Yes, this really happened. Sorta. The guy I was buying the C9 from brought it out to the ranch one day – this was when I decided I wanted it. It was working fine. We had a little after-shoot cleaning get together at our place, and he decided to “give it a real cleaning” by taking it all the way down.
For such a cheap pistol, it sure has a ton of moving parts inside. Seriously. Mel’s Hi-Power breaks down into like 5 pieces for cleaning. The C9 looks like the inside of a watch. And if you punch out the takedown pin, then remove the grips (taking the grip apart to clean it? What is this, a fucking revolver?) , you have to be VERY careful not to nudge the C9 wrong, or springs and pieces and parts go flying all over the fucking place. This may be why the company does not recommend doing such a thing.
When we tried to put it back together… yeah. Leftover pieces, wouldn’t fit together right. I ended up purchasing the gun from him in a Ziploc baggie. Later, I looked it up on youtube and got the pieces to fit – I think. Took the gun to the range, and it behaved horribly. Firing pin wouldn’t reset.
That’s when I decided to call Hi-Point.
I will say this outright: Hi-Point does not fuck around on their warranty. Ten days later, my C9 was returned to me. They replaced EVERYTHING except the frame and the barrel. The slide, the sights, the firing pin, everything. I took it to the range several days later, and it ran like a champ. And continued to do so… right up until I ran some homemade hot loads through it, months later. Rapid-fire, and suddenly, it wouldn’t feed. I’d bent the firing pin to the point that it stuck in the forward position. Thankfully, they’d already sent me an extra during the repair (as well as an extra mag “for my trouble”), so it’s still running strong.
Mel will probably slap me, but I’m going to keep up the sexist pig videos. Because I can.
You’ve hit on why I have never taken apart my wife’s Hi-Point Comp-9. I saw what was needed to take it apart and determined that I am not dealing with that. If it ever stops functioning properly, I’ll just send it to Hi-Point.
And, I agree on their warranty service. I bought a Hi-Point Carbine for $80 that would not function at all and it had a broken front sight. I sent it to them and they completely rebuilt it, no questions asked.
You’re cracking me up!
Sooner or later, every shooter gets a firearm on their bench that is more like an explosive jenga puzzle than a gun. For me it was a Calico-9mm. The helical magazine came apart like a “snake-in-a-can” prank. Springs and pins went pinging off the table into the shag carpeting and needed a retrieval magnet to find them again.
That incident taught me the value of a raised border on my bench and tacky rubber pads for break downs.
See, the Hi-Point firing pin has two springs – one inside the other – that want to fly across the room both when taking it apart and putting it back together.
This is, BTW, why I like Soviet weapons a lot. Most of them can be taken apart with the edge of a broken vodka bottle, and any missing springs can be replaced with parts stripped from a burned truck engine.
D’ya prefer Tula or Izzy?
[This post brought to you courtesy of The Spear That Shoots.]
Honestly don’t have a pref. I’ve fired both. I like my Tula, but I also like our roommate’s Izevsk.
For that matter, you gotta love a mainspring that splits into 2 fingers and does 2 different things, plus the bottom of the mainspring is the mag catch.
The first time I saw this demotivator, I dashed downstairs to the gun locker, with a bottle of root beer. Yes, it works.
See, this is why I like the M-1911 and the HP-35. You may need three hands to get the firing pin back in (especially on the Series 80, with that drop safety plug and spring) but the actual number of parts is small and their orientation simple.
This is also why I will only field strip some guns, such as the H&K P7.
Dear Sexist Pig,
As a self-nomininated humorless lesbian feminist representative, maybe can we discuss these videos? First of all, we get it. Big noises, explosions, chicks in bikinis, jiggly bits, it’s not exactly high art, but yeah, stimulating dumb fun. There’s even an argument to be made over “chicks doing dude things” that’s hot, too (and it lasts right up until we get better than you at video games, but one step at a time).
But can we maybe agree to a compromise here? The humorless lesbian feminist commune will agree to hold low-cost, environmentally friendly, racially neutral, meat and artificial scent free shooting lessons for your bikini models if you can quit asking those girls to shoot in heels. Especially with the weapons with heavy recoil. Jesus. YOU shoot in 4-inch pumps some time and then tell me about chick lean, ok?
Sincerely,
Pat
I’m glad you made this request of me, as I am not the person who shot the videos, not the copyright holder, and I don’t know who is. These videos are culled from Youtube.com – so as you can see, yelling at me makes perfect sense.
If you have any further complaints, please email them to your cat.
Hey, if I can represent all brittle feminists, you can represent all horny gun dudes. IT MAKES PERFECT INTERNET SENSE.
Though it’s apparently completely impossible for me to properly thread comments.
Oh, alright.
AHEM:
Tittys n beer lol u mad dyke
heelz maek women shote betar
girls should learn onley 2 skils: shotting n makin sanwichis
[edit] DISCLAIMER: This is meant for parodic purposes only. J. Grant does not wish to be mistaken as a true representation of this strawman, as there is a damn good chance his wife would kick the crap out of him.
OPPRESSION REPRESSION SEXISM RAWR RAWR RAWR oh screw it. Well played, sir. Well played.
Sexist? Grant hasn’t even covered what happens at the SHOT show in Vegas 🙂
Stupid man make mistake and get gun all over place. Woman in bikini hit target and blow something up. That not sexist.
Why me sound like 1911 fan?
Oh fer chrissake. What is this, friggin Playboy? Lookit the chick’s ass, uh hurr hurr.
I’d pay attention to the slap of Mel.
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Well??? Where’s the half-naked, hot-lookin MEN? Hmmmmmmmmmm?
Btw this strip cracked me up.
It might surprise you to know that sexist-pig stuff doesn’t make you look nearly as witty as you might imagine.
Sure would be nice if we had a delete button for our own comments..
in any case, I hereby hereby apologize for previous negativity.
I think the comic is first rate. This strip especially.