You are really giving me the itch for another HP. I miss the commercial one I bought in 1975, and the mildly ‘smithed HP I had in the 90’s. These are just such a classic.
Sir I just bought a match Girsan without the tac rail and your video is priceless. I mean to use it for a pure range purpose since I don't know Hi Powers that well yet. But you have really opened my eyes. Gotta love these clones being brought to market now to maoe Hi Power design more accessible to ignoramuses like me. But that raises the burden of responsibility to learn from videos like yours here.
Thank you, Mark, very much for doing the Girsan MCP35 OPS video!!! CONCERN: I pre-ordered your match barrel, expected in March; WOULD YOU PLEASE DEMONSTRATE HOW TO FILE THE EXCESS METAL OFF THE UNDERNEATH SIDE OF THE FEED RAMP WHILE KEEPING A PERFECTLY-FLAT SURFACE? I don't want to screw up my new BHSS barrel. 😳
Same issue with front sights. No FO and sight to left. Re-centered and walked out to left after one mag at range. Girsan claims no known issues with sights but happy to sell me a new front!
The only issue with the Girsan High Powers seems to be the mounting of the front fiber optic sight. Several issues of them going missing after 1st shots has been noted, make sure your rod is mounted properly. Easy to remedy, slight melting front & rear will lock it in place 👍
I have an issue with the trigger "locking up", Seems more like it doesn't reset. I let out on the trigger again, and it fires when it's pulled without having to rack the slide again. Is this possibly a weak reset spring? I have installed your reliability kit to fix extraction problem.
I understand you make replacement springs, that's wonderful. But... I have the Springfield and the Girsan Match, I have atleast 1000 rounds through each, with zero malfunctions other than ammo problems. So... I'll call you when I need one, but the factory springs run great.
so my entire front sight went flying off the other day while shooting (Ops version). I was surprised that was even possible. Now I cannot get the dovetailed sight back completely pushed in and aligned. I noticed yours was a bit shifted over too, not completely seated as well. Trying to figure out how to go about a solution..
@@digitalsmithy they have sight pusher tools specifically for this task but as long as your careful and maybe tape up surfaces as not to mar stuff, a brass punch should be enough to get it back in place. TH-cam is a good resource to see how this is done
I have seen several reviews of the Girsan MC P35 OPS and each seems to complain about the reset of the trigger. Would that be effected by the things you speak of in this video, or is that a separate issue?
Girsan trigger reset is "ok". BHSpringSolutions has a redesigned Hi-Power Trigger Sub-Assembly that dramatically enhances reset without adding resistance on the trigger pull, and ejects the magazines....
@@bhspringsolutionsllc555 Does it work on the MC P35 OPS? The reason I ask, is because it doesn't have a magazine disconnect safety, and you mentioned the magazine ejecting. Also, Is this something I could install if I buy the gun, or would I have to send it to you?
Otherwise other than my observations here, because you never get into why the trigger is changing on these guns and what the problem actually was. That I would like to know but this is been a lot of help these videos of yours. But I would reiterate that a three-and-a-half-hour trigger would be a godsend on a Browning hi-power and I have fired a couple of them with that but it was always one that had the fulcrum point on the floating sear lever moved like Nighthawk does
What I did to stop that from happening is I used a tiny dot of super glue on the front of the fiber optic rod. So it doesn't affect the crispness of the end facing you. It looks completely OEM, but that little fiber has stayed put for over 350 rounds so far.
Just got a detective model and has been flawless for 750 rounds now. Definitely put a trigger reset spring inside and tossed the magazine disconnect, but otherwise factory. Just waiting on my holster so I can begin carrying it
BOUGHT THE GIRSAN 35 MATCH. HAVE HAD IT OUT SHOOTING 5 TIMES THE FIBER OPTIC HAS FALLING OUT EVERY TIME. EAA IS HORRIBLE TO TRY AND WORK WITH. HAS NO SOLUTION OR REASON
I used a dab of super glue at the front end of the fiber optic. It's held it in place and doesn't affect the light gathering from the top end or the crispness of the end facing you. I've also heard people use a lighter and sort of heat up the end, then smoosh it with a flat punch or something, so it effectively widens the end of the fiber rod, so it can't walk out. Good luck ... it's been an excellent shooter for me (aside from the front sight issue).
