My first pistol was a Hi-point C9. I read up on it and found out that it needed about 200 rounds to break it in and the magazine needed to be left loaded for a week or two for the spring to settle. I racked the slide couple of hundred times and left the magazine loaded for couple of weeks. Never had a jam. I read somewhere that it wouldn't like aluminum cased ammo. I ran aluminum, steel and brass cased ammo and never had an issue Sold it and got a CZ 75 and never looked back. And also, can we just take a minute to appreciate the fact that when it comes to your gun addiction your wife is your enabler.
I’ve know ranchers that keep them in a tool box in the barn, on the tractor, and in the glove compartment of the ranch pick-up truck. They are ugly, heavy, but tough as a bag of hammers. I’ve heard that if you sent one back to the factory for repair, they send it back to you with an extra magazine.
I had friend years ago, now passed on, who had a FFL, and he’d drop by my office periodically to show me his latest purchase. He was very eclectic in his tastes, so one time it might be an old Hopkins & Allen revolver, another time it might be something like a 10mm S&W revolver (although that one I never actually got to see because he kept it in his safety deposit box at the bank since it was so valuable). But one day he drops by and says with a grin, and almost sheepishly, “Well, I got something a little different today,” and he shows me a .40 cal Hi-Point. Like you he said, “They’re cheap pot metal, but I decided to try one, and this thing works!” Thanks for the memories. I miss Bob.
Making my own decision....I have many Hi end guns and my Hi Points, I like the way my Hi points look...They function just fine for me and love the latest one i bought...The JXP10mm.....The working mans gun made in the USA with best warranty in the gun Buissness!🙂❤
I really liked the C9 and the carbines are fantastic. If you look in the manual, it actually directs the user NOT to disassemble the gun, offering to clean it for you if you send it in.
MCARBO sells a lighter sear spring that helps reduce the trigger pull. Thingmyster sells triggers for these as well. I hope this helps other hi point owners. I ordered a sear spring for mine and will be getting a new trigger next.
Down Range supply and LongShot manufacturing and a couple others have [must have] oversized charging handles. Also if you want.. oversize mag release, replacement aluminium pic rails, barrel shrouds, brakes comps non threaded and threaded. EDIT: Almost forgot I think thingmiester hi-point and another have replacement grip panels as well
Solid review. At first I thought this was going to be a biased review but I was wrong. I've owned a .380 and 2 .40 ones. The larger caliber ones are MUCH less finicky about ammo choice. My 40s (one for myself and one for the missus) have had zero issues with any ball ammo and Winchester white boxes hollowpoints. Personally I like the looks and they sit great in the kydex holsters I bought. The holsters are OWB but with the long Hawaiian shirts I wear they're covered up just fine. Including the holsters both .40 pistols cost me under $375. These aren't my highest price firearms but they're fun to shoot and when something eventually wears out the repairs are free.
I'm watching with interest, but I'm not invested in the 10mm yet so it's not just a new gun it's new reloading dies etc. My interest is somewhat constrained by finances; this year buying a gun, even an inexpensive one, out of curiosity is not likely to be a thing.
The day I turned 21. I had $200 bucks. Went into the local shop picked up a Hipoint C9 for $95 bucks. Went to Walmart and got a couple hundred rounds of Perfecta brass fmj's. When you could still get handgun ammo at Walmart for 8 bucks a box. And had the time of my life. Put countless rounds threw it. Worked great. Until I dropped it on concrete one day and cracked the pot metal slide. If it wasn't for the Ole Hipoint. I probably would of never had any interest in firearms. I'm sure many others are the same way. It's a crap gun. But it does have a certain charm to it.
That crap gun would have been fixed by MoM [Hi-Point] for free and an extra return magazine for the trouble of sending it in. My JHP45 was my first center-fire semi auto handgun in 45auto (circa 2006). I was so impressed by it, I'll never get rid of it and I've been a fan of Hi-Point ever since. It's still more comfortable to shoot than my knuckle cutting Glock suck 21. I drooled and waited and drooled so long [like over 5 years] for the 4595ts Carbine to be released, I actually forgot I was on a list when they finally called. Thousands of rounds, custom camo paint job and user personalization later and that 1st gen, 1st run, circa 2011/12 HP 4595ts 45acp Carbine is still my favorite firearm to this day, right next to the 20/30rd standard capacity common use modern muskets we call ARs. "Useful IS as useful DOES" Hi-Point
@Flat Plane Oregon Um I did send it to Hi-point, I am very aware of their no-questions-asked transferable lifetime warranty. It took about 2 weeks and I got it back with a brand-new slide and a magazine. Still have it, but haven't got it out in years. Moved on to bigger and better things.
