Pistols of the Rhodesian Bush War

[@markaxworthy2508]

Pistols were militarily a non-event in Rhodesia, as in every other war. They were essentially a civilian weapon carried by farmers on their lands in addition to a rifle and their wives on shopping trips into town until locally produced SMGs became available in numbers. I had a personal Browning and a captured Tokarev but I only carried the former because it was at bit of pain to carry a G3 everywhere on general A&Q duties. It was more symbolic of rank and I had no expectation of actually using it. I'd have to have screwed up pretty badly if I was reduced to having to use a pistol.

[@michaelscribner9752]

Nice pistols yet today! The 3rd gen S&W autos had mag safeties too.

[@GlockPistolero]

Browning HP is an awesome gun

[@mikerilling6515]

The mamba started out as an excellent idea for a side arm, but unfortunately, a shyster got the contract for manufacturing, and he did not verify proper heat treatment so I as I recall only one mamba was produced. That was properly heat treated and functioned properly and that’s the one that was used in all the meetings and all the. Recruiting events

[@SteveWood_Commando_at_large]

The S&W 659 (5906), 39 and 6906 also have magazine safeties. The BHP is, by far, a superior firearm!

[@hoppinggnomethe4154]

659 and 5906 are not the same thing. Also, the 59 series is slightly superior to the Hi-Power since it has the DA/SA trigger and never gives you any hammer bite.

[@SteveWood_Commando_at_large]

@@hoppinggnomethe4154 The 4 digit codes on the smiths indicated a slight upgrade to the 3 digit model. DA/SA triggers are fine, but I found that the HP was more accurate and slighly smoother than the smiths. Athough I hav shot a few Hps that had a very heavy and gritty trigger, but once it broke it was very accurate.

[@hoppinggnomethe4154]

0:48 It's not an unusual design. It was common back in the days.

[@brain4154]

i really wanted to grab a star bm9 that was at my local pawn shop but when i came back two days later withy paycheck it was gone :'(