Monster Hunting Guns Made in or Associated with the UK

[Sam Cade]

Originally Posted by Icelander

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.

The 92/96s are huuuge pistols.

The BHP is closer in size to a G19 but carries much easier IWB since they are both thin and round.

Originally Posted by Icelander

Is it really easier and more effective to make a pistol from scratch than spend two days modifying one?

Yes. While the CNC is running the operator can go do something else. And doesn't require a master welder which a completely separate skillset.

..and since the machine is set up to do an operation, don't do it once, do it twenty times.

Originally Posted by Icelander

Why do military and police armouries sometimes bother to do extensive modifications on old ones, like rechambering them or suchlike, then?

They don't.

Originally Posted by Icelander

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?

That is correct. They were already making BHP clones. It is easier to make them in the desired abbreviated form than modify them.

Originally Posted by Icelander

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?

Lord yes.

Originally Posted by Icelander

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?

The S&W. Though the .38/200/.38S&W cartridge has been wholly obsolete for decades.