I don't remember lorcin being part of it, but it's been a minute since I researched it. However, if I recall, it was Iberia Arms, Strassell Machine, and Haskell Mfg, [I think Haskell is the 3rd] I am not entirely certain atm. They united to form the hi-point triangle to expand and solidify their companies. I believe it is owned today by Strassell Machine after he bought out Tom Deeb investor/designer/promoter, distributed by MKS Supply. Pretty sure there are some of those pre Hi-Point firearms still kicking a round down range today. Edited for content accuracy
Gun snobs kill when it comes to hi-point. One of the absolute best 9mms I've ever owned it a hi-point. 75 dollars is a killer deal. 45 ounces means true aim unless you just can't shoot. If it were made in your backyard you would love these guns. Just like those of us from ohio. This model is a monster but they make other smaller 40 cals that youd probably like. They're not much bigger than a Derringer
Hi point pistols are banned in Massachusetts (but not the carbines). I bought an m&p9 2.0 subcompact over and sd9ve and a regular (7/8 round capacity shield) because choices were very limited in January of 2021. Would have bought a p365 if that was an option then. Nice review.
Great review although I disagree about their ugliness. I've owned the JCP now for a few years and can't be happier with it, although it is a bit heavy to conceal carry, and even open carry on your hip for long periods of time. When I was in the US Army back in the Cold War era, my M16A2 was just as ugly, yet we never thought of them as such, but like the Hi Point, both have one purpose and that is to kill. Whether in battle or in the American landscape, no one really cares if a gun is beautiful at the second you use it as it was intended for. But admitingly it would easily perform nicely after getting abused in combat because how tough they are. I regularly use Armscor 180 gr FMJ and haven't had it jam yet and it groups well enough to work as a defense tool. Now if I spent all my hard earned money on bullets and spare time at the range, THEN I probably would like a pistol that was prettier and lighter to handle, and easy to take apart and reassemble for easy cleaning.
The beauty is that Hi-Point's look eerily similar to an early model blowback H&K vp70z design. Especially the new look JXP10. Oh the gun snob irony... Take comfort Hi-Point, thou art vindicated by H&K. Edited for content accuracy
@@tinkertalksguns7289 I certainly can't argue with you there. And 99.9% of the time, the Hi-Point's function flawlessly. I have participated in many a firearm training course professionally, and I have seen all makes and models have failures under stressful [for both man and machine] and extreme conditions. Even the 'vaunted' knuckle cutting Glock suck 17 19 20 21 and 22s, Sigs, smiths, Springfs, H&Ks, Rugers, Berrettas, 1911s as well as revolvers. Nothing and nobody is/are perfect. Thanks for the content and comment replies. Be safe, big love.
Hey, that's "tactical brick" to you there mister...lol I love my Hi-Point's as much as any of my defensive tools especially the 4595ts 45auto Carbine. And "as well made as a brick" is a huge compliment. There are brick made structures you have likely been in that are 100s if not 1000s of years old [even older I surmise, including the ones claimed to have been built in the 16-1900s] Heck, even the ruins are hard to demolish and requires heavy equipment the likes of which they allegedly didn't even have during those chisel donkey llama and horse drawn cart construction days. I would love to see them demonstrate hauling all the materials equipment labour force supplies food and housing needed to a remote mountain with no roads and those donkey wagons and then complete a construction of one of those castle manor capital buildings in a year to 3 like they claim on wiki. In fact many of those ruins [buildings, cities, towers, pyramids, ziggerats(sp?)etc] are today melted in to mountains and other so called natural rain wind glacier and river eroded geological structures, mines catacombs and such...but they are made of red brick internally. Muck to man Primitive past my irreducibly complex eye. Fascinating! Research MudFloods Remember Tartaria. Discover Meltology. Awaken from historical Amnesia. Good shootin
I can help but wonder if it would be possible to reprofile the slide without compromising the integrity of the slide. There's a lot to work with there.