@@MrSpiker06 then use a dab of epoxy. The super glue I used held up just fine shooting 350-400 rounds of ammo in about a 2 hour period, between 4 - 15 round magazines. The other option is to heat the end of the fiber rod with a lighter and then press the tip with a flat punch or something to pancake the end, so it can't back out of the steel base. The only way it'll fail is if the fiber optic breaks (which is fairly common).
Rails, beaver tails, and straight triggers are add ons to try and attract the tweeners who want a Browning Hi Power to be something it's not. Akin to jackwaggons who take a crap Romanian AK, and do everything they can to try to make it look an AR. It's just silly...
If I'm carrying a gun for duty, I want a light on it. I also don't like chewing up the webbing of my hand, if it isn't necessary. Some of us have big meat hooks and the hammer bite is real. Lol
If you're getting more than one shot out of a Browning hi-power with a three and a half pound trigger you don't know how to use a trigger on a high-power. Or on any other gun for that matter. In the now just to be fair comma I adopted the Rob Latham method of firing a semi-auto pistol when I first started carry a semi-auto pistol in 2005. Since 1970 I have been teaching people how to shoot, including semi-auto pistols, many Michigan State Police Officers when they transitioned into semi-autos. And for many years I never fired My Double Action 357 and it's Single Action mode. I have plenty of single action revolvers that I shoot in single-action. I don't need to do that with my 357. And I had no trouble shooting for 26 in groups at 100 yards with my double action pistol. But then again I never expected to have any problem. When I started carrying a semi-auto pistol I adopted the Rob Latham procedure which was to completely release the trigger and re-engage it each shot I found that that was a far more consistent shot two shot behavior from the firearm when I did that. Trying to release the trigger only far enough to catch the reset and then squeeze it, is a recipe for the gun not firing the next round at all. And I have no trouble firing the firearm as fast as it can go off. I have shot a couple of high-power designs that had the lever Falcon Point changed which does improve the trigger considerably. I have not had that done to my Argentine military Browning which is the most accurate 9 mil I have ever seen in my life. I have had it shortly after my father first purchased it, I have fired a single whole group at 15 yards with this military surplus Browning hi-power. He said sat it hard Chrome, and it is a rock-solid semi-auto which is the only 9mmm I own and the only one I have carried. But I do make sure that I use what I consider to be the best ammo for the job and that's the spear gold.in at least a + b form at 124 grain hollow point. 1275 to 1325 feet per second approaches minimum 357 Magnum velocities and will get the job done.
@@bhspringsolutionsllc555 kewl the issue has still been walked around like nothing happened nothing changed and you are still doing what ever you want to playing on simplothy and never strapin on a set lol 🤣😆
@@bhspringsolutionsllc555 so take me up on it I'll stoot a match with you with a um ah Humm bone stock out of the box hi power clone and you um ahh Humm load one with fifteen ah Humm hundred dollars of your ammm Humm parts with all your umm Humm way way way over priced part s and I'll shoot a match with you
Y'all need to open up a bank the prices for your parts exceeded the cost of a gun what a racket I made an order even trying to get past the sales pitches n fast balls and it was mind bending the cost. Get real. I believe in making a liveing but honestly man
Maybe you should remember that at the voting booth, this whole country is suffering from inflation that hasn't been seen since the the late 20's, what's he supposed to do loose money, you want quality you pay.
