[ FN's New High Power: First Shots ]
Hi guys, thanks for tuning in to another video on ForgottenWeapons.com.
I'm Ian McCollum, and yesterday of course we were looking at the new FN High Power on the table top,
what makes it different and what makes it similar to the original Browning High Powers that FN made.
Well today, we're out at the range with it.
So I want to do a couple of things here today.
I want to actually do some shooting, and see if it lives up to the expectations that I have for it.
I want to of course try it on a spinner.
And I figured we'd try running a wide variety of different ammunition through it.
I've got some assorted leftovers of all sorts of miscellaneous stuff.
And I am curious to see if the High Power can run it.
So let's just start off with some generic shooting.
This is literally out of the box, I have done absolutely nothing to it
except take it out of the box and load a magazine.
So the first ammo I'm using is Belom, it is Serbian, 115 grain, just generic 9mm ball.
It's funny, my little Mini Mo there isn't making any sound at all when I hit it, but I'm clearly hitting it.
Alright. Overall: shoots nicely, has a good trigger.
I really, really like the fact that it's not biting me, like look, no blood at all.
Not even a little bit, unlike the original High Powers.
People have a romantic attachment to original High Powers and I understand why,
but they're also like distinctively unpleasant guns to shoot a lot of the time.
And this completely solves that problem.
Now I've got one magazine, that's 17 rounds,
again a nice improvement over the originals.
Let me see if I can run my spinner here, I've got this at 15 yards.
OK, maybe not.
Ah, very close! If I'd been a little bit better on the shooting early on.
We'll come back to that. For the moment, let's try some different ammo.
So just for kicks, let's start at the heavy end and work our way down.
First up will be some Sellier & Bellot 150 grain subsonics.
Alright, heavy subsonic.
Come on.
Hey, hey, got it over.
Alright, so it's a magazine full of 150 subsonics without any problems.
Next up I've got some PPU 124 grain NATO ammo.
And the spinner has of course completely stopped, so let's start it up again.
Got it again, even though I had a couple of misses because I was going too fast at the beginning.
Still really weird that that target's moving but not making noise.
Alright, so that's some heavy stuff, let's try some lightweight stuff.
So a while ago Honor Defense sent me a sample box
of 100 grain, 1,300 feet per second 9mm, which I've never really known what to do with.
I still had ... 10 rounds of it left, so just see if this can cycle super-light ammo.
10 rounds, no problems, that's all right.
Then, let's see.
I also have a random box of Winchester 115 grain hollow points.
So again haven't really known what to do with those, well,
got a full magazine of them here.
Original High Powers have a reputation for being a little
finicky with hollow points, so let's see if the new one will do it.
No problems there. What else do I have left?
I have some generic 9mm Fiocchi.
Let's give this a try, and let's actually shoot a group on paper and see how it prints.
Not exactly a world-class group.
We can go take a quick look, but for offhand quasi-rapid fire, that seems OK.
So just a hair low at 15 yards.
That's not bad, like I'll take that.
Now let's round it out with some nasty steel-cased lacquered Wolf. Can it shoot that too?
Alright, I had two mags plus one round left of Wolf.
So I've Barney loaded one round in the gun already, that'll give me 18.
See if it can run the spinner, ... if ... Wolf can run the gun, and the gun can run the spinner.
Smells like Wolf ammo.
There we go, no problems there.
The gun's starting to get a bit toasty, but I've got one mag left.
Really don't understand why that thing doesn't make a noise.
Alright, so that's a couple of hundred rounds total, or so, through the new High Power.
Flawlessly reliable, you saw it all, literally nothing went wrong.
Comfortable to shoot. I like the trigger pull, it's a good single-action trigger pull.
I am sure that professional smiths will be able to make it even nicer,
if they got rid of the magazine disconnect, the magazine safety.
So you don't have to have the mag in the gun to fire it,
which is ... whoo that's toasty! ... which is really nice.
It's controllable. It's got a nice size grip to my mind. It's a good looking pistol.
I think FN have done a pretty darn nice job on this.
I'll be curious to see what the market reaction to it is,
because, as I talked about in yesterday's video on the desk top,
this isn't being marketed as specifically a ... carry gun,
or a self-defence gun, or a bullseye gun.
... Actually, I know this is weird, it's actually just a recreational, fun, effective pistol.
And I think that ... there is nothing wrong with that,
it's a fun sort of gun to actually have and to shoot.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed this one.
Thank you very much for watching.