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I’ve been a fan of quite a few pistols in my lifetime, but the Hungarian copies of the Browning Hi Power are among my favorites. Made by the Hungarian state arms concern known as FEG, the single action FEG Hi Power pistols bear model numbers like P9, P9M, PJK-9HP, FP9, and were imported by firms like Kassnar Imports, KBI, Century International Arms, Tennessee Guns International, SSME and others. The original FEG P9 Hi Power pistols are an unauthorized, completely-reverse-engineered, and totally faithful copy of the Pre Mark II Browning Hi Power pistol. The old Commissars did a masterful job of copying the FN design and turning it into a solid buy, as evidenced by the great numbers of them sold in this country between 1985 and 2004. They can be found for decent prices all over the country, and I’m lucky enough to own two pristine “new” examples of them. Because of their low resale value compared to the Browning gun, I hesitated for some years to put any real money into them. But now I’ve bitten the bullet, said to heck with resale value and dressed up a couple of them, mainly because I’m sitting on two brand new ones that are tight as a drum, have first rate triggers in them, and are very accurate guns - and because at my age you don’t put anything off for too long. The first one was imported by the Kassnar family’s KBI concern and is an early 90’s example I bought from a Tennessee farmer in 2011 for $420 plus FFL fee and shipping. It carries the model number PJK-9HP (FEG called it the P9) and was still brand new in the box, wrapped in the original factory plastic wrapper. It came with the classic Browning small safety lever, Browning style extended slide stop, and tiny sights. It carries a serial number in the B20000 range, and, like most of these guns, shoots like a house afire. This is a “before” photo of this particular gun (but typical of both). They were handsome pistols just as they came from the factory, and I have a hard time seeing much of a qualitative difference externally between them and my Browning Hi Power. “Before.” FEG PJK-9HP as it came from the factory. FEG knew this model as the P9. Here is the same gun after I added a Browning Hi Power ambidextrous safety, Hogue rosewood grips, Novak three dot sights, and magazine bumpers. The same gun “after” adding Rosewood grips, Novak sights, Browning safety, mag bumpers. The second pistol is also a KBI imported PJK-9HP from the early ‘90’s. It is my favorite handgun. I found it in unfired condition on GunBroker in ’09 and bought it for $315 plus fees. It is in the B50000 range and came equipped the same as the first one except that this one had the much better three dot sights FEG adopted later in its production run. This pistol is unusual in that it has a sparkling blue/black blue job that honestly rivals the Colt Python and the Weatherby Mark V rifles of old. It must have been intended for a VIP, because I’ve never seen another FEG polished as brightly as this one. It too is a very accurate pistol. Dressing this one up consisted of new Novak three dot sights, substituting one of the beautiful FEG-made extended safeties (now impossible to find), Hogue Kingwood grips, and magazine bumpers. Here it is. This FEG PJK-9HP (P9) has one of the nicest blued finishes I’ve ever seen on a pistol. Why did I dress up two of them almost identically? Well, once my wife handled the first one, she gave me “that look” and said “where’s yours?” So two it was. I stopped short of installing new custom “no-bite” hammers and enhanced triggers because these guns just didn’t need them. I couldn’t carry or shoot them any better with such expensive modifications, so I’m standing pat where I am. These pistols fall into the category of inexpensive foreign guns that weren’t appreciated until they were no longer made. Over the years they have been criticized for lacking the