Indiana Jones used a Browning Hi-Power in the Bar shoot out scene in the first movie. People tend to forget it that due to him using more revolvers then semi auto pistols.
@@williamjeffries5074 Nope. I just checked the scene, he unrolls the revolver from a towel and throws it into the case. No automatic seen It's crap continuity.
I'm disappointed in myself that I laughed at that. It was ALMOST worth the shame and ignominy I now feel, to have chuckled heartily at it, despite myself.
I knew a Canadian combat engineer who had a hi-power go off in his holster while breaching a door. Turns out the hi-power had been in service since Normandy, and had a severely shorn down firing pin. It got a good tuning up afterwards
@@Thegaming_husky It's not the design that is poor, just the age of the individual pieces militaries keep in stock. Granted there are more practical weapons available.
Available in WW 2, yes. Common no. As mentioned they were extremely rare during the war years because of limited production and they mostly went to special forces units as a result. So credible to be seen but not for average front line troops.
@@silverjohn6037 That's an interesting fact and also other Browning firearms you can mention to JJ may want to look up a similar looking Maxim type gun only it isn't the Maxim the 1917 Browning water cooled Machine gun and the 50 caliber M2 as good candidates there.
@@silverjohn6037 I mean, it's not like the rarity of a particular weapon has ever stopped devs from putting it in their game before. I think it's just a matter of the 1911 being too iconic and the Hi-power looking too "modern".
Interesting Fact: The Hi-Power was trialed for the French Army but it was rejected in favor of the Modèle 1935 pistol. It was however accepted into the Belgium Army as the Grande Puissance.
@@MM22966 I've heard whispers about sugar being put in MRAP carriers at police stations. The city obviously can't justify the expense since the last one was army surplus. So they're never repaired. Damn the second Iraq War.
Also another handgun you can tell JJ to look into the ones Dirty Harry uses like the 44 Magnum Revolver if he hasn't done so yet or otherwise known as the Smith & Wesson Model 29.
128 patents, the vast majority of pistols use his design principles, created the longest serving machine gun in history, and many others. While he did improve the concept designs of others, there isn't a single inventor who holds a candle to the vast number of categories Browning had put his mind to.
Man, I love this gun. The first high-capacity handgun firing a universally used pistol cartridge and serves as a basis for modern handguns of today alongside the m1911.
Honorable mention: The various dramatized versions of the 1980 Iran Embassy Hostage Rescue in London. The SAS did love their Hi-Powers with extended mags back then... Also shown in another similar (and great!) SAS movie, Who Dares Wins/Final Option (1982).
The latter is a terrible movie that I will defend to my grave. No criticism allowed but my own. The morse code is terrible, the action is fantastic. Plus Edward Woodward!
@@aaronleverton4221 I ran across it on RUclips and was amazed I had never heard of it! REALLY tight gunplay/shooting/CQB! (though the plot/acting was a little goofy)
@@MM22966 The same producer, Euan Lloyd, had a bit of a run of British action films at the time The Wild Geese, The Sea Wolves, Who Dares Wins, Wild Geese II. The last one is the least "British" of them. Not a bad thriller, but Richard Burton died before he could play Colonel Faulker again.
I remember it from 2 games: Fallout New Vegas: Named in game as "9mm Pistol Call of Duty Black Ops 2: Used to threaten and shoot Raul Menendez (The main antagonist) in the eye, and by a wounded Frank Woods to kill a soldier who shot Hudson both iconic (at least to me) uses are in the first mission (Pyrrhic Victory)
Minor correction, FN did not resume production of the Browning High Power. The FN High Power is almost completely rebuilt. It has a standard FN taken lever and has been reinforced to withstand +P loads. It also has ambidextrous controls and uses proprietary 17 round magazines that do not work with Brownings and vice versa.
Another fact. The Browning Hi- Power is still being made in India. In fact this was the first pistol to be used by Indian Army as previously revolvers were being used as a sidearm by our army. Also this is a standard issue pistol for most of the State Police departments. And India acquired the tooling to make this pistol from the same factory in Canada you mentioned.
Here it is the weapon of the previous generation. Most of us have rather large hands and we switched to the Glock 17 during the 90's. Only a few remaining for special operation forces. If we didn't grow to an average size of 187 cm over the last 2 generations we would probably still be using them.
The very first firearm I ever baught in 1994 was a Browning Hi Power. Still own & shoot it regularly today. In my opinion the best pistol ever. Thanks Johnny & keep up the great videos.👍
Also can say thanks on that as well and who knows for other ideas could do one on what the character Spike was carrying as a main sidearm the Jericho and Colt 1911 looks good if it hasn't been done yet also legendary,Mi-24 Hind, B-52 Bomber and well there's a whole lot to get through but only so little time.
Wow. I'm impressed. I tried to make my wife learn the difference between a single shot .410 and a coach 12 guage. She could barely handle that let alone the different boxes of ammo for each. This was in case I spotted a copperhead or rattlesnake and couldn't leave it (they'll stay put if you're watching them, but skedaddle as soon as you turn your back). I tried to continue with the AR and mags but she said enough! This is too much for me to remember. This, coming from a woman who is a pediatrician and attended MIT for something I don't even know what for. Much respect for your knowledge and support for your husband's collection. I never lie to my wife, but , let's just say , I try to always pay cash for my firearms so they don't show up on her Saturday morning credit card check-offs. Well done you.