Look in the mist of making a comment about your prices one of your members took it apon his self I was running your products down I actually have worked on hi powers for over thirty years. To make it simple pick a part compare it to a 1911 you like six hidden % higher it's redicules
You are really giving me the itch for another HP. I miss the commercial one I bought in 1975, and the mildly ‘smithed HP I had in the 90’s. These are just such a classic.
Just wanna say thanks. Bought your hipower spring kit and my gun runs flawlessly now! Thanks again.
Belgium FAL's & BHP's, there's never been a more beautiful artistic combination of rifle & pistol in history.
Some great FREE gunsmithing advice that took me years to aquire. The BHP is an amazing machine.
Sir I just bought a match Girsan without the tac rail and your video is priceless. I mean to use it for a pure range purpose since I don't know Hi Powers that well yet. But you have really opened my eyes. Gotta love these clones being brought to market now to maoe Hi Power design more accessible to ignoramuses like me. But that raises the burden of responsibility to learn from videos like yours here.
This info super, thanks. Reaffirms my Grandpa's "Most of the time you get what you pay for".
Girsan has raised the bar on the Hi-power. Custom features in a production pistol.
Thank you, Mark, very much for doing the Girsan MCP35 OPS video!!! CONCERN: I pre-ordered your match barrel, expected in March; WOULD YOU PLEASE DEMONSTRATE HOW TO FILE THE EXCESS METAL OFF THE UNDERNEATH SIDE OF THE FEED RAMP WHILE KEEPING A PERFECTLY-FLAT SURFACE? I don't want to screw up my new BHSS barrel. 😳
Same issue with front sights. No FO and sight to left. Re-centered and walked out to left after one mag at range. Girsan claims no known issues with sights but happy to sell me a new front!
Thanks Mark 👍
I’m so happy for me mcp35 very nice shoot smoothly trigger
The only issue with the Girsan High Powers seems to be the mounting of the front fiber optic sight. Several issues of them going missing after 1st shots has been noted, make sure your rod is mounted properly. Easy to remedy, slight melting front & rear will lock it in place 👍
Do you recommend the melting with a lighter?
I have an issue with the trigger "locking up", Seems more like it doesn't reset. I let out on the trigger again, and it fires when it's pulled without having to rack the slide again. Is this possibly a weak reset spring? I have installed your reliability kit to fix extraction problem.
I understand you make replacement springs, that's wonderful. But... I have the Springfield and the Girsan Match, I have atleast 1000 rounds through each, with zero malfunctions other than ammo problems. So... I'll call you when I need one, but the factory springs run great.
so my entire front sight went flying off the other day while shooting (Ops version). I was surprised that was even possible. Now I cannot get the dovetailed sight back completely pushed in and aligned. I noticed yours was a bit shifted over too, not completely seated as well. Trying to figure out how to go about a solution..
Seen alot of ppl saying they have had problems with the front site.
Peen the surface of the flat part of the dovetail creating a bur, drop some locklite in as well. Press front sight back in
@@cowmaneater1243 when you say press do you mean with some sort of vice or something of the like? sorry I'm an absolute noob
@@dlife7427 I've only seen people talking about the fiber flying off so far. My entire sight slid out and flew off somehow haha
@@digitalsmithy they have sight pusher tools specifically for this task but as long as your careful and maybe tape up surfaces as not to mar stuff, a brass punch should be enough to get it back in place. TH-cam is a good resource to see how this is done
Wow... now I know why I will never sell my Glock...
Whats the trigger pull wait on that girsan?
Is there a .40S&W or .357 Sig model?
That's the Ops model. The Match model doesn't have a rail.
I have seen several reviews of the Girsan MC P35 OPS and each seems to complain about the reset of the trigger. Would that be effected by the things you speak of in this video, or is that a separate issue?
Girsan trigger reset is "ok". BHSpringSolutions has a redesigned Hi-Power Trigger Sub-Assembly that dramatically enhances reset without adding resistance on the trigger pull, and ejects the magazines....