meticulous finish workmanship of the Browning guns, but shooters now consider them to be very good pistols that offer value far in excess of their price. They are immensely popular with their owners. In fact, gun forum members are often heard to cry big tears about the FEG pistols they wish they hadn’t sold. I’ve owned five of them and have never had a malfunction, so I think they’re very good guns and I like them well enough to pay the going rate for nice ones. If you fall under their spell, be aware that they’re just about as addictive as the Browning Hi Power, 1911, and AR-15. I guess I shouldn’t wind this up without ‘fessing up' that the first FEG pistol I dressed up was back in ’08, and was the Charles Daly Hi Power in the next photo. The CDHP was a standard FEG P9 like the ones above except that they had dovetail slots set up for Novak style sights and had their firing pin retaining plates milled off to accommodate the rear sight. They were imported in unfinished condition by KBI and finished initially by Dan Wesson and later by Magnum Research. Only KBI imported them and they are the only Hi Power pistols produced en masse with “Made in USA” stamped on them. Dressing this one up consisted of new MMC adjustable sights, a new set of Herrett’s Cocobolo grips, and magazine bumpers. Like the others, this one is a very accurate pistol with a very good trigger. KBI’s Charles Daly Hi Power version of the FEG P9. MMC sights, cocobolo grips, mag bumpers. FEG later made a number of in-house modifications to these single-action guns that deviated tremendously from John Browning’s design, beginning with a slight modification to the slide stop and eventually adopting an entirely different operating system based on Smith and Wesson designs. All three of the guns shown here are the original P9 versions that have the Browning operating system, but I have owned one of the Smith and Wesson flavored single action HP copies and found it to be an accurate and reliable gun that performed as well as the Browning-based models. And just to prove to all of the Browning guys that I’m not a total infidel who went over to the dark side entirely, I also added a new set of Hogue Rosewood grips and an updated ambidextrous safety to my 1979 Sport Model Browning Hi Power (that I also bought in unfired condition in ’09.) Mama doesn’t get this one, although she insists on visitation rights. 1979 Browning Hi Power Sport Model with new grips and safety. As you can probably tell from the narrative, whenever one of the single action FEG Hi Powers tries to follow me home from the gun shop, I usually don’t try too hard to get away from it. Remember the addiction thing? Last, a word about the double-action FEGs. Although they’re often called Hi Power clones, they are not. They’re not even close. Having model numbers like P9R, P9RK, MBK 9HP, and GKK 92C, among others, they were designed as fairly close copies of the Smith and Wesson Model 59 and only bear a slight resemblance to the Hi Power in the way the front of the slide is shaped. They have nothing in common with the Browning Hi Power other than the Colt/Browning locking system used by many other designs as well. These guns are tough-as-nails, all-steel pistols well suited for harsh use. They make first rate truck and boat guns and will take a whale of a lot of punishment for not a lot of money. But they aren't Hi Powers. Here is an example. This is a KBI Import, a GKK-92C compact 9mm. The Smith and Wesson influence on the design is plain as the nose on your face. The double action, FEG GKK 92C. Basically a S&W M59 copy, this is a LNIB compact model. I may doll this one up too, but after sending two pistols to Novak's this month for sights, and buying three sets of Hogue checkered hardwood grips plus a couple of ambidextrous safeties, my SDI (Sudden Divorce Index) probably won't permit it for a couple of months or so. Best wishes. EssOne