@@harperhellems3648 Me and my husband have our own collection i love pistols like the Walther PPK which i own one but my concealed carry is a Bersa thunder 380 also the CZ-75 is my favorite because of my favorite anime woman Rally Vincent of Gunsmith Cats! I fell for firearms when my older brothers did airsoft while they were teenagers. I played airsoft with my friends in highschool and when i married my husband i was happy to marry him being a combat veteran! He was a radio operator
Something oddly comforting about the HP, unlike the Sigs and Glocks, like a boring but old reliable friend who never lets you down. Loved the BHP in the army.
my grandfather fought in the belgian army throughout ww2 (18day crusade went to england, fought and survived the war) He was an antitank gunner in 1940 and they where armed with FN HIPOWER's (or FN GP's as we call them here) with an attachable stock, really cool. he did tell me they also picked up rifles they found because they lacked the range to fight back properly when they came under fire from anywhere that was further then 50M. FLASH forward to 2010, i joined up and my grandfather was still alive he asked me about the guns we use these days so i started naming all the guns i fired (FN FNC,FN MAG,FN MINIMI,FN UZI,P90 etc) none of them really where familiar to him ofcourse until i said FN GP (which was replaced around 2015 by the 5.7) after which his eyes started sparkling and said: "ohhhh THE GP, amazing pistol, i shot 2 germans in maldegem(a town in belgium) with my GP back in '40) followed by a small silence and me and my cousin ended up responding with something along the lines of: "that's really cool grandpa" he passed away 10 years ago of old age. i still miss him to this day.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Because of new advanced weapons systems, they thought that a single pilot would have too much to handle during combat and asked to much...But lol
Also one of Indiana Jones guns, perhaps his least iconic. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, he pulls a hi-power out of his bag after firing all six rounds from his 1917 revolver. Considering the movie takes place in 1936, it must have been a very early gun.
Regarding the year Raiders takes place, I think I remember hearing somewhere the Hi-Power Indy uses in the bar fight scene was supposed to represent a 1911, but they only had 9mm blanks on set so they ended up having to use handguns chambered in that caliber (the Browning Hi-Power being one of them). Please note that I haven't fact-checked this and it's been a while since I heard about it, so take it with a grain of salt (just doing my due-diligence so that I don't end up spreading misinformation).
@@TheEldritchHyena You might be right, 9mm blanks are the most common in Hollywood. In Pulp Fiction they have 1911s, but they're in 9mm because that's the blanks they had.
@@astrotrek3534, Of course it is fictional, and yet they still had the Africa Korps Tan and Sand coloured camouflage uniforms, coincidence? Random soldiers, I think not.
You and your FN (Herstal) puns at the end of your videos always get a chuckle from me. Great vid! One of my greatest regrets was selling off my my Hi-Power due to circumstance, but some seven years later, I am not the proud owner of one once again
I know a man who had a high power, was his military issue pistol that he then bought from the military he served, it was manufactured in 1951 and in 1996 he had the springs replaced and new sights fitted because of wear and its still working fine now.
WHAT AN AWESOME OPENING CHOICE, JOHNNY!!!! To this day, I can't hear the song "In the Rain" without picturing Spike calmly walking into that church shootout with Vicious' crew to rescue Faye!
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq *Head-thump* Yeah, he was a Jericho man, wasn't he? Great Goo bless the Japanese and their relentless fanboy-level attention to detail!
Except Browning HATED the magazine capacity! That was all Saive, he had the mag working before the pistol, showed it to Browning and Browning was not impressed. Thankfully Saive prevailed after Browning's death, though he had to almost completely redesign the handgun.
@@robertharper3754 it was strange how most of the early automatics had such small mags- as thats ther major advantage over revolvers .So kudos to Salve -for sticking to his guns
Special Forces from WWII that liked the Browning Hi-Power included the SAS, SOE, British Commandos, and a few other organizations too! Personally it’s criminally underrepresented in WWII media, especially amongst those forces.
My first handgun I bought at 21 last year. I got the SA-35 and its been a gorgeous piece I've owned. Hi Power is what comes to my mind since 5 whenever I hear or think: "9mm Pistol"
Not really, you can get a smaller lighter Glock 19 that still has 15. Nowadays there are 15 round Hi-Power mags, but with the same technology, other guns like the Beretta 92 now can have 17 rounds. Then you have the Sig P320 with 21 rounds of 9mm in slightly extended mags.
@@justalurker3489, the amount of rounds available in a magazine does not make a gun better of worse, what matters is your marksmanship, if you are a shit shot, or use the American method then get a gun that supports a larger magazine capacity. I was in the ADF and used to train all of the newcomers to the Battalion to our standard of Efficiency, Safety and Accuracy on all small arms, this included the Hi-Power and to qualify on the weapon, after instruction and practice, they had to be able to score at least 10 hits out of each 13 shots at 25 metres on a 40cm diameter target with 6 magazines every 6 months. The Hi-Power has an excellent magazine capacity, 13 is unlucky for anyone on the wrong end of this weapon, especially in the hands of someone that I had trained.
