Hi-Points deserve their own thread!

[costanza187]

I have been seeing them mentioned in a lot of other threads, let's talk about Hi-Points.

Discuss amongst yourselves...

[Ignition]

I love my 995 carbine. so far hasnt failed me and pretty good accuracy with the ghost ring sights

[LonghornGlock]

Hi-point, cheap, cheaply made, ugly, horrible trigger, heavy enough to substitute as a hammer, and probably the best value for the money in firearms today. Mine would go bang every time I pulled the trigger and accuracy isn't terrible and probably the best customer service in the industry. No questions asked Lifetime warranty, can't beat that for less than a hundred bucks.

[costanza187]

OK, coming out of the closet here... I DO own a Hi-Point 9mm, I have never used it. I picked it up for pretty cheap, it is brand new.

I got it before I had even visited places like Glock talk, then I started coming here, and people were seriously ripping on them. So it has been sitting there unused for a long time. I thought about trading it in, or trying to, don't know what I could get out of it on a trade-in... I am thinking next to nothing. If they are decent, I'll probably just keep it.

When, I say when, I get my CCW (I am moving into a free country soon), I have a Bersa Thunder for that. Probably would not use the Hi-Point as a carry weapon, but might be fun just to have it around.

[cowboywannabe]

what i dont get is..............with makarovs being of superior quality and design, and at the same price as the high-points.....why would anyone buy a high-point?

[LonghornGlock]

I'll grant you the makarov firearm is superior quality. Yet the round it fires ain't. Especially compared to the .40 and .45 versions. And if it by chance does brake where are you going to get it fixed for free. Most Hipoints are still cheaper than the Maks,cheapest maks I've seen are around $130. Still If someone doesn't like their Mak I'll gladly take it off their hands.;f

[Blast]

I have the carbine. Very accurate. Definately good for the money.

[epsylum]

No matter what, a Hi-Point is better than no gun at all.

That being said. I'll probably never own one. They just WAY to ugly.

I'll take a CZ-52 for about the same money instead. It my also be VERY ugly but, at least the CZ has history.

[Pops 1]

My son owns a 9mm carbine, has buddy a 45 pistol, no problems, and they never clean there guns after hundreds of rounds. Pops

[JMounce]

I have a 9mm. I love it...sometimes. Its kind of like a car or a girlfriend.... Some days I get up and I say, "I hate you car, you give me so much problems" other times I say, "I love you. I love the way you look and drive and get me places" Some times I think to my self "why are you with her, she so boring" other times I think "she is so hot how could I ever pass her up"

Same thing with a gun.

Take a dremel to it like you would a glock. Then it becomes yours. You bond with it in the process. Take all the rattling mag safty out and you have a plastic, Stanley Staple gun guts pistol that shoots. Making 50 yard shots is another but it shoots.

I feel very safe with it sleeping under my mattress with me. Someone comes Im gonna get the shotgun first, but its still there.

Im actually going to shoot IDPA next month with it. Just to see if I can.

[Pops 1]

Please let me know how you make out shooting the High Point. Pops

[amd65]

I also own a 9mm carbine-no failures of any kind after about 1000 rounds. When all the other guns are locked in the gun safe, that hi-point is in the closet with a trigger lock and three mags loaded with +p 124gr hp's. It has a red dot on it and I can shoot groups about the size of a bottle cap with it at 50 yards.
The only reason I would sell it would be to get the new 40 s&w version.

[Apex]

I would like to get a Hi-Point but I haven't seen them for a reasonable price around town. The only pawn shop I have found with them new was charging $220 for the 9mm, .40 and .45.

That seems to be way out of line with what people are saying they have been paying.

I would love to be able to pick up a .45 and the 9mm carbine, but just tough to find in town.

[keltic]

i bought a piece of garbge hi point 9mm with the comp on it and the pin broke on the second clip. i would rather have a stick

[PAKrazee]

My Hipoint 9mm carbine with 4x32 scope has about 1000 rounds thru it without a failuee, and oh yeah, it shoots holes inside of holes. I don't know about the handguns, but the carbines are FUN to shoot!

[wilki]

I had something shocking happen with a Hi-Point 9mm last year. A customer brings one in to the gunshop that I work at. He says it won't fire. He had purchased it from a guy at work for next to nothing. I offer to send it back to the factory for repair. When I get ready to ship the pistol out I cant find the address for Hi-Point in our company software or the ups software. It seems that we had never sent one back before. Most people probley toss them in the river instead of fixing them so I grab the address of a new one's manual and ship it out. One Week later the pistol is back and I open the box and they sent a extra mags with a note asking us to give to the customer for his trouble. I have never seen any other company do that.

I still wouldn't own one

Tom W.

[glock19/9mm]

the high point serves a purpose with people.it makes a good door stop.also can use it to level up your safe with your good guns in it.also you can convert it into a butane lighter if it keeps lighting.

[dave20101]

Tom Deeb and co. actually seem to give a damn about making something that works for people on a tight budget. I respect that. I hope the anti-affordable gun crowd doesn't sue them out of business.

