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 Aug 19 2009, 03:42 PM
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 Looks for Range  Group: Members Posts: 21 Joined: 7-July 06 Member No.: 8565  |
I've toyed with the idea of running a 9mm Hi-Point as a second gun in our local Steel Challenge matches, just to see what the difference in score would be. Same shooter, same ammo, same course of fire and round count, the only difference being the guns. The only reason I haven't is because I've got better things to spend $150 on than a Hi-Point pistol and a set of magazines.
Regarding the reputation that Hi-Points have for being reliable, I don't really find it terribly remarkable. They're straight-blowback guns chambered in calibers that generate pressure levels that by any rational measure are excessive for a blowback design. Of course they're going to be reliable. |
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Sep 3 2009, 02:23 PM
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 Sees Sights Group: Classified Posts: 283 Joined: 25-January 08 From: Nebraska Member No.: 13593 |
I have a friend who is very good with a Hi Point 9mm. It's his only handgun!
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Sep 4 2009, 05:08 AM
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 Finally read the FAQs Group: Classified Posts: 128 Joined: 31-March 09 From: Wilmington Ohio Member No.: 18642 |
I own a hi-point carbine. It is the only firearm that has NEVER failed once. To make it even better I run junk ammo through it and my reloads that fail inspection. It has a trigger that's like breaking a green tree branch, but for $100 and running 100%. I give them a big thumbs up.
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Sep 4 2009, 12:46 PM
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 Sees Sights Lift Group: Classified Posts: 495 Joined: 28-September 04 From: Goat Island,ms Member No.: 4535 |
well...if nothing else try this....
SIG SAUER - Gives you $200 "CASH For your KLUNKER* Handgun" Purchase a new SIG SAUER® P220®, P226®, P229®, 1911, SIG556 pistol, or SIG556 rifle from your dealer's inventory from September 7th through November 30th, 2009, and SIG SAUER will give you $200.00 for your old KLUNKER* pistol or revolver. To receive your $200.00 payment, simply send your old KLUNKER* with a copy of your form 4473 and proof of purchase of your new Classic pistol (no later than Friday, December 4, 2009) to: SIG SAUER, Inc., 18 Industrial Drive, Exeter, NH 03833, ATTN: CK-1 *KLUNKER refers to a handgun from any manufacturer that you wish to trade in for the $200.00 payment. Gun must be operational and free from cracks in frame or other key components. KLUNKER must be a semi-auto pistol 9mm or larger, or revolver of .38 caliber or larger. SIG SAUER reserves the right to reject any firearm submitted as a KLUNKER that does not meet our criteria. Rejected firearms will be returned to sender. Please allow six (6) to eight (8) weeks for delivery of your check. This offer cannot be combined with any other program or offer. Klunkers will not be accepted for payment after Friday, December 4, 2009. NO EXCEPTIONS. All transactions subject to federal, state and local firearms regulations. Click HERE for more information. -------------------- Don't argue with an idiot,people watching may not be able to tell the difference. G'
SSES member #50,matches my age....rock on !! You may disappoint me but that only means we adjust fire and go in another direction. I will continue to shoot in the men's division, win, lose, or draw. The Wildman. CDP MASTER :Stanley K Smith 1/22/09 may you "RIP" "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president...." --Theodore Roosevelt |
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Sep 4 2009, 06:26 PM
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 Finally read the FAQs Group: Classified Posts: 128 Joined: 17-March 08 From: Dexter. MO Member No.: 14188 |
Now wait a minute. Aren't we supposed to be trying to get new shooters? Haven't we been trying to dispell the myth that you have to invest most of your kids education money to get into our sport? I thought we were supposed to have a "run what you brung" attitude! Seriously, if someone shows up with a High Point, show them how to be safe and walk them through a COF with their pump action pistol. Then offer to let them shoot yours and let them see the difference. THEN they'll happily send their kids to community college!!!
