Living in the French part of Switzerland, the GP 35 designation (Grande Puissance) is the one commonly used here vs HP / High Power
Anyway, took a couple to the range recently and decided to snap a few family pictures of all six currently living here
1944 German Occupation / 1946 Danish issue / 1952 Belgian civilian or police
1981 7.65 mm (.30 Luger) / 1979 Capitan / 1980 competition
Vintage with internal extractor
Modern with external extractor
The Capitan has a holster / stock
Very nice!
Very nice indeed, I love getting a chance to see how gun ownership is done outside the US.
Une question, mon ami-- on the Capitan, are the sight graduations for the various distances of any use, I mean, do they have some correlation to actual trajectory? They go to what, 500? 800? Do you have a place to test that?
They go upto 500 m
And no, I’ve never shot it beyond 50 m, where it produced a nice grouping with the stock
Plug your ammo and sight offset numbers in to a ballistic calculator and figure out what your settings will give for a poa/poi offset at 50 yards like Novak does with an MG 08/15.
[video=youtube_share;Wjl0p4hYzFw]https://youtu.be/Wjl0p4hYzFw[/video]
Kinda curious if the longer range settings would even be possible or if it would be over the berm or in the ceiling.
That’s quite a nice collection of Hi Powers. Is the availability of variations similar to those found in the U.S.? For example, are 40S&W, 9x21 or the Belgian aluminum framed Hi Powers available in Switzerland?
For 40S&W, 9x21 I have no idea since I am not interested in those calibers. I have seen a few aluminium frame for sale over the years.
Beautiful collection of Hi Power pistols—I was into P-35 pistols back in the day and had many—even carried a 1978 polished blue Hi Power with fixed sights for more than 12-14 years during the time I was managing gun stores here in Los Angeles California. Feed ramp altered to feed JHP by King’s Gunworks and magazine safety removed by previous owner—nice trigger—very accurate pistol. Sold most of them—now have only two, the 1978 pistol and a rare FN marked (not Browning) pistol with the SFS trigger system factory installed—it shoots very well also…