I think they should make a model with room to mount a red dot and a rail for a light. Awesome pistoles but they will die without these, IMO
No, this is not one of those, this is a resurrection of a "purists gun", and I think to add those features would detract from sales. There's enough "Wundernines" out there with all of that, these are for a different clientele. This won't be a seller to a guy that would otherwise be looking for a Sig 320 or a G19MOS.
No, this is not one of those, this is a resurrection of a "purists gun", and I think to add those features would detract from sales. There's enough "Wundernines" out there with all of that, these are for a different clientele. This won't be a seller to a guy that would otherwise be looking for a Sig 320 or a G19MOS.
Springfield's website pictures are definitely appealing to a retro point of view.
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My distributor listing (RSR Group) shows the SA-35 as a Girsan...so a Turkish gun manufacturer is punching them out for Springfield? Made under license?
I had one yrs ago, yanked the mag disco and changed sights, added C&S safety.
Nice rig. Shot great.
Aint nothin wrong w a P35, even if taken off the range
Sounds like mine. Yanked the mag disconnect last week. Doing so took a few pounds off the trigger pull, and eliminated all the sponginess in the take up.
Nobody has fingered one yet, and the snobbery is already a thing.
This thing will appeal to boomers and even older guys. Squinty eyed dudes. Right after they squint over the sights, some will want a dot.
Like 1911s, would buy a HP in a heartbeat. If it was cheap enough. Same with a CZ. (Too many guns to need anyyhing, or pay too much)
But let's be real. These are guns built for a specific purpose. Time and tech has marched on. If they weren't obsolete, They would be commonly issued. They are actually about 2 gun generations behind.
Junk?
Hell no. I can appreciate well machined tools as much as the next guy. They are beautiful when well done.
But to insinuate they are somehow better than the newer generation, that's foolish.
Love my 1911. Just to sit and mess with it is satisfying. Very nice to shoot. But when I want a tool? I can pick up a lighter, higher capacity, more durable, weather resistant tool.
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In the olden days Hi-Powers were sometimes referred to as "Fighting Pistols".
So were Walker Colts, and AT THE TIME, they were. There's nothing wrong with a BHP to take in harms way, there are better tools available 85 years later though.
But let's be real. These are guns built for a specific purpose. Time and tech has marched on. If they weren't obsolete, They would be commonly issued.
Um, it is commonly still issued.
By what first world, well equipped units. That have funding and are equipped with modern gear.
Repeat, they are not junk. Not even close. I wouldn't hesitate to have one in a glovebox, or a 1911.
HMC. mentioned Walker Colt's. Sure wouldn't choose that for the glove box. (Big dam glove box) But if it had been loaded recently and ANTIFA was beating on the glass. It would be darn nice to have. But not as nice as a Glock, M&P, or 320.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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As far as I'm aware the Canadian Armed Forces is still issuing Inglis made HP to everyone but some of the door kickers. I want to say JTF2 use something else, perhaps a Sig of some sort?
Talking to guys who used them in Afghanistan, the only gripe was lousy magazines, but otherwise I didn't hear any reports of them not working.
Up to a couple years ago Australia still issued them, but I'm not sure what they're issuing now.
There's talk of replacing the Inglis with a polymer frame pistol, but as fast as the Armed Forces gets anything procurement wise accomplished, everyone else will have phazers before they get it all done.
I already have a craptastic plastic pistol, but these intrigue me, as it's damned near a carbon copy of the old Mk II I had back in the 1990s. It was one helluva shooter, I flat-wore that thing out. Yeah, I wanna recreate those "good old days" and there's not a danged thing wrong with that (and I shoot them a lot better than the craptastic plastic, too). I also dote on 1911s and revolvers, how about that?
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Yup and totally functional. It is however a couple hundred bucks more expensive than the typical tupperware POS, and doesn't have the 9lb trigger that police departments require to keep their knuckledraggers from shooting themselves and each other, so it will never be a big seller in that market.