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Vis=Power Celeritis=Speed IPSC is where it all comes together! |
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Sep 5 2009, 07:21 AM
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Sees Sights Group: Classified Posts: 343 Joined: 28-May 06 From: Pueblo West, CO. Member No.: 8280 |
You are going to spend practically as much on magazines, holster, mag holders as you would on the gun. In a year you will more then likely want to shoot a better gun and wonder why you wasted the money outfitting a Hi Point. If you have what you need to compete already by all means bring it out. You will have fun I am sure.
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Sep 5 2009, 07:48 AM
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 Story Teller Group: Moderators Posts: 9159 Joined: 2-May 01 From: Tacoma, WA Member No.: 604 |
QUOTE and wonder why you wasted the money outfitting a Hi Point. "Because it's there." 
-------------------- Pride and fear are emotions, which hope for an outcome. Outcomes take your attention from the present, where the shooting happens, to the future. It is totally impossible to do anything in the future, because it hasn't happened yet. The key to shooting your best is to be present as the witness of the shooting. Do not judge, do not give yourself anything to live up to. We can only shoot as well as we have trained ourselves to shoot. To try to shoot only induces stress. Be content with your current ability. And accumulate practice to improve that ability. Consolidate, build strength where you feel weakness. We cannot raise our ability until we accept our current limitations. Practice dissolves limitations. Matches simply define where the current limits exist. The game of shooting is all about redefining our limits.
- Sam Amateurs do it til they get it right. Professionals do it til they can't get it wrong. "It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters." - Paul "Bear" Bryant "The only reason why Everest is the highest mountain ever climbed is because it's the highest. If there was one higher, I bet there'd be people trying to climb it." - Jack Barnes |
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Sep 5 2009, 10:22 AM
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Sees Sights Group: Classified Posts: 343 Joined: 28-May 06 From: Pueblo West, CO. Member No.: 8280 |
QUOTE (Duane Thomas @ Sep 5 2009, 08:48 AM)  QUOTE and wonder why you wasted the money outfitting a Hi Point. "Because it's there." QUOTE (Soap @ Jul 15 2009, 08:12 AM) The first part of the adventure would have been to buy four of these and send them off to a gunsmith for a trigger job and have the internals and mags done in NP3... that alone would have been very challenging, but not impossible. They don't even own the things yet. |
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Sep 5 2009, 11:32 AM
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Story Teller Group: Moderators Posts: 9159 Joined: 2-May 01 From: Tacoma, WA Member No.: 604 |
He's joking, guys.
-------------------- Pride and fear are emotions, which hope for an outcome. Outcomes take your attention from the present, where the shooting happens, to the future. It is totally impossible to do anything in the future, because it hasn't happened yet. The key to shooting your best is to be present as the witness of the shooting. Do not judge, do not give yourself anything to live up to. We can only shoot as well as we have trained ourselves to shoot. To try to shoot only induces stress. Be content with your current ability. And accumulate practice to improve that ability. Consolidate, build strength where you feel weakness. We cannot raise our ability until we accept our current limitations. Practice dissolves limitations. Matches simply define where the current limits exist. The game of shooting is all about redefining our limits.
- Sam Amateurs do it til they get it right. Professionals do it til they can't get it wrong. "It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters." - Paul "Bear" Bryant "The only reason why Everest is the highest mountain ever climbed is because it's the highest. If there was one higher, I bet there'd be people trying to climb it." - Jack Barnes |
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Oct 8 2009, 12:04 PM
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Looks for Range Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 8-October 09 Member No.: 21385 |
A buddy of mine and I have joked about this.
We keep running into a bunch of goons at IDPA matches, and they are always telling us about their new trigger job, new sights, new reload/spring combo's, sewing weights into their vests...etc. They constantly keep trying to tell us how we should shoot, despite the fact that we consistently shoot better than them, with street gear. I run a stock G19 and typically finish in the top 5 shooters (local matches), getting most accurate more often than not. My buddy shoots a little faster, but uses a G34. We had chatted about how funny it would be to win with a Hi-Point over guys running gamed out rigs in IDPA. If we do it, I'll make sure to post pics and match results.
