Girsan hipower

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I've had a couple of people ask my thoughts on the girsan hipower I ran this weekend so I thought I write a my thoughts in a thread
When I first got it it had the magazine disconnect
it made the trigger gritty and you could feel the grinding through your trigger finger.
Since i wanted to run it in idpa I removed the safety so the mag would drop free and this stopped the grinding feeling
the trigger is still heavy but is smoothing out .
They're a couple of aftermarket triggers floating around but putting a 200 trigger in a 400.00 gun isn't something I think I'm gonna do.
The fixed sights are great and dead on out the box .
The white front sight with two white bars on the rear sight is really easy to pick up.
Guns a little heavy being all steel and holding 15 rounds
I've got a lw pi version which is their detective version on order
Couple of other things the safety is kinda flat since I shot cocked and locked I worried about missing it and not getting it off but I had more trouble getting it on than off .
Second gripe is the gun has no beaver tail and my hand rides really high on the rear of the gun so the web of my hand took a beating
Overall though I love the gun.
Finished second in accuracy with it at the match and best finish with the 1911 all year had been 5th.
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I've heard good things about the Girsan. Decades ago I wanted a Hi Power but I cheaped out and got a FEG clone. It did not satisfy the itch. I thought about getting the new FN Hi Power - my logic being since FN owns the Hi Power brand, it is the official version. But it's a pretty far deviation from the original. The Girsan is not that much of a deviation...and the price point is better than FN or Springfield. @S4f thanks for the honest review.
 
mightymorphine53 said:
@S4f How hard was it to get the magazine disconnect out on yours?
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It was a pita even though there's plenty of you tube videos that make it look easy
The roll pin in mine did not want to come out.
Tried a brass punch and brass hammer and it wouldn't budge.
So I took it to a friend's and used a nail set and a bigger hammer.
After you get the roll pin out of the trigger group it's smooth sailing .
If you plan to try it yourself tape the gun up good before you start
 
Just wanted to update this, after 500 rounds the trigger on the full size while still being a bit on the heavy side is smooth and crisp amd more than acceptable , it's actually better than the p i match version I ordered but the match has less rounds through it.
I'm hoping the p I version that it will catch up to it's big brother as I shoot it over the winter months but to be honest I prefer the sights on the full size
And for those that didn't see my other post here's the p i
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