Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Any Hi Power experts here?

Was wanting to add a shooter grade Hi Power to my collection, ran across this one and it wasnt priced much more than refinished Israeli trade in.

I was planning on sending it off for a beavertail and some other modifications but after getting it I feel like this sample is better off with a collector. Any ideas on what it is, what the proofs mean or approx value would be appreciated.

Best I can tell its a mod fifties Austrian Police contract pistol. Everything is original, including the 2 mags that match the Austrian Police stampings. Only detractions are the magazine disconnect is gone and there are a few marks on top of the slide and sides. Otherwise, Id say its in pretty damn good shape for a gun of this type and year. If anyone here happens to have the magazine disconnect from this vintage, id happily buy it from you to get it back to its original form.







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Proof marks, from what I gather the partial square with a number indicate the year of manufacture and the partial square depending on which side is missing will indicate the quarter in which it was produced?

Magwell


Left side:


Trigger guard:


Front Strap:

Barrel:




Left slide:


Magazines:

Rear breach block

Nice old Hi Power ! First thing I always did on one I bought was remove the magazine disconnect to get a better trigger.

I guess your wanting to make it all original again?

If so, I’d check with my local gunsmith. I bet they removed a lot of them over the years.

Dammit, Hi Powers are good looking pistols! Just dead sexy!

I would have to pull it, and take it apart to compare it, but i think i have one of those, reconize the lgk marks. Top of my head, when i did the research on mine it was made circa 1948 or 1949 for the austrian police.
I think there is some data on the internet referencing them.
I don't think i would ever modify the one i have, it's still original.
Imported here some years back.
I shot it one time out of curiousity and it worked fine.

one of the things, and i am probably not remembering correctly, they had the internal extractor rather than external, and it doesn't have that circle above the trigger on the right side as many hipowers do.

your post prompted me to revisit the austrian police hi power. try google fu, lots of stuff describing them. evidently eight different contracts on purchasing them, but interesting made similar to the WWII production guns.
the lgk was the political subdivision in austria gun went to.
https://forums.1911forum.com/showthread.php?t=896066

wow that is a sexy hi power