How a Browning Hi-Power works

Browning Hi-Power is the latest creation of genius gunsmith John Moses Browning. The pistol was created under the technical assignment of the French army, but was not adopted for service in France. During the creation of Hi-Power, all patents for the successful M1911 model were sold by Browning, so he had to invent almost from scratch. The number of modifications released from that time to this day is very large, in this video we will look at one of them. Standard Hi-Powers are based on a single-action design. Unlike modern double-action semi-automatic pistols, the Hi-Power's trigger is not connected to the hammer. The Hi-Power, like many other Browning designs, operates on the short-recoil principle, where the barrel and slide initially recoil together until the barrel is unlocked from the slide by a cam arrangement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownin... John Browning was known as a dedicated and tireless innovator and experimenter who sought breakthrough consumer-oriented features and performance and reliability improvements in small arms designs. He did not retire in his later years but dedicated his entire adult life – literally to his last day – to these pursuits. On November 26, 1926, while working at the bench on a self-loading pistol design for Fabrique Nationale, he died of heart failure in the design shop of his son Val A. Browning. Even the 9 mm semi-automatic pistol he was working on when he died had great design merit and was eventually completed in 1935 by Belgian designer Dieudonne Saive. Released as the Fabrique Nationale GP35, it was more popularly known as the successful Browning Hi-Power pistol, a favorite of sportsmen and gun collectors as well as many military and law enforcement agencies around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Br... To create this video, I used the World of Guns: Gun Disassembly program: http://store.steampowered.com/app/262... Timecode: 00:00 - Disclaimer and introduction about the Hi-Power 00:35 - Information about magazine 01:10 - Mainspring and sear spring 01:22 - The main part of the video 03:22 - Manual and slide safety 03:44 - Magazine safety 03:56 - Slide stop and sights 04:25 - John Browning's last masterpiece 05:24 - About software and Thank you for watching #SimpleMechanics #Bronwing #Hi-Power