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The only reason I can see to remove the magazine disconnect safety is to remove parts that could result in a malfunction under whatever circumstances, but NOT simply to improve trigger pull. The trigger pull is ideal for a combat pistol and should not be lightened by any means beyond polishing of contact surfaces because over time, all fire control systems lighten up and what started out as a stiff release ends up being much lighter. On a combat pistol, trigger pulls below 5.5 pounds are insanely light and dangerous, and could result in an unintended discharge that could cost you thousands of dollars if not decades of your life. Right out of the box the Girsan P35 is just fine and needs NOTHING to make it better! Before you start knocking out pins SHOOT the gun at least a few hundred rounds to wear in the contact surfaces and soften up the springs. The LAST THING anyone needs on a defense pistol is a "hair trigger" which is anything less than about 5 pounds and even that is super light when a person's adrenalin is flowing and their finger is millimeters away from the trigger!

The Hi-Power design is as iconic as the 1911. It was designed around the then-new 9mm cartridge which is why the pistol is so light despite having an all-steel frame. The all steel Hi-Power is only a few ounces heavier than the polymer framed Glock.

Good info in a very nice pistol congrats. I am trying to fight the urge to buy one. Here's the thing though what do you think is better a Beretta 92 or High power? I have several 92 pattern pistols and many others and always find myself falling back on the 92 I think it's probably the most all around Superior 9 mm handgun ever produced.. that's not taking anything away from the high power I just think it's more of an advantageous design..

The Hi-power was developed for the French military and one of their requirements was a magazine disconnect. Also you can remove the disconnect without having to remove the trigger. Just remove the pin holding it in and wiggle the trigger lever as you pull the disconnector out. You can leave the pin out or replace it.

This is an extremely important video to watch for the reliability and 100% compatibility of the original Browning Hi-Power parts. I once owned an original Hi-Power in the 90's and have regret departing from it through the years. This video convinced me to purchase the Girsan MCP-35. Thank you for making a great video full of valuable important information!

The sound of those bullets detonating is pure eargasm. Could just be the area you’re in and the microphone.

JMB had little to do with the High Power design, the majority of the design was done by Sauve, including the double stack mag. Take a look at the two patents he filed on his work and see what you see that looks like a HP. As far as the mag disconnect goes, if you do crazy stuff like actually shooting the pistol, the trigger pull will smooth out - just like revolvers do. I handled dozens of High Powers during my 30 years in the military as a small arms instructor - he magazines on those Inglis HPs dropped out just fine and they all had about a five lb. trigger pull. Crazy... almost like everything smoothes up with use. For those saying a 5 - 6 lb trigger pull on a fighting handgun is too heavy -stay out of the military. The trigger pull on M16 variant service rifles runs about 8 lbs. versus the HP pistols 6 lbs. If people spent as much effort on their shooting as they do imagining flaws that require hacking away at their firearms, most of their firearm's potential issues would disappear by themselves. 9:26

How did you get that damn pin out? I’ve hammered on mine and only managed to mar the finish on the gun!

The Browning was designed for cavalry use. The mag saftey was added to prevent the operator from shooting either himself or his horse. Admittedly, that feature is now an anachronism, but it is what it is.

Didn't have 55g blk powder in 1800"s

Did you have any issues with a “gritty” trigger before removing the magazine disconnect?

Sounds and looks like it shoots a lot like the HSM 250 grain cowboy action ammo I get for mine. Pure lead flat nose, starline brass. Nice bullets, yours seem to have just slightly more kick but other than that very similar. Glad I been getting the good stuff. If you haven’t you should give it a try!

The short barreled, aluminum framed PI LW version is fantastic as a carry gun. I got the Match version rather than the Ops as I didn't want a rail.

Ive been trying to remove the mag disconnect but the pin in mine is struck in good

If you can’t hit the bad guy in the first couple of rounds, the magazine disconnect is not the problem. The problem is you not being able to hit your target. Another words you’re a bad shot. It’s estimated gun battles are over in 12 seconds. So stop overthinking this as a problem with the gun.

FEG started making clones of the Hi-Power in the 1970's. Patents normally only last about 20 years. The mag disconnect can be easily removed on any of them. Same process for all and it helps the trigger a lot. Plus mags drop free.

Great song! Was really nice meeting you today Andrew. God bless man!

Nice to know but not worth putting dings in the frame just to get a pin out. If it's that important, take it to a professional gunsmith. My that 2 cents worth.

