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From: utidjian@remarque.berkeley.edu (David Utidjian)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: Re: Browning Hi Power Advice
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Date: 13 Jun 91 13:53:49 GMT
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	Congratulations you have made an excellent purchase!!
I have two of the Browning HP's myself. Mine are both of Belgian
manufacture. I have seen the Argentinian version and it appears
to be an excellent model. I have had no problems with mine in the
fourteen years that I have owned them. I have not heard of anything
bad about the Arg. model either.  Well enough backslapping....

Care and feeding:
	
		Clean imediately after use.( This may sound
		like I am being condescending but you might
		be amazed at some of the stuff I have seen.)

		Use a VERY light coat of CLP on all parts of the 
		gun.

		Store it in the original box. Never in a holster.

		As a regular diet I use lead handloads loaded down
for accurate practice at the range. I reload my own since I shoot
about 600 rds a year. This will probably lead your barrel but if
you shoot a few jacketted rounds just before you clean it it will
make things much easier. For "business" ammo I use Winchester 115 gr
Silvertips. I have found that these guns will shoot just about any
thing that you can chamber in them, even 380 ACP's.  I was younger
and more foolish then and would try just about anything. They are
very unfinnicky about the ammo that they will shoot.

	Magazines: Buy Browning. I have some non-Browning mags that
		never given me any trouble but I have had some bad
		ones too.


Accurizing:

	I was lucky and had my HP's accurized by Bob Chow in San Francisco
before he retired back in the late 70's. All he did was remove the magazine
safety and did a ramp job so that it will feed empty cases!
This is one case where there is a good reason to remove the mag. safety
other than those cited by people in the current thread on the news.
It has to do with the way the mag. safety works on the HP. That is all
you should need given the out of box accuracy that you are already
getting. I like the Pachmayr Signature grips, some find them a bit too
"full."		Enjoy...!!!

-Dave-
Utidjian at your service...

email: utidjian@remarque.berkeley.edu