@@copter2000, and here is someone that has to have a 32 round mag in their Glock to even have a chance at hitting anything, even if the target is in the same telephone booth as they are. BTW, marksmanship is not everything but it is a very large part of the process, no good giving anyone a weapon if they don't know how to hit the target, we used to send those ones off to HQ to teach them to type. You must be a very good typist, I am right copter, aren't I.
@gregedwards1087 Yeah magazine capacity absolutely matters, that's WHY the Hi-power was created. If you can accurately and effectively use a Hi-Power with 13 rounds, then you will be even more effective with more rounds. Yeah 13 rounds is still sufficient for most purposes, but sufficient doesn't mean that more isn't more effective.
Bo Dietl as a police officer held a nice silver chrome, adjustable rear sight Browning Hi Power on Ray Liotta's head in 'Goodfellas' And 'Switch' had another nice chrome, adjustable rear sight Hi Power in the first Matrix movie! Love these timeless fine pistols!
First moment - wait Spike Spigel uses IMI Jericho 941 in one episode he goes for Ruger P89! Then I saw it - the syndicate guy holding Fay has Browning GP. More than happy thay You kept original soundtrack in this piece. A similar gun of an era is VIS wz35 with designs elemnts to pass Browning patents ;) BTW in slomo with Brat one can see blank carriages in place of live brass.
Strange, todays ain't none of the two Brownings has a birthday, yet it is the second video about B-HP I got today. I didn't even 'knew' that this gun existed.
Nice pick, using the superlative English dub for Cowboy Bebop... ah, says something when an old gun still works on a space setting with terraformed planets. 5:32: I assume this is il Teatrino? Doesn't look like the somber Madhouse art.
Oh yeah that is really another big one that should have it's video and you mean the machine gun along with it's rival the Soviet DSHK which you can tell Johnny about as well.
@@kellychuang8373 Now that would be a fantastic idea, Forgotten weapons recently did the Russian Kord. You know what he should do all three individually then do a video no one has done, and compare all three in one video. What do you think?
I'm in the USCG, and in 2018 I sailed with the Australian Navy. I was surprised to see they still had HI Powers in their armory on the ship I was on. It's amazing how such an old design is still kicking strong today.
Man, I love my Hi Power. Got a used one back in 2017 for like $450 or something like that because the sporting goods store that sold it was going out of business. I heard they marked down all the used guns so I went to that store for the first (and last) time of my life. Great deal on a solid pistol. The side of the rear sight has a bit of a dent in it, but since it isn't the part of the sight you actually 'use' its more of a cosmetic thing. I don't shoot it as often now since I got my USP .45, but I still love it.
We used it up until the late 90's and some oldtimers had one up until the end of the 2000's. It is a good weapon but i liked the size of the new weapon (Glock 17) better but i miss the safety. Being an instructor became a lot more dangerous around new recruits.
I got nothing, Johnny. Love that weapon. Fantastic shot, a little dirty, but sweet action and accurate. Thanks for the episode, man. Take care, keep safe.
Ah....Mrs C,s side arm....as well as a Sterling sub machine gun to protect her patients, back in the BAOR..British Army of the Rhine....nice one sir....E...😊😊
My first experience with the Browning Hi Power was unpleasant. It was the standard side arms of my country's armed forces which was in inventory since the 1970s and are old and poorly kept. That being said when I tapped the magazine to set the cartridges, magazine lips broke off sending cartridges on the ground. Then the recoil spring broke causing a slide failure.
You left out Amanda Tapping as Helen Magnes in Sanctuary. Her main carry pistol was a HP If you remove the mag safety it improves the trigger pull My favorite pistol next to the 1911
At West Point Museum they recently put in a trophy from WWII. It's a Browning automatic pistol that was captured from a German sniper which was given to their wounded commander who was shot by the sniper.
The Browning Hi- Power is really underrated. The first time I ever saw a Browning Hi-Power was in the original Resident Evil 2, and it was both Claire Redfield and Ada Wong's starting handgun in that game.
Absolutely love this 'un. Its kind of amazing just how ahead of the time it was. Until the Wonder 9 era, you couldn't really get a higher capacity semi-automatic without using completely obscene magazines that basically turned your gun into a carbine.
While a gun is a gun- any bullet hurts like a bitch, no matter where it came from- the Hi-Power really has that "really? You brought THAT?" Reputation and rightfully so.
Nice, starting off the video with Cowboy Bebop! 0:36 Another film where Ray Liotta has a Hi-Power pointed at him, the other being Goodfellas, where he is more fortunate as "...if they had been Wiseguys, I wouldn't have heard a thing. I would've been dead." 2:43 It is more of the hammer needing to be cocked first (like on a single action revolver, such as the SAA), either by itself or by operating the slide.
