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Dillonbuck,
Thanks for the reply. I see your points. I think that for me however this SA-35 checks an awful lot of boxes and I plan to get one.
It's larger and heavier than some, yes. But slimmer than many ( including the CZ75). I'm a fairly large guy and I'm not concerned about the extra weight. Recently bought a couple of stout Hank's belts, very happy about that. Currently carry a full sized 1911.
Difference in price between this gun and a subcompact polymer 9 is not significant enough to make a difference for me as I'm not buying a truckload of them just the one.
Anyway lots of options to enjoy, no fun owning only one!

Better than guns that use switches instead of triggers.


Modern plastic Tonka trucks suck too. My grandkids tell me that. They know toys.

They are cool. Well done, super cool.
And they will do everything they always have.
I'd darn sure enjoy playing with one, if it didn't bite.
And thankfully there isn't any law (yet) that we all have to
use the same tools.

As for price, that's retail.
Plastic guns have a tremendous margin.
In competitive bidding, if you can believe rumors,
they are sold for a fraction of the price we would pay.

Forged, machined guns cost a lot more to make.

I want one, and I will tell you, a stock BHP trigger is anything BUT "good", BUT, you can MAKE it good without too much work. If I find one of these at a good price, I'll grab it as a companion to my Browning GP Comp, which, with old Navidrex checkered grips with palm swells and a C&S safety, points and shoots like a magic wand. Some people that grew up around them really came to love the way one felt. I even liked the Pachmayr grips that came on the Practical models back in the 90's.

Nice pistol, wish it had an ambi safety and mag release.

Ok, for those of you with experience with Browning High Power pistols. How do they function with hollow point defensive type ammo. I have been told and have read that BHP will only work 100% reliable with hardball ammo or hollow points with very small openings. Is this true or not for all BHP or just the older models?

Whomever told you that is extremely ill informed period. That said older BHPs are not +P rated.

So are these new Springfield P35 rated for +P? Where can that info be found?

Yes, +P rated. Very few are for sale yet although a couple are on gunbroker.

I'm about the 3,345,567th greatest living expert on Hi Powers but IIRC the feed ramp angle or shape was changed sometime in the late 70's or 80's to provide better reliability with the hollow point ammo that was just becoming more widespread.

Those of you ranked 1,000,000th highest expert or above feel free to expound on this.

The 'hump' was removed from the feed ramp with the advent of the Mk II in 1982. However, prior to Mec-Gar the magazines held the round at a flatter angle for hardball. In my experience simply switching to Mec-Gar mags solved any problems and the humped barrel ran just fine.

I just looked up the manufacture date of my Browning Hi Power. It was made in 2009. So that was 9 years before they stopped offering it.

This ^^^

The old ones (humped ramp) were sometimes picky with OAL loading the old (first design) Gold dots.

As far as +P 9mm in older BHP models. Just don't shoot a $h!t load of it.

https://hipowersandhandguns.com/classic_hi_power%20sport%20model.htm

Some good info here.^^^