BikerRN
05-06-09, 00:04
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I have to make a confession.
I love the GP-35. That's the High Power to some of you. While I like it in 9mm I love it in .40 S&W. I've bought two of them recently and while I've not cared for the round, as I feel a 9mm or a 45 can do everything the 40 can do, I love the gun that launches the projectile.
I've liked 1911's for years and admired the High Power from afar, not seeing very many of them in my formative years. Over dinner one day with a retired U.S. Customs Investigator friend he told me he was suprised that I didn't own a High Power.
I told him I hadn't seen very many of them over the years, so I had no real opinion of them. We went out shooting after dinner and he let me try his High Power. That was all it took, as I was hooked like a $2 whore on crack.
I shopped around and found a Practical Model, NIB and bought it. I set that one up as my EDC with Crimson Trace Laser Grips and Trijicon Green Front/Yellow Rear Night Sights. That's all I did to it. As far as I was concerned, it was everything I wanted in a fighting handgun.
I proceeded to order magazines and holsters for it, as well as a couple of different magazine pouches. In fact Matt Del Fatti is making me a Belt, Holster and Mag Pouch for it. That one will be my BBQ Rig and OWB. My other three holsters are IWB with one IWB Double Mag Pouch and one OWB Double Mag Pouch.
Needing a tax deduction this year I found a LNIB Standard, also in .40 S&W and purchased it, along with more ammo than I've ordered at one time before. I've shot up some of the ammo breaking the Practical in and taking Massad Ayoob's LFI 1 class recently.
I was amazed at the reliability, accuracy and dependability of the High Power. The only thing my Block does that I wouldn't ask my High Power to do is live in salt water for an extended period of time, like Katrina.
When I lay my High Power down next to a 1911, and I have been known to own one or two, my eye is drawn to the High Power. I see the 1911 as a Draft Horse while the High Power is a Race Horse. I finally came to understand what people meant when they say, "When John Browning designed the 1911 he hit a Home Run. When he designed the High Power he hit a Grand Slam."
As you may be able to tell, I'm a bit of a "traditionalist" and like classic guns. I started my career with a revolver and carried three off duty for the past couple of years. I do not feel undergunned with a good wheelgun and would even carry one at work if they let me.
I will give the edge to the autoloading platform for faster reloads, ammo capacity and ability to clear a malfunction quicker, but the revolver still has the edge in accuracy, ability to fire various rounds without feeding "issues", simplicity for the user and ability to fire higher pressure loads.
Every couple of years I carry a different platform so that I may stay current with what's out there, but that may change for me after twenty years of carrying various guns. I think I may have found the one and only platform for me, and the High Power is it for my "Primary" off duty carry gun. Of course I will still carry a BUG or two and they will be a revolver, unless I find a High Power Detective version.
OK, that is my confession regarding the High Power.
Biker
I have to make a confession.
I love the GP-35. That's the High Power to some of you. While I like it in 9mm I love it in .40 S&W. I've bought two of them recently and while I've not cared for the round, as I feel a 9mm or a 45 can do everything the 40 can do, I love the gun that launches the projectile.
I've liked 1911's for years and admired the High Power from afar, not seeing very many of them in my formative years. Over dinner one day with a retired U.S. Customs Investigator friend he told me he was suprised that I didn't own a High Power.
I told him I hadn't seen very many of them over the years, so I had no real opinion of them. We went out shooting after dinner and he let me try his High Power. That was all it took, as I was hooked like a $2 whore on crack.
I shopped around and found a Practical Model, NIB and bought it. I set that one up as my EDC with Crimson Trace Laser Grips and Trijicon Green Front/Yellow Rear Night Sights. That's all I did to it. As far as I was concerned, it was everything I wanted in a fighting handgun.
I proceeded to order magazines and holsters for it, as well as a couple of different magazine pouches. In fact Matt Del Fatti is making me a Belt, Holster and Mag Pouch for it. That one will be my BBQ Rig and OWB. My other three holsters are IWB with one IWB Double Mag Pouch and one OWB Double Mag Pouch.
Needing a tax deduction this year I found a LNIB Standard, also in .40 S&W and purchased it, along with more ammo than I've ordered at one time before. I've shot up some of the ammo breaking the Practical in and taking Massad Ayoob's LFI 1 class recently.
I was amazed at the reliability, accuracy and dependability of the High Power. The only thing my Block does that I wouldn't ask my High Power to do is live in salt water for an extended period of time, like Katrina.
When I lay my High Power down next to a 1911, and I have been known to own one or two, my eye is drawn to the High Power. I see the 1911 as a Draft Horse while the High Power is a Race Horse. I finally came to understand what people meant when they say, "When John Browning designed the 1911 he hit a Home Run. When he designed the High Power he hit a Grand Slam."
As you may be able to tell, I'm a bit of a "traditionalist" and like classic guns. I started my career with a revolver and carried three off duty for the past couple of years. I do not feel undergunned with a good wheelgun and would even carry one at work if they let me.
I will give the edge to the autoloading platform for faster reloads, ammo capacity and ability to clear a malfunction quicker, but the revolver still has the edge in accuracy, ability to fire various rounds without feeding "issues", simplicity for the user and ability to fire higher pressure loads.
Every couple of years I carry a different platform so that I may stay current with what's out there, but that may change for me after twenty years of carrying various guns. I think I may have found the one and only platform for me, and the High Power is it for my "Primary" off duty carry gun. Of course I will still carry a BUG or two and they will be a revolver, unless I find a High Power Detective version.
OK, that is my confession regarding the High Power.
Biker