Pretty funny at the end with the airbag inflating ever so slowly. Anyone who had been in a real car accident knows it's a fraction of a second with a 12 gauge round. Sparks and powered burns, very disorienting
I 've been hoping you would make a vid of the Hi Power👍 I have a German Occupation Hi Power (De act as I'm in the UK) They were mostly issued to Fallschirmjager and Waffen SS, though generally more poorly finished than the Inglese Canadian manufacture.
The classic “wait that’s not a 1911…is it? No wait it’s not”
Check out an argentine hi power copy, its even more 1911 shaped
Serpico.
Also not a bad idea about having a video on that as it's own standalone video for JJ may want to tell him that.
The Browning hi-Power vs M1911 Cult
@@jasonsantos3037 That's also another good idea as well. Though who knows some other video channel may get on that.
Indiana Jones used a Browning Hi-Power in the Bar shoot out scene in the first movie. People tend to forget it that due to him using more revolvers then semi auto pistols.
He was originally going to use a 1911 in that scene, but it was changed to a browning because it was easier to work with 9mm blanks.
It's actually crap continuity because he clearly throws a revolver into his suitcase while packing before departure.
@@aaronleverton4221 He used both a revolver and a browning in the shootout. He brought two pistols with him.
@@williamjeffries5074 Nope. I just checked the scene, he unrolls the revolver from a towel and throws it into the case. No automatic seen It's crap continuity.
@aaronleverton4221 are you really that affected by what a fictional character uses in a movie
"I did not shoot her. It's not true. It's bulls#$%. I did not shoot her. I did not. Oh, hi-power."
Seriously funny.
@@Lord.KiltridgeAgreed. Funny and way more original than the typical comments people copy paste just to get pointless likes
Nice
I'm disappointed in myself that I laughed at that. It was ALMOST worth the shame and ignominy I now feel, to have chuckled heartily at it, despite myself.
I love how original this joke is lmao
Not as clumsy or as random as a broomhandle C96, an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
*for a more civilized age.
@@hellbent650 Yeah, I forget to proofread somstimes
not many are that clumsy but it was the first!!!
Well guess what, times have changed.
I knew a Canadian combat engineer who had a hi-power go off in his holster while breaching a door. Turns out the hi-power had been in service since Normandy, and had a severely shorn down firing pin. It got a good tuning up afterwards
i am not surprised that happened. the hi power should have been out of service for over 10 years by now.
@@Thegaming_husky
It's not the design that is poor, just the age of the individual pieces militaries keep in stock. Granted there are more practical weapons available.
@@Thegaming_husky Garbage. That particular pistol may have passed its use-by date, but the design has not.
was anyone hurt?
@@bakatzen6243 nope
Ironic how common this firearms was but has yet to be used in a lot of WW2 games.
Available in WW 2, yes. Common no. As mentioned they were extremely rare during the war years because of limited production and they mostly went to special forces units as a result. So credible to be seen but not for average front line troops.
@@silverjohn6037 That's an interesting fact and also other Browning firearms you can mention to JJ may want to look up a similar looking Maxim type gun only it isn't the Maxim the 1917 Browning water cooled Machine gun and the 50 caliber M2 as good candidates there.
@@silverjohn6037 I mean, it's not like the rarity of a particular weapon has ever stopped devs from putting it in their game before. I think it's just a matter of the 1911 being too iconic and the Hi-power looking too "modern".
Interesting Fact:
The Hi-Power was trialed for the French Army but it was rejected in favor of the Modèle 1935 pistol. It was however accepted into the Belgium Army as the Grande Puissance.
You forgot "Serpico".
Gun store owner: "You expecting an army?"
Frank Serpico: "No. Just a division"
Heh, a line that could only have been uttered back when police forces mostly carried six-shot revolvers!
@@MM22966 I've heard whispers about sugar being put in MRAP carriers at police stations. The city obviously can't justify the expense since the last one was army surplus.
So they're never repaired. Damn the second Iraq War.
Also another handgun you can tell JJ to look into the ones Dirty Harry uses like the 44 Magnum Revolver if he hasn't done so yet or otherwise known as the Smith & Wesson Model 29.
The Final Option. Six Days. Goodfellas has a close up of a Novak in Ray Liottas ear.
Ah yee, more guns by Browning
Only the finest guns
I wonder if Johnny has done a video of one of my favorite pistols, the 1911.
J
128 patents, the vast majority of pistols use his design principles, created the longest serving machine gun in history, and many others. While he did improve the concept designs of others, there isn't a single inventor who holds a candle to the vast number of categories Browning had put his mind to.
American made friend
Man, I love this gun. The first high-capacity handgun firing a universally used pistol cartridge and serves as a basis for modern handguns of today alongside the m1911.
If the FN FAL was the right arm of the free world, the Hi-Power was the left hand.
When I think of a pistol, I picture a Browning Hi-Power
Honorable mention: The various dramatized versions of the 1980 Iran Embassy Hostage Rescue in London. The SAS did love their Hi-Powers with extended mags back then...
Also shown in another similar (and great!) SAS movie, Who Dares Wins/Final Option (1982).
