MEGASTAR's idiotic, no good, pointless obsession with a decent Stainless Steel Hi Power, Pt 2. Kaiser Soze (FEG)

[MEGASTAR]

So, it appears in my searches that FEG might be a good way to go, having made BHP copies for decades.

Then I see one...ugh...UGLY casting looks like it was finished with a drunk Hungo wielding a polishing wheel on a dremel. Unreal. I know these guys made some beautiful AKs and BHP copies, including that weird Smith 5906-BHP hybrid thing that seems to be pretty sturdy but Sweet Baby Jesus the Stainless ones are hideous.

I thought FMs machining was pretty rudimentary. 

Sadly, despite hours of searching I cannot find a good pic of just how awful these things are. Now this might just be my perspective, having only seen 2 types, BTF Century imports with line after line of hideously large dot-peen engraving on them, probably imported from Israel where they were used to shoot little kids. AND...

super duper 4K and up custom guns. Not really tuned in to either one of those prospects... So...the search continued.

 

 

[Garufa]

Why Part 2?  What happened to the other thread?

Didn’t Browning have a stainless Hi Power back in the day?  Seems like they did but maybe I’m disremembering.

[FUJIMO]

11 hours ago, Garufa said:

Why Part 2?  What happened to the other thread?

Didn’t Browning have a stainless Hi Power back in the day?  Seems like they did but maybe I’m disremembering.

You would be correct. I have the 2 tone practical model from the 90s and have a T series in blue as well as several clone variations. Love them all equally

[ken_mays]

That FEG looks chrome plated, as you can see by the difference in color on the (in-the-white) barrel and everything else.  The Brownings (Practical etc) were chrome plated as well; I'm not aware that they ever did a run of stainless BHPs.    Even the later BDM and HP DA were chrome plated.

The FEG was a decent enough copy, especially for the price, but the fit and finish weren't quite up to Browning standards.  The rear edge of the front sight on mine was over-buffed and the barrel needed re-crowning, but it certainly would have sufficed for general police issue at the time.

 

 

 

 

[MEGASTAR]

On 5/10/2025 at 1:00 PM, ken_mays said:

That FEG looks chrome plated, as you can see by the difference in color on the (in-the-white) barrel and everything else.  The Brownings (Practical etc) were chrome plated as well; I'm not aware that they ever did a run of stainless BHPs.    Even the later BDM and HP DA were chrome plated.

The FEG was a decent enough copy, especially for the price, but the fit and finish weren't quite up to Browning standards.  The rear edge of the front sight on mine was over-buffed and the barrel needed re-crowning, but it certainly would have sufficed for general police issue at the time.

 

 

 

 

Good SIr. It would appear you have a fixation.

Those are amazing guns and had they not been stupidly overpriced, and had they simply engineered them to take BHP mags, instead of some "close-ish" mag (which were rendered unaffordable by Billy Jeff Clinton the Rapist's AWB 94) AND dare I say, had Browning made a compact version, these would be more than the curiosity that they are now.

I realize the FEG pic is a chromed gun. I'm having a hard time finding pics of a Stainless one. Trust me on this. they are horrid. 

Just my .02 adjust for inflation.

Edited May 12 by MEGASTAR

[MEGASTAR]

On 5/9/2025 at 8:51 PM, Garufa said:

Why Part 2?  What happened to the other thread?

Didn’t Browning have a stainless Hi Power back in the day?  Seems like they did but maybe I’m disremembering.

Part 1 is a different thread where I discovered the Baford Arms SS BHP copy made in Bristol TN.

[MEGASTAR]

On 5/10/2025 at 8:27 AM, FUJIMO said:

You would be correct. I have the 2 tone practical model from the 90s and have a T series in blue as well as several clone variations. Love them all equally

It's chrome.