    Because the police consider whoever calls first as "the victim"...doesn't matter who really is/was...Luckily these kids didn't realize that they could have easily turned this around on bersaguy in a heartbeat by just calling the police to report a guy flashed a handgun at them while they were just "hanging out at the quickstop admiring his dog"...Thats why it's important to CYA by always reporting the incident to the police FIRST...Always, and i mean ALWAYS be first to report any incident involving the use of your firearm in a defensive situation, regardless of if the trigger was, or was not pulled..

Lost a great legend today. Got to see him once and it was one of the best shows I ever had the privilege to see.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPlsqo2bk2M

These people are the open-carry-an-AR-into-walmart-just-because-I'm-cool folks of the diesel truck world.

  I understand. I would have done the same. Another reason why it's important too is for anyone who lives in the area or stops at that same gas station. They can know who/what to look out for.   I just wanted to share my thoughts on the crime stats that Bill Whittle so eloquently presents. Talking about the issue doesn't make it racist. 

Can hardly wait to get to range!! Added MAGPUL AFG for comfort. Future additions will be optics, a suppressor (Octane 9 HD), and finally SBR with a collapsible stock![emoji39] Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

This is a one of a kind belt knife. There will be no others like it. I was just messing around with new ideas and this materialized. I really like it. The scales are Warwood....formally know as fauxcarta. The design is etched into the blade...it's not going away. This thing is sharp....really sharp. It includes the sheath which is made to accept a small Blade Tech Tek-Lok but is not included. It is available. It's 1/8" 1095 carbon steel twice etched with jimping on the spine and coyote brown liners.

Lots of good suggestions so far.  With what you've heard here and available on the interwebz the only other suggestion I might have is to watch your step.   There are probably more homeless, bums and random hippies roaming about, laying on the sidewalks and sleeping in parks than you have ever seen before.  I kid you not. They mostly leave you alone but they everywhere around the downtown area.

A couple of observations from a not-professional:   1)  CZ 75's are simply more accurate and slip right into the hand.  Your hand is where it's gonna be.   2)  If you can handle a CZ with small hands a 1911 should be no problem.  The grip is a lot thinner but the front end maybe a bit heavier.  You shouldn't hold a pistol too tight but maybe you aren't holding it tight enough? Don't worry about where you rest your thumb(s).  They should both be pointed straight forward.....just not against the slide.

Calm down Nancy, I'll stop and get a bottle of bourbon for you on the way home from work. You can turn all the lights off in the living room. We'll light a candle and you can have a vinylpalooza. I'll just be out on the pool. :-D

I would have put it out of it's misery and then called it in so the meat could have been salvaged and sent to a homeless shelter. The TWRA collects all good early road kills and donates the meat. Also you can get a report from them for insurance purposes. I have not heard of any TWRA people giving anyone any grief for putting an injured deer down bu they do appreciate a call so they can get the meat...................... :up:

I think a TWRA officer probably could cite you if they really wanted to (out of season, on a roadway, etc.), but I doubt most officers would given the intent and circumstances

First, thanks for putting it out of it's misery.  Too many people would have just let it suffer.   I wish I knew from a pure legal perspective.  I am guessing if they wanted to site you they could (probably more of a TWRA issue though), but as long as it was done in a responsible manner, I don't think most would.   I have done it before and would do it again if I needed to.

Now that's just not cool, monkeyman. Giving the woman who has supported your gun fetish all these years a bit of grief ove her fondness of BB. I mean, really...after she bought you all those nice toys recently. You should be ashamed. At least sit beside her during the wake. lol

  The best I could understand of the wildlife laws it probably could be considered destroying an animal but it is TWRA's function to put down injured deer. With their limited numbers and locations many years ago I believe they had asked the local departments to just handle it. I've never seen anybody given any problems for putting a deer down humanely. It will save me paperwork and having to locate my spent casing to to file with the paperwork like I just shot a human. It is what it is and deer and other animals have to be put down. I don't even hunt but I bet over the past 5 years I've killed just as many as some hunters due to crashes and one coyote. The coyote was actually a funny story because people were petting it thinking it was a dog.

    Depends on whether you clean the knife before the officer arrives.    "I dunno officer, I guess the car bumper has a sharp edge..."

Well, I don't think these young men called the police and gave them my plate number of I would have never made it home and or the Leos would have been knocking on my door by now. I laid awake thinking about yesterday and i have drawn the conclusion that they were traveling and possibly staying the night in a local motel. A lot of these people are traveling right now to attend protests that are going on in real troubled areas and that is my guess. They may have been headed back to Memphis since they would be traveling I 40. I think everything will be ok and I did not lose any sleep over it except about 10 minutes last evening. I'm comfortable with my actions and did not allow anything to escalate beyond where it did. 

Out of the city limits I'd do it and not care. Inside the city limits I'd call popo, tell them I am legally carrying a weapon, and ask if they'd like me to do it for them. As peejman said, you never know when you'll draw an a-hole who's absent of common sense and thus wants to charge you with something such as discharging a firearm in city limits.

