[OLIAR15]

Very nice indeed, I love getting a chance to see how gun ownership is done outside the US.

Une question, mon ami-- on the Capitan, are the sight graduations for the various distances of any use, I mean, do they have some correlation to actual trajectory? They go to what, 500? 800? Do you have a place to test that?

They go upto 500 m

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And no, I’ve never shot it beyond 50 m, where it produced a nice grouping with the stock

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[jsbhike]

They go upto 500 m

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And no, I’ve never shot it beyond 50 m, where it produced a nice grouping with the stock

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Plug your ammo and sight offset numbers in to a ballistic calculator and figure out what your settings will give for a poa/poi offset at 50 yards like Novak does with an MG 08/15.


https://youtu.be/Wjl0p4hYzFw


Kinda curious if the longer range settings would even be possible or if it would be over the berm or in the ceiling.

[Bret]

That's quite a nice collection of Hi Powers. Is the availability of variations similar to those found in the U.S.? For example, are 40S&W, 9x21 or the Belgian aluminum framed Hi Powers available in Switzerland?

[OLIAR15]

That's quite a nice collection of Hi Powers. Is the availability of variations similar to those found in the U.S.? For example, are 40S&W, 9x21 or the Belgian aluminum framed Hi Powers available in Switzerland?

For 40S&W, 9x21 I have no idea since I am not interested in those calibers. I have seen a few aluminium frame for sale over the years.

[jyo]

Beautiful collection of Hi Power pistols---I was into P-35 pistols back in the day and had many---even carried a 1978 polished blue Hi Power with fixed sights for more than 12-14 years during the time I was managing gun stores here in Los Angeles California. Feed ramp altered to feed JHP by King's Gunworks and magazine safety removed by previous owner---nice trigger---very accurate pistol. Sold most of them---now have only two, the 1978 pistol and a rare FN marked (not Browning) pistol with the SFS trigger system factory installed---it shoots very well also...