Why isn't the hipower as iconic / popular as the 1911?

>>57987920 (OP)

wtf is this thread

>>57987920 (OP)

>who don't fat boomers cum and shit their pants over a good gun and inflate its value at auction beyond reason 

i don't know and i don't care 

I like high powers and i'd prefer they stay affordable

Hi-Powers were mostly a European handgun and importing them was probably a bit of a pain to do

Not to mention that as unbelievable as it may sound, .45 ACP was the most used handgun cartridge at the time with only .38 special coming anywhere close to that

9mm was a meme back in the day

Before hollow points 9mm wasn't much better for self defense than .380. The additional velocity and bullet weight did nothing but increase penetration to levels that were irrelevant to self-defense, and there was no way to translate that wasted energy into anything useful.

Not to mention capacity wasn't too great back in the day either

the wonder nines changed everything

Because the US didn't adopt it (I'm sure there's speshul forces or something that used it at some point but you know what I mean).

>>57987920 (OP)

Because Hi-Power only has Claire Redfield, but 1911 has Big Boss, Solid Snake, Joe Cool, Capt. Miller, and the Wild Bunch.

>>57987920 (OP)

TWO

>>57987920 (OP)

Because the US didn't adopt the Hi-Power. Also for the few who thought they were going to be different and quirky and buy a Hi-Power they were met with a dogshit trigger.



Now today you have much the same situation. Either gun is outdated and there's better shit out there. But the 1911 still has the best trigger in a semi-auto pistol, and the Hi-Power still sucks.

Now that's a dumb argument. Same goes for .45. Then as now the difference comes down to capacity.

The Ji-Power is a great looking pistol

>>57987920 (OP)

Because millions of American men never served with 1911s and they didn’t get much exposure on the US market. John browning died while working on it and much of the American connection to the gun died with him. US was still pretty fuddy into the 1950s and 60s, lots of guns in calibers that weren’t 9mm and lots of handguns that weren’t “hi-cap” like the high power. As small arms progressed the 1911 was always seen as good enough to those that carried them and it was well loved by those that used to carry them, so little effort was made to modernize while the rest of the developed world was getting cool new auto loaders and better pistol loads. Even into the 1970s and 80s, lots of people had disdain for the 9mm auto loaders. The infamous Jeff Cooper himself only loved one 9mm pistol, the CZ-75, aside from the 1911 bur IIRC he also tolerated the hi-power.

>>57987920 (OP)

It is. It's basically the AK-47 of pistols, in all sorts of ways.
