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- From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Hi-Power mag safety
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.211750.3709@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 16:07:05 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: The Instrumentality
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- In article <1992Dec29.171030.22491@tvnews.tv.tek.com> toddc@spot.tv.tek.com (Todd Carlson) writes:
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- #When I bought my Hi-Power, the gunsmith in the shop I purchased it from
- #said that if I ever want to shoot IPSC I should have this procedure
- #done. He described a metal strip inside the grip that prevents the
- #magazine from dropping freely, and also prevents the hammer from dropping
- #when the magazine has been removed. The primary safety is unaffected.
-
- The Browning magazine safety consists of a little plunger that is
- part of the trigger assembly, and that is pushed forward by the magazine.
- When the plunger is pushed forward, it moves the tripping lever into
- position so that it can contact the connecting sear arm in the slide. The
- trigger can thus actuate the sear only when the magazine safety plunger is
- depressed by the magazine. The Browning magazine safety does not block the
- hammer--it merely disconnects the trigger from the sear. It's an
- ingenious--and simple--arrangement.
-
- Since the safety plunger exerts some friction on the magazine, I imagine
- that its removal would cause the magazines to come out more easily. In
- actual combat, this is a dubious advantage (though I have myself never
- accidentally released the magazine on a P35). Trigger action should also be
- marginally improved by removal of the plunger.
-
- I haven't removed the magazine safety from my High Power because I don't
- think that the possible advantages of doing this outweigh the risks. For
- me, the Browning High Power is a combat pistol _par excellence_, and I see
- no reason to remove features that its designers saw fit to incorporate. The
- trigger action is satisfactory as is--I wouldn't want a lighter action on a
- combat pistol. I shoot as well as I need to with this piece as it comes out
- of the box.
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