So I got my Alloy FN Browning High Power back from Don Williams of The Action Works today. I originally bought it as a brace to my other alloy and I was going to throw some C&S & Garthwaite parts into it and then have Don put a set of new sights on it get it refinished locally and call it a day. By the time I bought all the parts had him do the sight yada yada yada I was already most of the way to just letting him do it. Well one thing led to another and I sent it into Don at the end of 2019.
These alloy BHPs were contract guns for some LEO in Europe. There is a lot of myth and mystery as to who had them. R Blake Stevens in his book "The Browning High Power Automatic Pistol" Limited Edition attributes the '80 alloy BHP to "Belgian Gendarmerie Motorcycle Police issue" They weight about 25 .6 oz with an unloaded mag. For a point of comparison a Glock 19 weights 23.63. They make for awesome carry guns. The gun looked like this when I bought it.
I ended up with the following build.
I went with Cerakote because the frame is Aluminum and it is so hard to get a blued side to match an andonized lower. I considered Black T but it hold up the same as cerakote and Don can do the cerakote local and in house. I think it came out pretty well. I won't get a chance to shoot it until sometime next week. It came with a test target fired at 10 yards showing it is hitting point of impact point of aim.
These alloy BHPs were contract guns for some LEO in Europe. There is a lot of myth and mystery as to who had them. R Blake Stevens in his book "The Browning High Power Automatic Pistol" Limited Edition attributes the '80 alloy BHP to "Belgian Gendarmerie Motorcycle Police issue" They weight about 25 .6 oz with an unloaded mag. For a point of comparison a Glock 19 weights 23.63. They make for awesome carry guns. The gun looked like this when I bought it.
I ended up with the following build.
- Deluxe trigger job with C&S hammer, sear and Garthwaite Trigger
- Stippled Front and rear grip straps.
- Don fabricated a custom extended thumb safety
- Reliability Package
- Beveled the magwell
- Installed a Gold bead front sight
- Crowned and polished the barrel 11 degrees
- Rear Business End Customs 1911 Sight with a U notch
- Cerakoted in Elite Series Blackout
I went with Cerakote because the frame is Aluminum and it is so hard to get a blued side to match an andonized lower. I considered Black T but it hold up the same as cerakote and Don can do the cerakote local and in house. I think it came out pretty well. I won't get a chance to shoot it until sometime next week. It came with a test target fired at 10 yards showing it is hitting point of impact point of aim.
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