[Wingnut357]

Originally posted by epsylum
No matter what, a Hi-Point is better than no gun at all.

That being said. I'll probably never own one. They just WAY to ugly.

I'll take a CZ-52 for about the same money instead. It my also be VERY ugly but, at least the CZ has history.

CZ ugly isn't High Point ugly.

The CZ52 has that Warsaw Pact charm.

[CajunBass]

I don't have a Hi-Point, but I'm seriously thinking of getting one just see if they are as bad or good as people say they are. Actually I've never even seen one, just pictures of them.

[spober]

i want one to leave in my sock drawer or under the mattress so if the ham burgler breaks in they will at least find one of my guns unlocked.empty of course,i wouldnt want him to lay in wait to shoot me for leaving him a hi point!

[MrGlock21]

Originally posted by epsylum
No matter what, a Hi-Point is better than no gun at all.

That being said. I'll probably never own one. They just WAY to ugly.

I'll take a CZ-52 for about the same money instead. It my also be VERY ugly but, at least the CZ has history.

You have a point. Ugly but history.

It's like drinking cheap cheap beer, yes sometimes cheap beer is better than no beer...well, I don't know.

[CajunBass]

Originally posted by CajunBass
I don't have a Hi-Point, but I'm seriously thinking of getting one just see if they are as bad or good as people say they are. Actually I've never even seen one, just pictures of them.

Well I did get one. A C-9, 9mm. I've got 400? 450 rounds through it with one malfunction. Other than that one, it's gone bang when I pull the trigger, the empty brass goes flying out of the gun, and the next round loads. It hasn't broken, it hasn't fired itself. It hasn't eaten everything in the fridge, or let the air out of my neighbors tires. It shoots pretty well too. I'm no great pistol shot, but I can hit the target with it. I haven't really cleaned it, just squirt some Break Free down the barrel, then run a patch down it. A couple drops of Break Free on the slide/frame and figure that's good enough.

Not a bad buy for the money I'd say.

[SouthTexasrep]

Anyone know where to get Hi-Points online? Are they wortht he money?

[carllock]

What I can't understand is why Hi-Point is not in every gun magazine as the best gun value on the market....I have shot Glock, Sig, HK, Tarus and dollar for dollar the Hi-Point is the best value on the market by a long shot. Hi-Point is like a good American car, gets you where you need to go and a good dollar value. Yeah it is not a Benz but it does what you need it to plus a "lifetime" warranty. I am making a mission of buying every Hi-Point they make from the .380 to the 40 cal carbine....Long live Hi-Point.

[SouthTexasrep]

I was going to get a Glock 10mm, but after doing some research and thought, instead im going to buy a Hi-Point 9mm carbine and the 9mm pistol. After I buy those I'm going for the .40 and .40 Carbine. Seems like an excellent gun and very affordable.

[MrGlock21]

Originally posted by carllock
What I can't understand is why Hi-Point is not in every gun magazine as the best gun value on the market....

Just send the editor of a gun magazine a little gift or invite him/his family on a trip to Mauritius and you will have your article ;)

[Officerdoofy]

Does anyone know how to disassemble a Hi-point pistol?

[CajunBass]

You didn't specify which model, but this guy has a very detailed piece on his website about stripping and cleaning the C-9, 9mm

Hi-Point Info (http://home.columbus.rr.com/dzimmerm/guns.html)

Hope it helps.

[Officerdoofy]

Thanks a lot CB!! I have been trying to figure that out for years. LOL

[carllock]

I was told by a gunshop to not take a pistol apart. I do very detailed cleanings with tons of pads and q-tips and quality Hoppes solution and good "dry" lubes. what I plan on doing is once per year (or two years) to send my pistol to Hi-Point/MKS for strip cleanings. Hi-Points are so inexpensive you can have two, three, four, so when you take one "offline" to the factory you have backups. The gunshop suggestion came because the punch pins do not like to be taken apart often.

[CajunBass]

That's actually what I do Carlock. I've never stipped mine down and probably never will. Q-tips, a patch and some solvent, and it's back and ready to go.

[Ignition]

just to remind anyone.... if your highpoint weapon or even magazine, breaks in any way there is a lifetime warranty NO QUESTIONS ASKED. no matter who owns it


so if you have problems send it in to be fixed

[Rally Vincent]

Hmmp! HighPoints? I seem to remember a pistol that used the same design....the Stallard 9mm.

As a matter of fact the scar on my cheek is from a Stallard 9mm exploding in my hands on a range about 3 years ago, and from my understanding the HighPoint design has little improvement over the original's floppy slapped together franken-pistol concept.

[dave20101]

Well it is a SNS forum, so zinc hand grenades would fit in the category. :) Generally speaking 9mm or higher + all zinc alloy + simple blowback operation = a bad idea.

Their new designs have polymer frames though, fwiw. Personally, I wouldn't get anything bigger than a 380 ACP in a simple blowback pistol design.