I've heard both sides of the story...  In one instance, the responding officer was very appreciative of him not having to do it, given the hassle involved with discharging his weapon.  In another instance, the officer gave the person the 3rd degree about having a hunting license, shooting from the road, carrying a loaded weapon, blah, blah, blah.  The officer didn't do anything, but wasn't exactly pleasant about it. 

Thanks for your compassion. It was the right thing to do.

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  I think it would be cruel to let it suffer if you could stop it, if you can walk up to within a few feet from a deer after it was hit then you know it has a broken back if it doesn't get up and run.

I know there isn't a problem with discharging a firearm in this area, as people shoot on their property all the time. Just didn't know about killing a deer. I would think (hope) that most LEOs would be ok with it.

I am not sure on legality but its been done many times around here, a LEO took care of one in front of my house that had been hit by a car and I live well within the city limits.  Of course here in Clarksville there don't seem to be any laws against discharging a weapon within city limits, just a noise ordinance.

The only suggestion I have is stay home.

Over the last few years, my musical tastes have completely moved over to Blues. BB King is a legend. He has been an influence on so many artists over the DECADES that he has been a musician. He really helped to form the genre. Artists come and go, and most will be forgotten, but centuries from now, people will still know the name BB King.   Rest in peace.

This is done on purpose by turning up the injectors.  All that black smoke is unburned diesel fuel and as far as I'm concerned, is like pouring it out of the can directly on the street.  Most of the time, the offender also has the big er.... um .... sack? hanging from the trailer hitch as well.  

Gosh, guess I need t answer a few things here. First is I never put my gun in m console and glad I didn't cause my friend that was in my Jeep with Kasey may not have been as in control as I was. He had locked all the doors when they first began poking jokes at Kasey being so fat and she was barking at them. Second is I will definitely call the police if I am ever in another situation like this again. It was not all that serious and once they realized I was armed the situation was defused and in all honesty I would have hated to see a bunch of police roll in on these kids and make things escalate a lot more and maybe a LEO get excited and shoot a kid. Some one ask where it was. It was a fast stop or quick stop market between Interstate Drive and I-40. I just dropped my boat off on Interstate Drive and was heading back home. As far as my cocking my model 85 in my holster. The safety was on and hammer was in the de-cock position which allows the 85 hammer to be cocked while on safety. Gotta love a quality Bersa. The new Bersa's don't offer that option. That is why I wanted the model 85 so bad and was able to get one a year ago. Plus it also offers and has the 15 round capacity with 1 in the tube and 14 in the magazine. I promise I will call the police next time..................... :up: :up: I am not familiar with Cookville other than when I take my boat up there for service so don't know what the ratio is on Black and White and don't really care. I do know that when I go and pick my boat back up I won't make any stops on the way back home....... :up:

Yep, I would have reported it. May not do any good, but you never know. WTF is wrong with people these days anyway? Punks like this don't seem to realize that it's nothing more than the law that keeps certain people from just leaving them laying scattered around.

  I have a problem with the notion of governments "owning" property.  Yes, they can and should dictate how some property is used under their control but they do not own it.  The people do.   It's a matter of semantics but still I think should be keep in mind.

A barrel nut. Try no muzzle brake at all. All the gasses will go forward and not be redirected.

This thread has both made me glad about society, and sad at the same time.   It is a shame that this world has become so distinctly 'us and them.'

my truck will do it on demand only. i save it for these smart-ass teenagers that walk down a narrow 2 lane road 3 abreast and make u wait on traffic to get by. they better have their mask on. they only do it once and they can hear me coming. i didnt set it up for that but it works nicely and dont care who doesnt like it.

I wonder if the people who build grills/smokers out of old drums as a business give a crap about what was in it before.  From the ones I've see the answer is no.   They don't sell Oak Ridge 55 gallon drums, those are buried somewhere.  I have a feeling fire will take care of what was in any other non-food grade drum.

I have a set of Crimson Trace LG 305's on my 637.  They look and function just fine.

