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Hi Power with tangent sights

skicatskicat Member Posts: 14,431 ✭
edited July 2014 in Ask the Experts
and no slot for a shoulder stock. Am I missing something? I thought the tangent sights were intended to be used with a stock for distance shooting. Do you find them this way often ?
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  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It is another of the FN variations, and is actually a little more common that the pistols slotted for the shoulder stocks.

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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a Lithuanian contract one that is both slotted for shoulder stock
    and has tangent sights This stock is made like a Broom Handle stock as it also acts as a holster Stay tuned for edit I will try to bring up pictures
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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There is different variations of H-P's, similar to the one your describing. The first were made during the German occupation of W W II.The second were commercial imports dating to the 60's/70's.

    It would be best if you posted quality photos of the pistol in question. Or at the very least a very detailed description of all markings.
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  • skicatskicat Member Posts: 14,431 ✭
    edited November -1
    I don't have pics to post. Just saw one recently with tangent sights and no slot and it made me wonder why. I thought the two were designed to go together like the ones pictured by Mark and Perry.

    Here I found one like I'm describing.

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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by skicat
    I don't have pics to post. Just saw one recently with tangent sights and no slot and it made me wonder why. I thought the two were designed to go together like the ones pictured by Mark and Perry.

    Here I found one like I'm describing.

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    Might have something to do with U.S. laws, prohibiting pistols with shoulder stocks?

    Many years ago I use to work with a old machinist who had a lathe in his garage. He had a milling fixture set up on it. He would use it to mill slots in the backstraps of the post war commercial High Powers. I forget how much he charged?
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  • machine gun moranmachine gun moran Member Posts: 5,198
    edited November -1
    That's the 'El Capitan' model, produced in the mid-'90's. They are comercially marked, and have the legend 'Made in Belgium - Assembled in Portugal'. I bought one around '96, it came with two mags, in a gray plastic hard case which had the Browning logo.
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  • skicatskicat Member Posts: 14,431 ✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks gentlemen. I guess the two features aren't necessarily found together all the time.
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