I bought the same gun about a year ago. My experience has been a bit different. It came to my FFL soaked in oil. I mean really soaked; no way I could take it to the range like that. So I field stripped it and cleaned it up as best I could (I’m not a gunsmith). First trip to the range I put maybe 60 rounds through it without malfunction. Then the second trip I put another 120 rounds or so, and at just over 100 I began to experience light primer strikes. If I manually re-cocked the hammer it would fire on a second strike. A third range trip with another 50 rounds and the light primer strikes were becoming more frequent. So I decided it was time for another field strip and as thorough a cleaning as my non gunsmith self could manage. Then back to the range sometime later, with 150 rounds. First 90 rounds or so no problems at all. Then it started to do something really weird: a couple of rounds out of each of the last several magazines, the trigger just wouldn’t reset. It wasn’t stuck; it would move through its travel just fine, but no <bang!> until after a number of cycles, as if the magazine disconnect was engaged. This was actually quite dangerous, not knowing how many trigger pulls it would take to get it to fire. So I took it to my local gunsmith. He completely disassembled it and gave it a “deep cleaning”. He said that the problem was that the residual oil it had been shipped in, that I couldn’t get at with a field strip cleaning, had congealed and formed a kind of gunk that was interfering with the action, I believe he said the sear. He assured me that now it would be fine; he put about 50 rounds through it himself and considered it a good shooter and a well-made gun. Since then I’ve had mine to the range once so far as I write this; put 50 rounds of inexpensive “Venom” brand Turkish range ammo through it. Had one failure to extract at the beginning of a 15+1 set; thought maybe it didn’t like “topping off” the magazine with one in the chamber (some autos don’t do well with that; it’s a good way to jam a Tokarev). Then on a subsequent set did the 15+1 thing again to confirm that was the issue, but then it ran fine. The jury is still out on mine. I plan to shoot it some more in the near future to further determine its reliability or lack of the same. I’m jealous of all of these glowing reviews of the MC P35, how everyone is talking about putting hundreds of rounds through theirs without any problems. Would be nice; hope mine can ultimately live up to such expectations. On a positive note, I have not found the magazine disconnect to be a problem as far as the trigger pull is concerned. After take up it is crisp and not particularly heavy nor gritty. I see no need to remove the MD. Why the MD in the first place? No, I don’t think it was to help prevent a bad guy from turning the weapon on its owner during a tussle. It was to prevent NDs during cleaning, in the hands of newly minted military or police who were not that familiar with firearms before joining up. This was not an unreasonable fear; Europeans don’t have the gun culture of Americans, so they wouldn’t necessarily have had the familiarity with them that Americans would. It should be remembered that when the Hi-Power first came out, revolvers were still in wide use even in some militaries. It’s very easy to determine if a revolver is loaded just by looking at it, but one can imagine a novice removing a loaded magazine from an automatic thinking that the weapon is clear while a live round is still in the pipe…and that’s how accidents happen. The MD seems like a goofy feature to most of us today but it was a rational safety measure for its time and place.

Thank you for sharing this song! :)

I wanted a historic copy of the Hi-Power so I bought the Match version. What a really well made beautiful firearm. I added a Brownells Nitraite barrel which fits tighter than what comes with this gun. Looks sexy and is more accurate.The factory upgrades are worth the little extra price.

Ahmen

Same here, always wanted a BHP, and when I could afford one they were very pricy on auction sites. The other thing that made me hesitate was the $2000+ upgrade packages, to fix all the original bugs and smooth it out... so I could have easily been out $4000. The SA35 was out a little ahead of the MC35, what ended up selling me on the SA was the steel frame. I had heard all the issues about the SA35 and had the parts fixers before it got to my LGS and had those installed on the day of delivery. It's been superb so far. BTW, Nighthawk Custom does a very nice set of black grips for these.

The "Magazine Disconnect" is not a problem! It is a "Feature" designed right into the Browning High Power from the very beginning! At the time, 90+ years ago, this was part of the Military "Doctrines" of near ALL European nations that eventually would buy and incorporate the "High Power" into their armed forces! It still amazes me, that there is still so much "moaning, groaning, bitching and bellyaching" about this STANDARD FEATURE of nearly ALL SEMI-AUTOMATIC PISTOLS from that Era!!!! When I was trained on this weapon, we just took it in our stride! And handled it accordingly. It was NEVER an issue in Combat for the Soldiers that served in any of the countries that bought and used it. PLUS......... You can remove it! So, PLEASE! Can you just stop ✋️ all that childish 😒 wine ing???? Thank You! (There! I've got my two cents worth in. On, back to our Feature Presentation! )

Turkey is NOT OUR FRIEND!!👎 Not interested in anything made in TURKEY!!😤👊😲👎

Still a great song brother!!!

