My first experience with a High Power was one I shot back in 1988, or thereabout. It belonged to a friend of a friend. We all went out shooting together, and we all were taking turns shooting this guy's High Power. It was an old school High Power, with the small, non-clicky, safety, high polish blue, fixed sights. I knew then that I had to have one. My friend and I both ended up buying one shortly after that, but of the more modern design, with the better safety, flat black finish, which I believe is called a Mk III.