@@bhspringsolutionsllc555 Does it work on the MC P35 OPS? The reason I ask, is because it doesn't have a magazine disconnect safety, and you mentioned the magazine ejecting. Also, Is this something I could install if I buy the gun, or would I have to send it to you?
Otherwise other than my observations here, because you never get into why the trigger is changing on these guns and what the problem actually was. That I would like to know but this is been a lot of help these videos of yours. But I would reiterate that a three-and-a-half-hour trigger would be a godsend on a Browning hi-power and I have fired a couple of them with that but it was always one that had the fulcrum point on the floating sear lever moved like Nighthawk does
I was told the slides are interchangeable. Is this true with some fitting?
Also, with the front mount on the newer ops red dot models, what front sights will pair with an EPS or other holosun red dots
One of your main men really got my attention about all this snake oil
What size fiber optic does it take? Mine came out at the range Thanks in advance
Mine has come out every time
@@MrSpiker06 yeah its a pain in the a##
Do you know what size i need to replace it?
Everybody tells me just buy a new site
What I did to stop that from happening is I used a tiny dot of super glue on the front of the fiber optic rod. So it doesn't affect the crispness of the end facing you. It looks completely OEM, but that little fiber has stayed put for over 350 rounds so far.
Thanks. Gun shop has supposed to have ordered a new sight. That was like 4 or5 weeks ago.
So which one is the better buy right now?
I have a Girsan Match Ops, and it is awesome. I'm ordering a browning extractor just to be safe, but I've had zero problems in about 350 rounds.
Just got a detective model and has been flawless for 750 rounds now. Definitely put a trigger reset spring inside and tossed the magazine disconnect, but otherwise factory. Just waiting on my holster so I can begin carrying it
Where are you getting a holster for the detective model Sir?
Be kinda kewl to talk to the man this jons feeding from for some reality
BOUGHT THE GIRSAN 35 MATCH. HAVE HAD IT OUT SHOOTING 5 TIMES THE FIBER OPTIC HAS FALLING OUT EVERY TIME. EAA IS HORRIBLE TO TRY AND WORK WITH. HAS NO SOLUTION OR REASON
I used a dab of super glue at the front end of the fiber optic. It's held it in place and doesn't affect the light gathering from the top end or the crispness of the end facing you. I've also heard people use a lighter and sort of heat up the end, then smoosh it with a flat punch or something, so it effectively widens the end of the fiber rod, so it can't walk out. Good luck ... it's been an excellent shooter for me (aside from the front sight issue).
@Homecar220 guy told me super glue doesn't hold up to heat though
@@MrSpiker06 then use a dab of epoxy. The super glue I used held up just fine shooting 350-400 rounds of ammo in about a 2 hour period, between 4 - 15 round magazines. The other option is to heat the end of the fiber rod with a lighter and then press the tip with a flat punch or something to pancake the end, so it can't back out of the steel base. The only way it'll fail is if the fiber optic breaks (which is fairly common).
Yah need this yah need that oh my God that will never work even though it has for one hundred years
Rails, beaver tails, and straight triggers are add ons to try and attract the tweeners who want a Browning Hi Power to be something it's not.
Akin to jackwaggons who take a crap Romanian AK, and do everything they can to try to make it look an AR.
It's just silly...
I'm going to put a light on a hi power and an optic on an AK and no one can stop me. They're genuine upgrades.
If I'm carrying a gun for duty, I want a light on it. I also don't like chewing up the webbing of my hand, if it isn't necessary. Some of us have big meat hooks and the hammer bite is real. Lol
If you're getting more than one shot out of a Browning hi-power with a three and a half pound trigger you don't know how to use a trigger on a high-power. Or on any other gun for that matter.