How is the hammer bite on the pistol thinking about getting one love the Hi Power.

turkish made handguns are almost always really good

Picked mine up today. Thanks for the video. I like to change the grips also. So thanks letting us know it take Browning parts.

Sucky review

The magazine disconnect thing is much A do about nothing

Love the PI Version, wish it came with 2 mags though.

sorry...I'll take the USA SA-35 over a Girsan any day.

semper fi bro

Can you link the video that does the parts swap with the original Browning?.... I know The Yankee Marshall did that with the TISAS.....but never saw the one you mentioned.

Mine is nice, but it has a 12 pound 11 once trigger pull.

The regent br9 is the best copy if you can't get the fn get the regent br9 it's a straight direct copy interchangeable parts except sights

Funny how you describe the perceived problem with this gun. A gun fight will last on average about 12 seconds and if you did not hit the bad guy within the first round of your magazine, then you must be a bad shot. Stop overthinking this stuff. Do you really think a criminal cares about your perceived problem with this gun. Hell they are opportunistic and will wait till you have your guard down to strike. I’ve yet to hear a criminal say that they are worried about small perceived details. All they want to know is can the gun fire. Again, if you can’t hit the bad guy with the ammo in the first magazine, I’d suggest you practice some more to become more accurate with the gun.

You can take it out. Also who you fighting at the grocery store that you can’t beat with a hi power?

No magazine disconect no thank you,if you take it out you run the risk of neglegent discharge,none of the copies are nitro proofed they are not made for war

Doesn't surprise me at all because I own a Girsan Regard MC and it's every bit as good as a Beretta 92 M9 if not better.

Over 1400 rounds through my MC P35 and I've been carrying it. One stovepipe with cheap reloaded ammo

I have no clue whatsoever where you ever heard that b******* of the magazine safety being a mechanism for making the gun unfireable should you lose control of it. The reason that was put on a Firearms to keep officers from shooting themselves with the damn thing. In 1902 when John Moses Browning was presenting the first officer's gun that he was asked to build for the Army. It was a 32 ACP Colt semi-auto. A lieutenant walked up to him and said that he noticed that it didn't have a safety mechanism like a bunch of the other newfangled semi-autos did. Mr. Browning stated that he was asked to make an officer's gun. And the lieutenant was perplexed and ask what that had to do with it? Mister Browning just looked at him and said an officer is supposed to know which end the bullet comes out of. It was that type of thinking that allowed him to add the thumb safety which does the same three safety mechanism stops that the grip safety does and have both safeties on the eventual 1911. Which he also designed to be able to do every function with a single hand because it was a Cavalry pistol and you had to be able to Cock it and operate it with a single hand and reload it with a single hand. Under the information that your left hand will be controlling the reins of the horse that you're on. The Browning P35 actually has the same functions, you can actually wreck the firearm by putting the nose of the slide underneath the barrel up against the saddle horn or any other hard object and rack the slide. You can also use that part of the slide to do a press check to make sure that the firearm has a round in the chamber. And yes there were still horse cavalry at the beginning of World War. As a matter of fact when Germany started World War II 84% of their military or more was not mechanized. So I don't know where you heard that crap from, but the magazine safety comes off of any firearm that you want a decent trigger on. The other way to get a really good trigger off of the Browning hi-power system is to mow the fulcrum point of the lever in the slide which gives the trigger a little bit better leverage angle to trip The Seer. I have not yet looked at the sa35 or the Turkish version that you're talking about. But the Turks have some really fine CNC equipment and I mean state-of-the-art. But the only parts that I've heard of that are proprietary on the Springfield are the sites. At the sa35 does not come with a magazine disconnect safety. It has been removed from that firearm completely. But they did do is they put a slightly stronger trigger return spring to make sure that you had consistent resets. The magazine disconnect actually provides some of the force to reset the trigger. Although I've had an Argentine military P35 for decades and I've never had a problem with the trigger not resetting and it had the magazine safety removed by the military. Even they know better than the run around with something like that on their firearm. You just keep Firearms out of the hands of the officers and nobody knows the wiser.

In my opinion the girsan is close but not close enough . In my opinion anyway

I have browning hi power beercan site with marking no. 6 at the trigger guard,.can you tell me what does it mean,.?

Love mine.

I love my OPS MC35. No mag safety from factory and Less than 200 rounds and no malfunctions.

great piece

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