Hi Point 995
anyone have one of these?....do you like it?...Value?
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I shot one in 40 S & W, it worked OK. Basic entry level carbine. You get what you pay for.
Far as I know, discounting how they ginger breaded it up. To make it look tacticool, for the folks that don't know better. Same as their pistols. Mostly made of Zinc diecastings, with a straight blowback mechanism.
I never much trusted them. From the first pistols that came on the market in the 90's. They sell a lot of them though, because their cheaper than any thing else on the market.
If you got the money? I would spring for something better. Like one of the Kel-Tec, pistol caliber carbines.0 -
Ugly as sin and they shoot great. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Ricci Wright
Ugly as sin and they shoot great.
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So, would you buy one? 0 -
quote:Originally posted by pwillie
So, would you buy one?
IMHO, Save your dinero and get either a Kel Tec or a AR pistol caliber carbine. Don't know about the Kel Tecs, but the The AR's have been dropping a lot price wise. Have seen them in 223, for under $500. I don't know, if the pistol caliber ones have dropped that much though?0 -
quote:Originally posted by pwillie
So, would you buy one?
Actually I have 2. A 9MM and a 45ACP. They function great and are accurate, thou the max distance I have used is 50 yds. We fire reloads exclusively. The total for both new was about $550. I bought them to shoot
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now we are getting some where! 0 -
No I not going to buy an ugly gun!! Well except for Glocks.[:)] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by pwillie
So, would you buy one?
I'm not in the market for something like this, but if I were buying something for "serious" purposes, I think I'd rather spend more and get more.
But if I needed something like this and had a limited budget, yeah, I'd buy one.
Most reviews I've seen of this were positive. Positive along the lines of "this is an ugly no-frills gun that still runs fine and does what its supposed to". Hi-point customer service is supposedly excellent.
Note that I would NOT buy one of their pistols. They "work" in the sense that they fire and cycle, but the blowback action makes them weirdly top heavy, they're inaccurate, and there is too much plastic and zinc-alloy in there to make me happy. I think for really only a little bit more money you can do a lot better in a handgun. (Old Ruger semi-auto beats this thing hands-down, for example).
A heavy blowback type action just makes more sense in a carbine.0
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