In some of the locales, I was working against goblins of various insurgent flavors, and that extra round seemed useful. I had carried a Canadian Inglis model a couple of times and found it most noteworthy that its magazine would take 14 instead of 13 rounds, and it had marginally better sights than FN Hi-Powers at the time. I should probably pick up an Argentinian one as well since, on one job, I carried one that had come back with many twins in a duffel bag from the Falklands War.Īnd I bought an Inglis Hi-Power. I have an Indian one, and I’m looking for an Indonesian one. As I got older and nostalgia kicked in, I also decided to acquire examples of the more exotic Hi-Powers I had carried back in the day.
I had a chance to buy a pre-World War II Belgian model with a tangent sight, and it now lives in my safe. Without thinking, I had started a Hi-Power collection. I thought those were pretty cool, so I ordered one, well, really two. A number of alloy-framed Hi-Powers that Fabrique Nationale (FN) had made for Belgian motorcycle cops were imported. But somewhere along the line, I sort of became a Hi-Power collector.