The latter is a terrible movie that I will defend to my grave. No criticism allowed but my own. The morse code is terrible, the action is fantastic. Plus Edward Woodward!
@@aaronleverton4221 I ran across it on RUclips and was amazed I had never heard of it! REALLY tight gunplay/shooting/CQB!
(though the plot/acting was a little goofy)
@@MM22966 The same producer, Euan Lloyd, had a bit of a run of British action films at the time The Wild Geese, The Sea Wolves, Who Dares Wins, Wild Geese II. The last one is the least "British" of them. Not a bad thriller, but Richard Burton died before he could play Colonel Faulker again.
@@aaronleverton4221 Ah! Thanks! Didn't know! I will look up others! I loved the Wild Geese since I was a kid!
I remember it from 2 games:
Fallout New Vegas: Named in game as "9mm Pistol
Call of Duty Black Ops 2: Used to threaten and shoot Raul Menendez (The main antagonist) in the eye, and by a wounded Frank Woods to kill a soldier who shot Hudson both iconic (at least to me) uses are in the first mission (Pyrrhic Victory)
Minor correction, FN did not resume production of the Browning High Power. The FN High Power is almost completely rebuilt. It has a standard FN taken lever and has been reinforced to withstand +P loads. It also has ambidextrous controls and uses proprietary 17 round magazines that do not work with Brownings and vice versa.
Another fact. The Browning Hi- Power is still being made in India. In fact this was the first pistol to be used by Indian Army as previously revolvers were being used as a sidearm by our army. Also this is a standard issue pistol for most of the State Police departments. And India acquired the tooling to make this pistol from the same factory in Canada you mentioned.
How much does it cost?
Here it is the weapon of the previous generation. Most of us have rather large hands and we switched to the Glock 17 during the 90's. Only a few remaining for special operation forces. If we didn't grow to an average size of 187 cm over the last 2 generations we would probably still be using them.
John Moses Browning passed before this could be completed. Fortunately he had a protege to Saive the project and finish it. 😅
Waiting for someone to comment "I see what you did there" because the rest of us have neither eyes nor understanding.
The very first firearm I ever baught in 1994 was a Browning Hi Power. Still own & shoot it regularly today. In my opinion the best pistol ever. Thanks Johnny & keep up the great videos.👍
Also can say thanks on that as well and who knows for other ideas could do one on what the character Spike was carrying as a main sidearm the Jericho and Colt 1911 looks good if it hasn't been done yet also legendary,Mi-24 Hind, B-52 Bomber and well there's a whole lot to get through but only so little time.
my husband’s 3rd pistol in his collection his top pistol is a Cz-75 2nd a South African Licensed Beretta and this 3rd is this wonderful pistol.
Wow. I'm impressed. I tried to make my wife learn the difference between a single shot .410 and a coach 12 guage. She could barely handle that let alone the different boxes of ammo for each. This was in case I spotted a copperhead or rattlesnake and couldn't leave it (they'll stay put if you're watching them, but skedaddle as soon as you turn your back). I tried to continue with the AR and mags but she said enough! This is too much for me to remember. This, coming from a woman who is a pediatrician and attended MIT for something I don't even know what for. Much respect for your knowledge and support for your husband's collection. I never lie to my wife, but , let's just say , I try to always pay cash for my firearms so they don't show up on her Saturday morning credit card check-offs. Well done you.
@@harperhellems3648 Me and my husband have our own collection i love pistols like the Walther PPK
which i own one but my concealed carry is a Bersa thunder 380 also the CZ-75 is my favorite because of my favorite anime woman Rally Vincent of Gunsmith Cats! I fell for firearms when my older brothers did airsoft while they were teenagers. I played airsoft with my friends in highschool and when i married my husband i was happy to marry him being a combat veteran! He was a radio operator
Something oddly comforting about the HP, unlike the Sigs and Glocks, like a boring but old reliable friend who never lets you down.
Loved the BHP in the army.
Same for 1911
I carried Hi-Power DA in FDFs in 2015 when i served as a MP.
I have had a Hi-Power since 1988. Fantastic pistol, very comfortable to shoot. It was my carry gun for many years.
Great Cowboy Bebop clip. They were super detailed and accurate with the the guns in that show.
my grandfather fought in the belgian army throughout ww2 (18day crusade went to england, fought and survived the war)
He was an antitank gunner in 1940 and they where armed with FN HIPOWER's (or FN GP's as we call them here) with an attachable stock, really cool.
he did tell me they also picked up rifles they found because they lacked the range to fight back properly when they came under fire from anywhere that was further then 50M.
FLASH forward to 2010, i joined up and my grandfather was still alive he asked me about the guns we use these days so i started naming all the guns i fired (FN FNC,FN MAG,FN MINIMI,FN UZI,P90 etc) none of them really where familiar to him ofcourse until i said FN GP (which was replaced around 2015 by the 5.7) after which his eyes started sparkling and said: "ohhhh THE GP, amazing pistol, i shot 2 germans in maldegem(a town in belgium) with my GP back in '40) followed by a small silence and me and my cousin ended up responding with something along the lines of: "that's really cool grandpa"
he passed away 10 years ago of old age.
i still miss him to this day.