In the now just to be fair comma I adopted the Rob Latham method of firing a semi-auto pistol when I first started carry a semi-auto pistol in 2005. Since 1970 I have been teaching people how to shoot, including semi-auto pistols, many Michigan State Police Officers when they transitioned into semi-autos. And for many years I never fired My Double Action 357 and it's Single Action mode. I have plenty of single action revolvers that I shoot in single-action. I don't need to do that with my 357. And I had no trouble shooting for 26 in groups at 100 yards with my double action pistol. But then again I never expected to have any problem. When I started carrying a semi-auto pistol I adopted the Rob Latham procedure which was to completely release the trigger and re-engage it each shot I found that that was a far more consistent shot two shot behavior from the firearm when I did that. Trying to release the trigger only far enough to catch the reset and then squeeze it, is a recipe for the gun not firing the next round at all. And I have no trouble firing the firearm as fast as it can go off.
I have shot a couple of high-power designs that had the lever Falcon Point changed which does improve the trigger considerably. I have not had that done to my Argentine military Browning which is the most accurate 9 mil I have ever seen in my life. I have had it shortly after my father first purchased it, I have fired a single whole group at 15 yards with this military surplus Browning hi-power. He said sat it hard Chrome, and it is a rock-solid semi-auto which is the only 9mmm I own and the only one I have carried. But I do make sure that I use what I consider to be the best ammo for the job and that's the spear gold.in at least a + b form at 124 grain hollow point. 1275 to 1325 feet per second approaches minimum 357 Magnum velocities and will get the job done.
Umm ah ah ahw um ah
Astute observation.... 🙂 Have had that negative speech pattern since...all my life. Makes it painful to listen to myself....so, sorry about that......
@@bhspringsolutionsllc555 kewl the issue has still been walked around like nothing happened nothing changed and you are still doing what ever you want to playing on simplothy and never strapin on a set lol 🤣😆
@@bhspringsolutionsllc555 $$$$$$$$ all good here lol 🤣
@@bhspringsolutionsllc555 so take me up on it I'll stoot a match with you with a um ah Humm bone stock out of the box hi power clone and you um ahh Humm load one with fifteen ah Humm hundred dollars of your ammm Humm parts with all your umm Humm way way way over priced part s and I'll shoot a match with you
@@bhspringsolutionsllc555 I can't spell and can't put a scentance together your groupies done ragged me out on that one
Speak up or turn the mic on. I'm deaf.
A wart hog machine gun wont even work with out your experience will it lol 🙂😆
Umm ahh
The prices are way to high and this man snagged the markets price gouging at it's finest
I've always purchased my Hi-Power parts from Cylinder & Slide. They've always had good prices and their quality and customer service are great.
@@marc4199 me too for years there honest and humble and fare. I wish I would have never said anything on this man's page thank you for stepping up
The money chuck gun channel
Y'all need to open up a bank the prices for your parts exceeded the cost of a gun what a racket I made an order even trying to get past the sales pitches n fast balls and it was mind bending the cost. Get real. I believe in making a liveing but honestly man
Maybe you should remember that at the voting booth, this whole country is suffering from inflation that hasn't been seen since the the late 20's, what's he supposed to do loose money, you want quality you pay.
@@jimtewa8096 mabey you should remember bad economy is where people get rich saleing snake oil and price gouging
@@ettube8686 maybe you should learn to spell, don't knock his products they work as advertised.
@@jimtewa8096 spell maybe you should keep sucking venom out of his equipment lol 🤣
Is it possible to meet more complete suck ups in this world that buy this lying nonsense
Personaly I've never hurd awh n but more in any thing informative his neritive sounds more like a deposition
Damn I got on here to make amends I might as well be a white man at a liberal conversation
Look in the mist of making a comment about your prices one of your members took it apon his self I was running your products down I actually have worked on hi powers for over thirty years. To make it simple pick a part compare it to a 1911 you like six hidden % higher it's redicules
It's embarrassing
Could it be possible to actually hear the man speak that actually made thease items instead of listoning to a snake oil salesmen
Honestly you probably cant even shoot a 1911
Simplify your web sight and stop trying to be Jeasus