Quite a few people have lightened slides and the like for these guns and don't seem to be breaking them, so there's room for a certain amount of mucking about..
No matter what everyones says about the High point,, with FMJ, the freakin things just works .. and works ,, and works. But I still dont own one. I do kinda like the carbine.
i had the high point c 9mm had it in the 380 i think the 380 i had shot better then the 9mm i own the 40 jcp as well never shot the 45 acp but from owning them over the years there a hit and miss the 40 cal i got isn't to bad it shoots better then my c 9mm i keep one in my pack because i live in bear country with pumas and id rather carry it then bear spray it like some ammo and hate most ammo i only shoot brass fmj out of mine i had a few issues shooting jhp out of mine and that steal case tula 40 cal ammo they hate tula i never could shoot steal case out of my right but it shoot brass ammo well with 9 round in the mag if i stick the full 10 in her it jams up and high point bought the Saturday night special company's up in the 90's called Jennings and cobra over there law suits from there guns not being carry safe when high point bought them out they fixed the Jennings and cobra issues of not being carry safe by putting a safety on them lol great video i still love jamomatic Saturday night special high point
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My first pistol was a Hi-point C9.
I read up on it and found out that it needed about 200 rounds to break it in and the magazine needed to be left loaded for a week or two for the spring to settle.
I racked the slide couple of hundred times and left the magazine loaded for couple of weeks.
Never had a jam.
I read somewhere that it wouldn't like aluminum cased ammo.
I ran aluminum, steel and brass cased ammo and never had an issue
Sold it and got a CZ 75 and never looked back.
And also, can we just take a minute to appreciate the fact that when it comes to your gun addiction your wife is your enabler.
Yes, yes she is. Hell, she got a C&R FFL so it was easier to buy me old guns!
I’ve know ranchers that keep them in a tool box in the barn, on the tractor, and in the glove compartment of the ranch pick-up truck. They are ugly, heavy, but tough as a bag of hammers. I’ve heard that if you sent one back to the factory for repair, they send it back to you with an extra magazine.
Yes, barn gun, all day long. Even if you carry out to the barn (I do), nice to have back-up in a tool box, wrapped in an oily rag.
I know someone that had one blowup because of a squib load. Hi-Point set it or a replacement back in perfect working order.
I had friend years ago, now passed on, who had a FFL, and he’d drop by my office periodically to show me his latest purchase. He was very eclectic in his tastes, so one time it might be an old Hopkins & Allen revolver, another time it might be something like a 10mm S&W revolver (although that one I never actually got to see because he kept it in his safety deposit box at the bank since it was so valuable). But one day he drops by and says with a grin, and almost sheepishly, “Well, I got something a little different today,” and he shows me a .40 cal Hi-Point. Like you he said, “They’re cheap pot metal, but I decided to try one, and this thing works!” Thanks for the memories. I miss Bob.
Making my own decision....I have many Hi end guns and my Hi Points, I like the way my Hi points look...They function just fine for me and love the latest one i bought...The JXP10mm.....The working mans gun made in the USA with best warranty in the gun Buissness!🙂❤
Truth!
I really liked the C9 and the carbines are fantastic.
If you look in the manual, it actually directs the user NOT to disassemble the gun, offering to clean it for you if you send it in.
Well done!
MCARBO sells a lighter sear spring that helps reduce the trigger pull. Thingmyster sells triggers for these as well. I hope this helps other hi point owners. I ordered a sear spring for mine and will be getting a new trigger next.
Thanks for sharing that info!
Down Range supply and LongShot manufacturing and a couple others have [must have] oversized charging handles.
Also if you want.. oversize mag release, replacement aluminium pic rails, barrel shrouds, brakes comps non threaded and threaded.
EDIT: Almost forgot I think thingmiester hi-point and another have replacement grip panels as well
Solid review. At first I thought this was going to be a biased review but I was wrong. I've owned a .380 and 2 .40 ones. The larger caliber ones are MUCH less finicky about ammo choice. My 40s (one for myself and one for the missus) have had zero issues with any ball ammo and Winchester white boxes hollowpoints. Personally I like the looks and they sit great in the kydex holsters I bought. The holsters are OWB but with the long Hawaiian shirts I wear they're covered up just fine. Including the holsters both .40 pistols cost me under $375. These aren't my highest price firearms but they're fun to shoot and when something eventually wears out the repairs are free.
