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Dec 31, 2020 · The Germans invaded Belgium on May 10, 1940 and occupied Belgium for the duration of WWll. If you are collecting High Powers, there are two expensive books you will want to have in your library: "The Browning High Power Automatic Pistol", R Blake Stevens. "FN Browning Pistols", Anthony Vanderlinden. "The Shooter's Guide to the Browning High ...
Sep 7, 2008 · Browning Hi Power 9mm with fixed sights, serial #44174a, eagle emblem with a number WaA140. It came with a holster that had the markings inside. WaA920. cgn. 43. It had 2 magazines, one with either 11 3 or U 3 (very hard to tell even with a magifying glass), the other had 4 L. Would anyone know any historical data or approx. value.
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- The Browning Hi-Power
- A Little History on The Browning Hi-Power Pistol
- The First Variation
- First Variation But Slightly Different
- The Second Variation
- Transition Between 2nd and 3rd Variation
- The Third Variation
- The More Common Browning Hi-Power
Hey guys and welcome to another walk-in Wednesday. Today I have a gun and then a series of guns that I want to show you. This, you may recognize right away as a Browning Hi-Power. If you collect these you can see pretty quickly that this is a late War Nazi Hi-Power but it's even more special than that. I want to go into why this gun is particularly...
Now a lot of the information from this particular video comes from this book on FN Browning Hi-Powers, made in the Belgian Factory by Anthony Van der Linden. We highly recommend this book and we do make it available through our website if you'd like a copy. I'm getting a lot of my information from him, he did a great job on researching this.
So the Browning Hi-Power, actually John Browning first made the design for the Browning Hi-Power and he died before he completed it. It was then picked up by the FN Factory in Belgium and they completed the design in the late 1920s and went into production. It was also later licensed to Inglis in Canada. Because most of you know Inglis made a Brown...
For this video I want to just focus on three variations that were used in World War II by the Germans. As you know from history but also watching our other videos, we did one on the Polish Radom. World War II, the fighting started in 1939 September when Germany invaded Poland. They then went on to invade Belgium and France in 1940 and by May of 194...
So the first variation is a slotted tangent sight. Here's an example that was put together in the factory by the Germans in 1940. This one has all the Belgian proof, so it was issued to the Belgian Army in about 1939 and must have been in the factory when the Nazis took over in 1940 because it's Belgian proofed and then 613 proofed. And therefore i...
Here's another one of the first variations which would mean tangent sight and slotted. This one is a little bit different. The last one had Belgian proof, this one has the logo, you can see the FN logo which is Fabrique Nationale. I just said FN a lot and I just realized you may not know that it stands for Fabrique Nationale, you can see the logo h...
Now this is an example of the variation two. It's very simple to recognize and a lot more common. There's no slot for the log slot, they didn't use it anyway so the Germans did away with it but it does still have the tangent sight. This is approximate - about the first six months they had the tangent with a 613 proof but then the inspector proof ch...
Okay before I jump to the third variation which started in 1942, somewhere in the transition at the end of '41 and going into '42, I have a 140 proof. This is a tangent sight, of course, no slot but what you see a tangent sight and a 140 proof which again began at the end of 1941 and into the beginning of 1942. Again a beautiful condition Browning ...
I can only imagine that the German soldiers didn't really use this very much. It was for close combat; I mean you didn't pull this out to shoot soldiers across a field. This is a last-ditch where you're being charged and you just pull it out of your holster and open fire, so who the heck needs a tangent sight. So the third variation, the Germans cu...
So this is the more common Browning Hi-Power that you will see available to collectors on our website, as well as other websites. This one actually is on our website right now, you can see it right here and it comes with this holster. The Hi-Power holster is very distinct. Usually, the date is right under here. This one is dated '44 but usually, yo...
Mar 12, 2018 · Payment Methods: Prices are already discounted for Certified Funds, USPS Money Orders, Personal Checks under $500. Credit Cards (Master/Visa/AMEX) accepted by PHONE only with a 3.5% additional. Got a Browning Hi Power BHP 9mm with German or Nazi Markings with One Magazine and nothing else. The serial numbers match on the barrel, slide and frame ...
The German Occupation Browning Hi-Power Pistol. “. Pistole. 640 (b)”. On the 10th of May 1940, the German Wehrmacht invaded Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium as part of the overall invasion of France. This operation, codenamed Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), began with extensive air raids by both combat aircraft and Fallschirmjager ...
Feb 3, 2021 · Glock, Beretta, SIG – all the brands that still dominate the market today. But before Beretta M9 and SIG 226 was accepted into service, the FBI Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) already had a high-capacity 9 mm pistol – a Browning Hi-Power. Created in 1982, FBI HRT quickly became one of the most capable counter-terrorist units in the world, but ...