Excellent Axel Foley clip to finish on too! :)
Jesus, was not expecting a gunslinger girl clip in a video like this LOL
l have owned several Hi-Powers but always went back to the 1911's.....Thanks JJ my friend......
Old F-4 II Shoe🇺🇸
What did you carry during your service?
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq...a black belt in Origami and the lethal ability to fold people into lion shapes 😅😅
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Because of new advanced weapons systems, they thought that a single pilot would have too much to handle during combat and asked to much...But lol
Also one of Indiana Jones guns, perhaps his least iconic. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, he pulls a hi-power out of his bag after firing all six rounds from his 1917 revolver. Considering the movie takes place in 1936, it must have been a very early gun.
Regarding the year Raiders takes place, I think I remember hearing somewhere the Hi-Power Indy uses in the bar fight scene was supposed to represent a 1911, but they only had 9mm blanks on set so they ended up having to use handguns chambered in that caliber (the Browning Hi-Power being one of them). Please note that I haven't fact-checked this and it's been a while since I heard about it, so take it with a grain of salt (just doing my due-diligence so that I don't end up spreading misinformation).
@@TheEldritchHyena You might be right, 9mm blanks are the most common in Hollywood. In Pulp Fiction they have 1911s, but they're in 9mm because that's the blanks they had.
Not forgetting the fact that the Afrika Korps only existed from January 1941 to May 1943, five years AFTER the movie timeline.
@@gregedwards1087 Well, it's fictional. The soldiers in the movie aren't Afrika Korps, they're just random soldiers on a mission to find the ark.
@@astrotrek3534, Of course it is fictional, and yet they still had the Africa Korps Tan and Sand coloured camouflage uniforms, coincidence? Random soldiers, I think not.
4:29 'BAT*21'. Now there's a movie that needs more appreciation.
A rather elegant sidearm that is still going strong. HI-Power really isn't just a name for it, it's the pistol's very way of life.
You and your FN (Herstal) puns at the end of your videos always get a chuckle from me. Great vid! One of my greatest regrets was selling off my my Hi-Power due to circumstance, but some seven years later, I am not the proud owner of one once again
Very cool. Thank you! Happy and safe shooting.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq No other kind of shooting exist for me. Thank you!
The Browning Hi Power is perfectly made, for an archeologist who’s fighting Nazis in Nepal.
The new Indiana Jones game is coming out, Heard it's rally good
I've had mine since 1977. Love that pistol.
You know it's gonna be a good one when it has a anime thumbnail.
Dog soldiers actor Sean Pertwee did also a messed up WW2 movie named "The Last Drop" (2005).
The Last drop was a good movie after hours.
Seeing a Gunslinger Girl thumbnail in the wild gave me whiplash. Got me checking your M1897 video lol
I know a man who had a high power, was his military issue pistol that he then bought from the military he served, it was manufactured in 1951 and in 1996 he had the springs replaced and new sights fitted because of wear and its still working fine now.
My great grandfather snabbed one of these during WWII and my family still has it along with his other service stuff. It certainly packs a punch!
WHAT AN AWESOME OPENING CHOICE, JOHNNY!!!!
To this day, I can't hear the song "In the Rain" without picturing Spike calmly walking into that church shootout with Vicious' crew to rescue Faye!
One of the best scenes in one of the best series ever made. Even tho spike isn't holding a Hi-Power himself I still had to use it =)
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq...😊
Oh, great, I hear that female choir again!
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq *Head-thump* Yeah, he was a Jericho man, wasn't he? Great Goo bless the Japanese and their relentless fanboy-level attention to detail!
Yeah it really is and don't see it done like that anymore.
I love how you use anime as an example and I’d love to see more examples in the future
So should of been named the Browning Hi-Capacity
Except Browning HATED the magazine capacity! That was all Saive, he had the mag working before the pistol, showed it to Browning and Browning was not impressed. Thankfully Saive prevailed after Browning's death, though he had to almost completely redesign the handgun.
@@robertharper3754 it was strange how most of the early automatics had such small mags- as thats ther major advantage over revolvers .So kudos to Salve -for sticking to his guns
0:50 why does that shell have a tapering to it? It doesn’t look like the stuff you get from the crimped shell from a blank
Great video johhny!
Love the Hi-Power, Great gun to shoot in real life and in video games.
Hi John! You forgot the Nepal shoot-out scene in "Raiders of the lost ark".
I know. Rookie mistake on my part 😑
I first learned about this pistol because of Beverly Hills Cop. I’ve been wanting one ever since
Special Forces from WWII that liked the Browning Hi-Power included the SAS, SOE, British Commandos, and a few other organizations too! Personally it’s criminally underrepresented in WWII media, especially amongst those forces.
German forces also copied the HP in summer 1940 when they took over the FN plant after capturing Belgium
@@Railhog2102that they did. The fallschirmjägers liked them, the SS, and a few other units if I’m not mistaken
@officercat7907 Correct although it's role in WWII is overlooked
This was great, thanks. Keep up the good work!