Autos demand a minimum pressure level to cycle and reload from shot to shot.  This means there are few "low(er) recoil" rounds in a given caliber other than to move to a lighter bullet.   Revolvers, on the other hand, can be loaded anywhere from mild to wild, based on the user's competence.  They cycle by the shooter's hand and are content to simply get the projectile out of the barrel.  Revolvers will function with any weight of bullet where the diameter is appropriate for the bore dimensions.  The 38 Special can be loaded with bullets as light as 75 grains (Lyman wadcutter) up to over 200 grains (many selections, variables are cylinder length and loaded round length.  Revolvers will fire and cycle with shotshell loads, duplex (more than one bullet in the case) loads (ie, a pair of 75 grain WC bullets in a single 38 Spl. case), cast or jacketed bullets, and the list goes on.  Ammo can be crafted for a revolver with fixed sights such that the bullet will routinely "shoot to the sights" by varying the bullet weight and/or velocity.  There is much fun to be had with revolver loads, even being able to instantly recover one's fired brass rather than having to send out the search party looking for auto brass.  As with all handloading ventures, employ safety with your load development and enjoy the ride.   Stumpy

It's been a lot of years but there was a place called Croce's, it had a good music venue and was started by Jim Croce. There was a Dicks Last Resort there as well. Used to have all auce crab legs for a good price. I highly recommend Bonita Store for their Baja Buckets, absolutely fantastic food with crane Asada and pollo Asada with slipper lobster and shrimp! The best Mexican food can be found in the places called Roberto's or Juanbertos or any variation of bertos. They look like roach traps but a carne Asada burrito from a joint like that will change your life. Just a little north of downtown is Ocean Beach, I lived there for awhile and it is worth a visit, great little beach town. North of that is Pacific beach, much bigger area with a lot to do. There is also a nude beach at the Torrey Pines park, it's a good hike down the cliff but you can be nude in public as will a lot of local babes. The Zoo is good but is a prison for animals inmo. Great place to visit!

I'll shoot you a message next week. If you still have one by then, I'll send the money first thing Wednesday morning.

Rest in peace.  He had a good run.

  Again, 1359 specifically excludes parks type property:   "This section shall not apply to the grounds of any public park, natural area, historic park, nature trail, campground, forest, greenway, waterway or other similar public place that is owned or operated by the state, a county, a municipality or instrumentality thereof. The carrying of firearms in those areas shall be governed by § 39-17-1311."   Claiming that,  what looks, sounds, smells, and feels like any of these, and indeed have long been referred to as such, and used as such, and/or even have these words in their frigging names, are actually something else just isn't gonna fly in the courts.   Also add the additional language in 1311 that includes other rec properties such as certain buildings as further reinforcement that 1359 may well not be able to be applied to them either.   - OS

  I have a Crimson Trace unit on my SP101, and they are very unobtrusive. But that's just my opinion. Also have some on a Springfield XD9 Compact. This one is a bit chunky with the grip on it though.   Still considering a CT for one of my 1911 pistols. Probably on the Sig RC3 before long.

There is no place immune from this kind of stuff, even small, out of the way towns. It's just a part of life nowadays and the reason we all carry. Of course some areas are more prone to this kind of event.

  Explain please how government owns anything?

   Compelling roles in film doesn't change her character one bit. A traitor is still a traitor. The photo of her sitting astradle an antiarcraft gun in No. Vietnam, smiling, says it all.

I often wonder if a lot of what happens to him is not staged by him just to keep him in the spot light..................jmho

I vote for the .45-70 just because I think big, tough pigs should be properly thumped.

I'm calling BS on this photo. It's obviously a Photoshop.... any gun owner in the world knows that Russian block weapons only stack like this

Picked up some CCI MiniMag HP for $7/100 at Walmart yesterday.

I don't always open carry but when I do I always use my Uncle Mike's nylon tactical holster and a clip my "concealed carry permit holder" badge to my belt.  Most people just assume I'm a cop.