Hi Power with tangent sights

skicat

July 12, 2014 16:04

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 christian

  July 12, 2014 16:32

  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 shooter

  July 12, 2014 18:10

  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-snow

  July 12, 2014 18:30

  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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  skicat

  July 13, 2014 14:56

  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-snow

  July 13, 2014 17:18

  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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  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 moran

  July 14, 2014 18:18

  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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  skicat

  July 15, 2014 16:50

  Thanks gentlemen. I guess the two features aren't necessarily found together all the time.

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