Seconded
The original "Wonder Nine", even Lara Croft used 2 nickel plated Hi-Power guns in the first 3 Tomb Raider games.
My first handgun I bought at 21 last year. I got the SA-35 and its been a gorgeous piece I've owned. Hi Power is what comes to my mind since 5 whenever I hear or think: "9mm Pistol"
Props for adding the Gunslinger Girl OVA. I've heard the adaptation wasn't too good but the manga is totally underrated.
Was a bit surprised to learn that it's a shonen. It was published in Dengeki Daioh, a shonen magazine.
The first season is incredible. The second not so much. Blame whichever bastard thought switching from Madhouse to Artland was a good idea.
@@Joshua_N-Ashounen is just a demographic. Anything can be shounen if you aim it that way.
I've never had a pistol feel more, how shall I say it? right and comfortable in my hand than a Browning Hi-Power. My dream gun.
With 13 rounds it’s still got an impressive magazine capacity
Not really, you can get a smaller lighter Glock 19 that still has 15. Nowadays there are 15 round Hi-Power mags, but with the same technology, other guns like the Beretta 92 now can have 17 rounds. Then you have the Sig P320 with 21 rounds of 9mm in slightly extended mags.
@@justalurker3489, the amount of rounds available in a magazine does not make a gun better of worse, what matters is your marksmanship, if you are a shit shot, or use the American method then get a gun that supports a larger magazine capacity.
I was in the ADF and used to train all of the newcomers to the Battalion to our standard of Efficiency, Safety and Accuracy on all small arms, this included the Hi-Power and to qualify on the weapon, after instruction and practice, they had to be able to score at least 10 hits out of each 13 shots at 25 metres on a 40cm diameter target with 6 magazines every 6 months.
The Hi-Power has an excellent magazine capacity, 13 is unlucky for anyone on the wrong end of this weapon, especially in the hands of someone that I had trained.
@@gregedwards1087If marksmanship is everything. Why don't you stick to flintlock, lol.
@@copter2000, and here is someone that has to have a 32 round mag in their Glock to even have a chance at hitting anything, even if the target is in the same telephone booth as they are. BTW, marksmanship is not everything but it is a very large part of the process, no good giving anyone a weapon if they don't know how to hit the target, we used to send those ones off to HQ to teach them to type. You must be a very good typist, I am right copter, aren't I.
@gregedwards1087 Yeah magazine capacity absolutely matters, that's WHY the Hi-power was created. If you can accurately and effectively use a Hi-Power with 13 rounds, then you will be even more effective with more rounds. Yeah 13 rounds is still sufficient for most purposes, but sufficient doesn't mean that more isn't more effective.
John Browning really went for 120+ year lasting designs.
Bo Dietl as a police officer held a nice silver chrome, adjustable rear sight Browning Hi Power on Ray Liotta's head in 'Goodfellas'
And 'Switch' had another nice chrome, adjustable rear sight Hi Power in the first Matrix movie!
Love these timeless fine pistols!
Picked up a 1958 civilian import about a year ago. It’s become my daily carry and I can’t imagine using a different handgun
First moment - wait Spike Spigel uses IMI Jericho 941 in one episode he goes for Ruger P89! Then I saw it - the syndicate guy holding Fay has Browning GP. More than happy thay You kept original soundtrack in this piece. A similar gun of an era is VIS wz35 with designs elemnts to pass Browning patents ;) BTW in slomo with Brat one can see blank carriages in place of live brass.
Fun fact: spike in the beginning is using a Jericho which was the gun designed by Isreal to replace their hi powers, has most of the ergonomics
browning high p my beloved
Hammer bite is real. And painful.
I had it issued to me in the UK until we briefly adopted the Sig Sauer which was an UOR, before we then went to using the Glock.
Strange, todays ain't none of the two Brownings has a birthday, yet it is the second video about B-HP I got today.
I didn't even 'knew' that this gun existed.
Always wanted one of these, the Browning nickels are my fav. The current Inglis brand is made in Turkey.
I'm a sucker for Browning guns, and I've always wondered why it is called the Hi-Power. Thanks for the vid!
Never owned or shot one, but this is my absolute favorite military pistol.
Nice pick, using the superlative English dub for Cowboy Bebop... ah, says something when an old gun still works on a space setting with terraformed planets.
5:32: I assume this is il Teatrino? Doesn't look like the somber Madhouse art.
It is.
Which pistol is better the Browning hi-Power or M1911 cult do you think.
Looking forward to your coverage of the Browning M2.
Oh yeah that is really another big one that should have it's video and you mean the machine gun along with it's rival the Soviet DSHK which you can tell Johnny about as well.
@@kellychuang8373 Now that would be a fantastic idea, Forgotten weapons recently did the Russian Kord.
You know what he should do all three individually then do a video no one has done, and compare all three in one video.
What do you think?
@@Predator42ID That really is something and anyway really tell it to JJ for added effect.
