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HiPoint Magazines?

HAIRYHAIRY Member Posts: 23,606
edited July 2002 in Ask the Experts
What magazines fit the 9mm Hi Point carbine? Have been told they use either Glock or S&W.

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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My Hi Point carbine uses a single stack 10rd mag so that would eliminate the two you mentioned.Unless your talking about their hand guns,Im sorry cant help you there!


    Good Luck.

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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nope they don't use either Glock or SW, they use their own mfg'ed single stack magazines.

    Marlin 9mm Camp carbines will accept S&W m59 magazines, if thats maybe what you've heard.



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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Kel-Tec Sub 2000 take either S&W or Glock, depending on the factory configuration, but not both. Maybe that was what you are thinking of.
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  • HAIRYHAIRY Member Posts: 23,606
    edited November -1
    Thanks guys. I guess the "gunsmith" didn't know what he was talking about.

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  • lrarmsxlrarmsx Member Posts: 791 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This isn't the first time a "gunsmith" didn't know when not to give advice. No offense to any gunsmiths out there. It is just that I had a woman tell me once that this gunsmith told her what her revolver was worth. Unfortunately he was way off,. It was an S&W M&P (pre-model 10). It was once a 5" barrel, it was now 2". It was once blue, now it was nickeled. It was once not rusty, then it was very rusty, now you could see the craters that were there before the nickel job. It was once in time and safe to shoot, it wasn't anymore. It once had all of its lock work, now the front locking lug under the barrel was missing. It was cut off when the barrel was cut down to 2". It was once possibly worth $150-200. Now given its condition, It was probably worth much less than $100. I about laughed when she told me that a gunsmith just looked at it and told her that it was worth $250. If he didn't notice that it was badly out of time and missing half of its lock work, he wasn't much of a gunsmith. He shouldn't have been giving any advice if he didn't know what he was talking about. Then again he may have been trying to pad the truth. Why, you might ask? Because the woman told me moments later, after I told her what it would be worth after $50-60 of gunsmithing, which was about $150-165.00. It was after that that she told me quite dramatically, "Well I paid over $500 for this gun." I told her that I would give her $90 for it. She just knew that "I" was the one scewing her. I bite my toungue and didn't tell her it was the gun dealer in Arizona 8 years earlier that charged her over $500, that had done that.

    Anyway, the gunsmith she talked to shouldn't have given advice on a gun that he either never looked at or knew so little about gunsmithing, that he didn't notice the serious problems that this gun had. I did end up with the gun for $90. I had a gentleman who had overheard the whole verbal exchange with this woman, say that he wouldn't have given her $50 for that gun. I said yes, but I got it off the street and my gunsmith could make it safe to shoot again before it ever saw the light of day again. I was right, it did end up selling for about $160 after I paid the gunsmith to fix the timing and add a new lock system to the front lockup. All said and done, no money was made on it, but at least it was safe again.

    I just know that woman left thinking that she had just been taken, when in fact it had been 8 years earlier when she had been screwed. Maybe the gunsmith that told her it was worth $250 just didn't want to appear to be the bad guy. No guts I guess.

    As for mis-information, unfortunately it happens all the time. I've seen it on the net as well as in real life. It would in fact be the Kel-Tec that will accept a Glock or S&W mag, depending on which it was set up for at the factory. The Kel-Tec will soon be available in a Beretta mag configuration as well as a Sig mag configuration in the near future. And if they can get with it, the .40 caliber models will be available sometime too.

    Unfortunately, the High Point carbines will only take a single stack magazine made exclusively for their gun. There are both factory and aftermarket ones available, but the largest capacity is only 10rds.
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wow, I didn't know that the Kel-Tec's came in configuration to take glock mags. I might have to get one, along with a subcompact glock to go with my full size, that way they'd all take the same mags if need be...

    Interesteing
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