3/28/2023 0 Comments Hi point 9mm![]() ![]() Fine, let’s finish this magazine and see what happens. My first thought: the concussion I suffered five days previous has seriously distorted my shooting ability. At three yards, I have failed to put the round anywhere on the paper.įaced with the prospect of running the target “home” to confirm my suspicions of failure-and showing blank paper to the shooter’s to my left and right-I take aim again and turn my concentration inward. Lowering the pistol to low-ready, I peer downrange at my work. The sights remain on target throughout the entire epic. And while we’re waiting fo something to happen, please note that arthritic shooters need not apply the C9′s nine-pound plus trigger pull will likely break your finger before a bullet comes out the other end.Įventually, the C9 trigger breaks and round one travels down range. Squeeze … squeeze … squeeeeeeeze … SQUEEEEEEZE. My sights were perfectly aligned on the bull.Īs I took-up the trigger slack I felt a bit of side-to-side “wiggle.” Odd yet manageable. It’s a fine distance for putting FMJ rounds on paper and concentrating on the function of the pistol. I’d set a standard “bulls-eye” target at three yards. Click here for my previous range report]. Moving right along, let’s shoot the thing and see how it performs. When I fired this pistol for the first time, the action of the ZAMAK slide contacting, rubbing against, and trying to take off the skin on the top of my thumb, was a wee bit uncomfortable. In the picture below, you’ll see that there’s a significant amount of overlap. In the above picture, you’ll notice a slight overlap of the skin on my thumb and the bottom edge of the heavy slide, just aft of the safety-off indicator. ![]() The discomfort starts when you fire the pistol. Again, I’m not implying that the C9 is uncomfortable to hold. Here’s a comparison between the ergonomic and aesthetic similarities of the C9’s pot metal slide and a common mason’s brick. They must have been using technology from the future. Somehow, the folks at Colt had figured out how to make their blowback pistol slides not-so gianormous right around 1900 when they introduced the model 19 hammerless pistols. (The mass of the heavy slide keeps the breech closed until the round has exited the barrel, then the energy imparted by the fired round operates the slide and cycles the pistol.) The C9’s slide borders on behemoth. The Hi-Point rep told me the gun needs a beefy slide to compensate for both the single-action blowback design and the pistol’s light polymer frame. Worse, it can be left at any degree of on/off while you’re manipulating it.Įrgonomically, the Hi-Point C9 fits the hand decently enough. Flicking the thumb safety in a firing grip requires a good deal of effort it must be pressed firmly, like a square peg through a round hole. Hi-Point calls it the “quick on/off thumb safety.” Operating the switch is about as fast as a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter uphill. Too bad that extra bit of plastic wasn’t added to the nearly-impossible-to-operate-from-a-firing-grip safety. The Hi-Point C9 ships with a rear Ghost-ring sight (as well as an extra rear peep sight, FYI). At $155, that wouldn’t be hard to accomplish. I was ready for the C9 to exceed my expectations, expecting it to blow me away. ![]() ![]() Pistol in hand, it was finally time to get down to business. So imagine my surprise and delight when Manassas Guns and Ammo Warehouse called and told me “Your Hi-Point is here.” Hi-Point’s marketing mavens had decided to send us a C9 after all. If you want a Hi-Point to try to destroy you will need to run one down for yourself, to be honest we are so busy shipping c-9’s out I really don’t want to break a case of 10-and I don’t think its fair to send you one to destroy when I have customers wanting them to enjoy. They’d decided against sending us a pistol.Īfter further consideration, I am going to pass on sending you a c-9 to torture test, we have had many different writers and independent’s do this type of thing to several calibers of the Hi-point products, all have attained the same end…Hi-Points are built like a “TANK” they just keep running and are nearly indestructible ( just view the most recient You Tube hi-point attempted destruction test ). The candles at my dinner table burned to the nub with no one showing up to enjoy the cuisine I’d slaved over for hours on end. ![]()
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