I'm in the USCG, and in 2018 I sailed with the Australian Navy. I was surprised to see they still had HI Powers in their armory on the ship I was on. It's amazing how such an old design is still kicking strong today.
No mention of Raymond Reddington? He even holds it in the old school cup and saucer grip.
A really interesting and elegant weapon. Such cartridge capacity was a great benefit
Man, I love my Hi Power. Got a used one back in 2017 for like $450 or something like that because the sporting goods store that sold it was going out of business. I heard they marked down all the used guns so I went to that store for the first (and last) time of my life. Great deal on a solid pistol. The side of the rear sight has a bit of a dent in it, but since it isn't the part of the sight you actually 'use' its more of a cosmetic thing. I don't shoot it as often now since I got my USP .45, but I still love it.
0:30 the browning hi power design is similar to the American 1911 but it has little differences to it
You do realize that's because the same man designed both handguns.....right?
@@ISAFSoldieryes👍
Another famous user of the Hi-Power was James Spader's character, Raymond Reddington from The Blacklist
Cowboy Bebop?
ah, i see you're a man of culture as well.
Bang
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq:'(
Been a while but great topic on a great firearm. Keep up the good work johnny :)
Thank ya sir!
Hear,hear
We used it up until the late 90's and some oldtimers had one up until the end of the 2000's. It is a good weapon but i liked the size of the new weapon (Glock 17) better but i miss the safety. Being an instructor became a lot more dangerous around new recruits.
I got nothing, Johnny. Love that weapon. Fantastic shot, a little dirty, but sweet action and accurate. Thanks for the episode, man. Take care, keep safe.
A lil support goes a long way! Thank you sir!
Are there any recommended videos out there as to why the US military never adopted this pistol or why the M9 was chosen and what it competed against
Ah....Mrs C,s side arm....as well as a Sterling sub machine gun to protect her patients, back in the BAOR..British Army of the Rhine....nice one sir....E...😊😊
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My first experience with the Browning Hi Power was unpleasant. It was the standard side arms of my country's armed forces which was in inventory since the 1970s and are old and poorly kept. That being said when I tapped the magazine to set the cartridges, magazine lips broke off sending cartridges on the ground. Then the recoil spring broke causing a slide failure.
I shot my cz75 with a friend who has a hi power, side by side you can see the similarities. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
You left out Amanda Tapping as Helen Magnes in Sanctuary. Her main carry pistol was a HP
If you remove the mag safety it improves the trigger pull
My favorite pistol next to the 1911
At West Point Museum they recently put in a trophy from WWII. It's a Browning automatic pistol that was captured from a German sniper which was given to their wounded commander who was shot by the sniper.
The Browning Hi- Power is really underrated. The first time I ever saw a Browning Hi-Power was in the original Resident Evil 2, and it was both Claire Redfield and Ada Wong's starting handgun in that game.
Oh Johnny.. love the pun at the end…
I was wondering why they did not put this gun in BFV but then I remembered it has 13 round capacity.
Got a girsan mcp35 pi ops in silver cerakote. Compact, rail underneath and an optics mount. Gotta go back and take it off consignment.
I wonder if you could do a video on the M1911 pistol?
I need to! I did one on "allied side-arms" where it's included. But I actually left out the hi-power so I was overdue for this one.
a certain courier was shot by this pistol
Ain't that a kick in the head
Ah i used the DA (double action) version in finnish army. I remember it was pretty accurate or i was just good at shooting.
Thanks for your video. Have been watching you for a long time and you never disappoint 😁 keep up the good work!
Have a great weekend 😉
Absolutely love this 'un. Its kind of amazing just how ahead of the time it was. Until the Wonder 9 era, you couldn't really get a higher capacity semi-automatic without using completely obscene magazines that basically turned your gun into a carbine.
Can you do a video about the Cz 82 pls?
While a gun is a gun- any bullet hurts like a bitch, no matter where it came from- the Hi-Power really has that "really? You brought THAT?" Reputation and rightfully so.
Nice, starting off the video with Cowboy Bebop!
0:36
Another film where Ray Liotta has a Hi-Power pointed at him, the other being Goodfellas, where he is more fortunate as "...if they had been Wiseguys, I wouldn't have heard a thing. I would've been dead."
2:43
It is more of the hammer needing to be cocked first (like on a single action revolver, such as the SAA), either by itself or by operating the slide.
As owner of a mauser clone high power
Hi power is a nice gun
I also have the Mauser 80sa HP My go to pistol btw there was only 5000 made with the Mauser logo in 9mm
Pretty funny at the end with the airbag inflating ever so slowly. Anyone who had been in a real car accident knows it's a fraction of a second with a 12 gauge round. Sparks and powered burns, very disorienting
Wonderfully used in Fallout New Vegas as the "9mm pistol"
I also saw it used in “Ashes to Ashes”.
I 've been hoping you would make a vid of the Hi Power👍 I have a German Occupation Hi Power (De act as I'm in the UK) They were mostly issued to Fallschirmjager and Waffen SS, though generally more poorly finished than the Inglese Canadian manufacture.
After the browning Hi-power. The next logical gun to look at is the pop culture history of Hi-point.