Preban Browning hi power: worth it?

[Reptile]

I have a line on one from out of state.

Like new.

Is this worth a lot in Massachusetts.

I might want to flip it some day.

Pre 98.

"One Browning Hi-Power in box with all papers. This gun has Cylinder and Side parts gunsmith installed: Wide combat trigger, sear, portside safety and commander hammer. This
means no mag safety and all factory parts are included as well. I also comes with Brownells Micarta thin grips (not installed). It has two ten round mags and four thirteen rounders--all purchased

 

[drgrant]

Preban? lol

 

[Reptile]

Anything productive to add?

I see these on GB but not much demand.

Also one on NES not seeing much interest.

 

[warwickben]

Anything productive to add?

I see these on GB but not much demand.

Also one on NES not seeing much interest.

Most people who buy these go for war marked ones .
I want one for my collection. Not sure what the one on Nes is .
But I've been trying to steal colddayinhell's nazi marked one since I shot it a year of two ago . You ether like these guns or you don't . I don't like shooting it. It big , heavy metal double stack just like a m9. Kinda pointless when you got polymer guns that can do the same role. You go after these guns for different reasons . I would like to get one cause I'm a jmb fan boy .
Most want to go after the nazi marked or other captured marked ones.
There over shadowed by the 1911 .

 

[mac1911]

Only thing that might be worth something is the 13 round MAGS in mass if they are preban 1994 ban that is?

 

[Varmint]

My brother has one, working the slide is like pumping iron. They're cool historically but don't think I'd want to shoot one.

 

[CrackPot]

I bought a 1962 model on my C&R. love the gun, but not worth any more in MA than anywhere else. Buy it if you like it, not because you think it will be worth something in Kommiechusetts

 

[Reptile]

Thanks everybody.

I decided not to get it.

 

[Navy Moose]

The biggest thing I didn't like about mine, was the trigger. I've fired several of late, and none had a reset worthy of the name. YMMV

 

[atilla]

I decided not to get it.

weak.

BHP FTMFW.

 

[mark056]

I love the Browning Hi Power, used to collect them. Along with the S&W M39, my favorite 9mm. Fits my hand like a glove. Yeah, there are better and newer designs, but they are still in service today as we speak in every conflict that is currently going on in the globe. Not as durable with regard to round count as was once thought, but certainly reliable. The Mk III addressed durability issues. Triggers have always been problematic but no worse than some of the HK wundernines that have done down the pike. I have over 6K rounds in one of my MK IIIs and not one, not one malfunction or failure to feed. Plenty of pre-ban mags if that is an issue.

There are plenty of them out there and personally I would not go after a so-called premium one. You can get a nice one here in Mass and send it to Novak's or C&S or Carl Sokol and get a really nice custom piece rivaling a custom 1911. For those of you of the polymer, striker fired generation I can see where you might want your Glocks or MPs or whatever, but you will never be under-armed or outgunned (from a pistolero perspective) if you're packing a Browning Hi Power, the only handgun made and issued by both sides during WWII, and still in service today.