Help with a new Browning HP 9mm

[Retired Squid]

Local shop has a 2 tone made in Canada 9mm with the dark gray/black lower and shinny steel(?) upper with some kind of screw thing on the left side that you turn to select a letter. I don't remember what the letters were but it was at the top one. It is ambo safety and is used but unfired NIB with papers and with the yellow grease on slide and barrel still. I did talk to owner when he traded it back in to the shop, said he decided he wanted a 40 cal instead of the small 9 mm and bought a Walther P99 IIRC and now the shop has a $459 tag on the Browning.

Can anyone give me some info on the gun and comment on asking price?

[Jim Watson]

Does it look like the one shown here?
http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg109-e.htm

Read about it there. A google on Browning BDM will turn up lots more.
It is the BDM, it is discontinued, it has NO interchangeability with the BHP, not even magazines. One of our club members likes them and has worn out three. He said the first one went 100,000 rounds, the other two lasted only 10,000 each before giving trouble.

[Retired Squid]

Yes that's the gun. I really like the looks, but I am not a fan of the 9mm, but am a 10mm guy. I reload for 10mm and always thought if I buy another automatic other then a 10mm it would be a 40 cal for reloading reasons.

However if the price is right and it is a solid performer I might go for the gun. I just was not sure if the asking price was hi or low or somewhere in between.

Thanks for the info and the link. It helped me out a lot.

[outerlimit]

The Browning BDM is a gun that was ahead of its time. An extremely slim hi-capacity polymer framed 9mm. Known for being reliable, combat accurate, able to fire hot ammo and easy to carry.

Be careful about using the safety as a slide release, they WILL break within a few uses if you do as the manual says. I would use the pull back and sling-shot method instead.

I speak from my own and others personal experience with the BDM.

[rgregoryb]

Outer limit

I have seen this advice posted elsewhere about the safety, I use the slide release to chamber the first round, not the safety, but you are advising the slingshot method. If you are careful not to use the safety and use the slide release won't that be OK?

I paid 400.00 for a LNIB BDM with 2 hicaps about a month ago to keep my 6 high powers company

The frame of a BDM is steel , not polymer

[Retired Squid]

I got back to the shop too late and they had sold the gun. Owner let it go for $400 and tax. :faint:

[rgregoryb]

There are several nice ones on gunbroker, they are nice but not a high power...get a high power first. Hicap mags for the BDM are waaaay expensive and parts are not easily located.

I collect Brownings so I had to have one

[outerlimit]

Outer limit

I have seen this advice posted elsewhere about the safety, I use the slide release to chamber the first round, not the safety, but you are advising the slingshot method. If you are careful not to use the safety and use the slide release won't that be OK?

I really don't know, sorry. It's been 6 years since I owned one.

I like to use the slingshot method anyways because it saves wear on the slide notch and catch. I only use the slide release on any gun if I'm in a hurry.