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Oct 9 2009, 06:44 PM
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 All Seeing and All Knowing Eye Group: Admin Posts: 28180 Joined: 2-May 01 From: Ohio (Columbus, McConnelsville) Member No.: 690 |
QUOTE (Duane Thomas @ Aug 16 2009, 11:40 PM) QUOTE Heres another link for a short sleeve on for sale: http://www.productwizard.com/hipointfirearmsclothing.html Why the logo that looks like a German Iron Cross, I wonder? Why not, I wonder? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Cross -------------------- Have FUN....be safe...and, instead of worrying about what you are "suppose to do" - - notice what you are doing. Ask yourself why. See if it meshes with where you want to go.
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Nov 7 2009, 09:43 AM
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 Finally read the FAQs Group: Classified Posts: 120 Joined: 23-September 09 From: the sticks Member No.: 21154 |
QUOTE (synergy @ Oct 8 2009, 11:04 AM) We keep running into a bunch of goons at IDPA matches, and they are always telling us about their new trigger job, new sights, new reload/spring combo's, sewing weights into their vests...etc. They constantly keep trying to tell us how we should shoot, despite the fact that we consistently shoot better than them, with street gear. lol -------------------- |
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Nov 8 2009, 05:53 PM
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Story Teller Group: Moderators Posts: 9159 Joined: 2-May 01 From: Tacoma, WA Member No.: 604 |
QUOTE I know what the Iron Cross was, I'm just wondering: why have a German Iron Cross as the logo for an American company? -------------------- Pride and fear are emotions, which hope for an outcome. Outcomes take your attention from the present, where the shooting happens, to the future. It is totally impossible to do anything in the future, because it hasn't happened yet. The key to shooting your best is to be present as the witness of the shooting. Do not judge, do not give yourself anything to live up to. We can only shoot as well as we have trained ourselves to shoot. To try to shoot only induces stress. Be content with your current ability. And accumulate practice to improve that ability. Consolidate, build strength where you feel weakness. We cannot raise our ability until we accept our current limitations. Practice dissolves limitations. Matches simply define where the current limits exist. The game of shooting is all about redefining our limits.
- Sam Amateurs do it til they get it right. Professionals do it til they can't get it wrong. "It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters." - Paul "Bear" Bryant "The only reason why Everest is the highest mountain ever climbed is because it's the highest. If there was one higher, I bet there'd be people trying to climb it." - Jack Barnes |
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Nov 8 2009, 11:02 PM
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Beaver Nub Group: Classified Posts: 1066 Joined: 16-June 04 From: Louisville, KY Member No.: 4050 |
You know what would be fun? A Mythbusters match.
Look, we all know there is a significant divide between the absolute top shooters and everyone else; you may have a GM card and you may win a stage at a major match occasionally, but you never had a chance to take down Max, or Dave, or Robbie, or Jerry. Face it. But there are those of us that have occasional moments of brilliance, and that would be a great basis to have an equipment test for the sport. Get one of the also-rans (me, needless to say) with their preferred gear, then get one of the big boys with a Hi-Point and no practice. The big boy gets to reshoot if the gun malfunctions, that's only fair, but otherwise has to fight through the grip, trigger, sights, etc. I'm saying that it still won't be enough for someone to beat the best. The rest of the folks are usually around 7-12% behind the front pack, I'm guessing it would move about 4%. H. |
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Nov 9 2009, 07:53 AM
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 Finally read the FAQs Group: Classified Posts: 69 Joined: 22-May 08 From: Bainbridge,Ga Member No.: 14870 |
That sounds like it would be a good challenge for BE to entertain! Anybody else vote for Brian to pick up a HP and head to the range?
-------------------- "An honest tune with a lingering lead has taken me this far"-Widespread Panic
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