Monster Hunting Guns Made in or Associated with the UK

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Sam Cade

BHPs are pretty small already. While the butt is very wide (even with thin grips) it is fairly short and the top of the slide is narrow and rounded. Most modern service pistols lock up using the barrel hood which necessitates a square slide.

Still, from picture size comparisons, it looks like the Browning Hi-Power is more or less as big as a Beretta 92, albeit slightly thinner. That's much less comfortable to wear as a concealed carry piece than pistols in a 'compact' size range, such as the Glock 19, HK USP Compact, SIG P229 or S&W M&P Compact. Am I overestimating the size of the Browning? Would it be comparable with some of these as a regular-wear/concealed carry piece, instead of thinking about it as about equivalent in size to the Colt M1911, Glock 17 or SIG P226?

I've only held the Glocks, Colt and the SIG of the above weapons, so I don't really have a good feel for the Browning outside of pictures.

Originally Posted by Sam Cade

As to the chopped pistol in your link.... Wow. That would take forever ( a couple days of hard work) and require some impressive skill to keep it from looking like crap and being functional If there is a CNC mill handy it would be more time effective just to make a new pistol.

Is it really easier and more effective to make a pistol from scratch than spend two days modifying one? Why do military and police armouries sometimes bother to do extensive modifications on old ones, like rechambering them or suchlike, then?

Originally Posted by Sam Cade

Chopped BHPs have been done on a production basis by the Argies as the FM Detective

That looks like they went with the 'building a whole new weapon based on the Browning' route. Is that a false impression on my part?

In any event, this would be a 'compact' Bulk -2 weapon, not a 'subcompact' Bulk -1, right?

Originally Posted by Sam Cade

Fitzing a revolver is pretty easy. 3 cuts, remount front sight and round the butt with a belt grinder. Dab cold blue on anything left shiny.Maybe a couple hours.

So if you need one hundred Bulk -1 weapons and have access only to Bulk -2 semi-autos and very old Bulk -2 revolvers, it's clearly easier to modify the revolvers?

Originally Posted by Sam Cade

As for parts comparability between a model 10 and a 36? Not at all. The 10 is a "K" frame, a 36 is a smaller "J" frame.

Ok. Which would you think was more practical as the basis for a 'Fitzed' self-defence weapon in the modern day; a S&W Model 10 .38/200 made during WWII or a Webley IV or VI in .38/200 made sometimes between 1930-1945? Going by which is likely to be more reliable, which produces the smaller and more comfortable piece after 'Fitzing' and any other concerns which might influence the choice. If it is about equal, they might have both.