You should buy the new JXP 10MM HIPOINT PISTOL it's a good gun. Look into the carbines, too.
I'm watching with interest, but I'm not invested in the 10mm yet so it's not just a new gun it's new reloading dies etc. My interest is somewhat constrained by finances; this year buying a gun, even an inexpensive one, out of curiosity is not likely to be a thing.
@tinkertalksguns7289 I see. Apparently, you haven't hit the power ball yet either. 😃😄 Thank you for responding.
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I bought the 45 model and it worked every time
I agree 100 or $200 more for something better is out of budget
Getting hi point 40
Next 40 carbine
The day I turned 21. I had $200 bucks. Went into the local shop picked up a Hipoint C9 for $95 bucks. Went to Walmart and got a couple hundred rounds of Perfecta brass fmj's. When you could still get handgun ammo at Walmart for 8 bucks a box. And had the time of my life. Put countless rounds threw it. Worked great. Until I dropped it on concrete one day and cracked the pot metal slide. If it wasn't for the Ole Hipoint. I probably would of never had any interest in firearms. I'm sure many others are the same way. It's a crap gun. But it does have a certain charm to it.
That crap gun would have been fixed by MoM [Hi-Point] for free and an extra return magazine for the trouble of sending it in.
My JHP45 was my first center-fire semi auto handgun in 45auto (circa 2006).
I was so impressed by it, I'll never get rid of it and I've been a fan of Hi-Point ever since.
It's still more comfortable to shoot than my knuckle cutting Glock suck 21.
I drooled and waited and drooled so long [like over 5 years] for the 4595ts Carbine to be released, I actually forgot I was on a list when they finally called.
Thousands of rounds, custom camo paint job and user personalization later and that 1st gen, 1st run, circa 2011/12 HP 4595ts 45acp Carbine is still my favorite firearm to this day, right next to the 20/30rd standard capacity common use modern muskets we call ARs.
"Useful IS as useful DOES"
Hi-Point
@Flat Plane Oregon Um I did send it to Hi-point, I am very aware of their no-questions-asked transferable lifetime warranty. It took about 2 weeks and I got it back with a brand-new slide and a magazine. Still have it, but haven't got it out in years. Moved on to bigger and better things.
These guns eventually evolved from a company called Lorcin. Good review as always!
I don't remember lorcin being part of it, but it's been a minute since I researched it. However, if I recall, it was Iberia Arms, Strassell Machine, and Haskell Mfg, [I think Haskell is the 3rd] I am not entirely certain atm.
They united to form the hi-point triangle to expand and solidify their companies.
I believe it is owned today by Strassell Machine after he bought out Tom Deeb investor/designer/promoter, distributed by MKS Supply.
Pretty sure there are some of those pre Hi-Point firearms still kicking a round down range today.
Edited for content accuracy
Gun snobs kill when it comes to hi-point. One of the absolute best 9mms I've ever owned it a hi-point. 75 dollars is a killer deal. 45 ounces means true aim unless you just can't shoot. If it were made in your backyard you would love these guns. Just like those of us from ohio. This model is a monster but they make other smaller 40 cals that youd probably like. They're not much bigger than a Derringer
I thjnk they look pretty cool and i really love mine, they work
Hi point pistols are banned in Massachusetts (but not the carbines). I bought an m&p9 2.0 subcompact over and sd9ve and a regular (7/8 round capacity shield) because choices were very limited in January of 2021. Would have bought a p365 if that was an option then. Nice review.
What hollow points did your 40 caliber like?
It seemed to do fine with Gold Dots, HST and Hydra-Shock.
I did some modifications on the mag and works a lot better.
This might be a candidate for you to practice your engraving skills, you know - turn it into a gaudy BBQ gun (kinda).
Great review although I disagree about their ugliness. I've owned the JCP now for a few years and can't be happier with it, although it is a bit heavy to conceal carry, and even open carry on your hip for long periods of time. When I was in the US Army back in the Cold War era, my M16A2 was just as ugly, yet we never thought of them as such, but like the Hi Point, both have one purpose and that is to kill. Whether in battle or in the American landscape, no one really cares if a gun is beautiful at the second you use it as it was intended for. But admitingly it would easily perform nicely after getting abused in combat because how tough they are. I regularly use Armscor 180 gr FMJ and haven't had it jam yet and it groups well enough to work as a defense tool. Now if I spent all my hard earned money on bullets and spare time at the range, THEN I probably would like a pistol that was prettier and lighter to handle, and easy to take apart and reassemble for easy cleaning.
Beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder. I have to admire a focused, purpose-built tool that does it's job.
The beauty is that Hi-Point's look eerily similar to an early model blowback H&K vp70z design. Especially the new look JXP10.
Oh the gun snob irony...
Take comfort Hi-Point, thou art vindicated by H&K.
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Of course the VP70 was a pretty awful gun; Hi Points at least are inexpensive and still in production. Warranty service is excellent, too.
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I certainly can't argue with you there.
And 99.9% of the time, the Hi-Point's function flawlessly.
I have participated in many a firearm training course professionally, and I have seen all makes and models have failures under stressful [for both man and machine] and extreme conditions.
Even the 'vaunted' knuckle cutting Glock suck 17 19 20 21 and 22s, Sigs, smiths, Springfs, H&Ks, Rugers, Berrettas, 1911s as well as revolvers.
Nothing and nobody is/are perfect.
Thanks for the content and comment replies.
Be safe, big love.
i put a hogue grip sleeve on mine it last me a long time.
Hey, that's "tactical brick" to you there mister...lol
I love my Hi-Point's as much as any of my defensive tools especially the 4595ts 45auto Carbine.
And "as well made as a brick" is a huge compliment.
There are brick made structures you have likely been in that are 100s if not 1000s of years old [even older I surmise, including the ones claimed to have been built in the 16-1900s]
Heck, even the ruins are hard to demolish and requires heavy equipment the likes of which they allegedly didn't even have during those chisel donkey llama and horse drawn cart construction days.
I would love to see them demonstrate hauling all the materials equipment labour force supplies food and housing needed to a remote mountain with no roads and those donkey wagons and then complete a construction of one of those castle manor capital buildings in a year to 3 like they claim on wiki.
In fact many of those ruins [buildings, cities, towers, pyramids, ziggerats(sp?)etc] are today melted in to mountains and other so called natural rain wind glacier and river eroded geological structures, mines catacombs and such...but they are made of red brick internally.
Muck to man Primitive past my irreducibly complex eye.
Fascinating!
Research MudFloods
Remember Tartaria.
Discover Meltology.
Awaken from historical Amnesia.
Good shootin
Our ancestors did amazing things. Didn't need no stinkin' ETs to help 'em either! Those way-back folks were smart.
I can help but wonder if it would be possible to reprofile the slide without compromising the integrity of the slide. There's a lot to work with there.
Quite a few people have lightened slides and the like for these guns and don't seem to be breaking them, so there's room for a certain amount of mucking about..
I'll take it
Zamac? This is the Hi Point and Hot Wheels crossover I never knew existed. 😂
No matter what everyones says about the High point,, with FMJ, the freakin things just works .. and works ,, and works. But I still dont own one. I do kinda like the carbine.
Get the carbine that you want.
i had the high point c 9mm had it in the 380 i think the 380 i had shot better then the 9mm i own the 40 jcp as well never shot the 45 acp but from owning them over the years there a hit and miss the 40 cal i got isn't to bad it shoots better then my c 9mm i keep one in my pack because i live in bear country with pumas and id rather carry it then bear spray it like some ammo and hate most ammo i only shoot brass fmj out of mine i had a few issues shooting jhp out of mine and that steal case tula 40 cal ammo they hate tula i never could shoot steal case out of my right but it shoot brass ammo well with 9 round in the mag if i stick the full 10 in her it jams up and high point bought the Saturday night special company's up in the 90's called Jennings and cobra over there law suits from there guns not being carry safe when high point bought them out they fixed the Jennings and cobra issues of not being carry safe by putting a safety on them lol great video i still love jamomatic Saturday night special high point
C’mon man, it’s a great company and a great line of pistols and carbines. PERIOD.
I have to say i picked up a squib and blew mine up the warranty replaced it and today i ran 60 rounds flawless and accurate.
Nice! They have an excellent rep for customer service.
Don't judge a book
$175 for my 40 h.point.
I took the mag safety out of mine.
I did too.
hi point has 10 mm
I'll buy it
LOL- Thanks, but I think I'll hang on to it at this point.