The slide moves backward from the blowback pressure of the cartridge, and is returned forward by a return spring. The slide weighs a little more than a pound and when closed, simply sits against the back of the cartridge when it goes off. Instead of mechanically locking like a 1911, a Hi Point relies on the mass of the slide to keep the gun closed during firing. A 1911 does a great job at keeping the grit out of those lugs in the first place and also giving it a place to go if it does get in there, but get enough grit into the lugs and the barrel won’t go into battery position and the gun won’t fire. A 1911-style pistol has a link that toggles the barrel up and down, and at the top of the barrel are lugs that have to “lock up” with matching recesses cut inside the top of the slide. For example, they’re blowback-operated, so there is no “lock up” to get compromised by a glob of mud. A Hi Point is elegant in its design simplicity. So how can a manufacturer make a gun in the United States for such a low price? Simple design, easy manufacture, and inexpensive materials are why. That seems like a fairly good trade-off for the peace of mind that comes with having a gun when you’re alone in the middle of nowhere with no cell service. If I roll my kayak and can’t recover the gun from the bottom of the river, I’m only out what amounts to the cost of gasoline and food for that kayak trip. If what I put my Hi Point C9 through is any indication, then it’s accurate to say that despite its lowly appearance and equally low price, a Hi Point is every bit as reliable and tough as a more expensive handgun.īecause of its reliability and low price, my C9 has earned a place in my kayak.
When the works are really gummed up, it sometimes takes a smart rap on the back of the slide to close it all the way into battery. It functions when packed with fine powder, gritty mud or sticky flour paste with only the occasional failure to extract when grit on a fired cartridge makes a mechanical lock with the chamber walls. Storage in a car’s glove box can also subject a gun to vibrations that can work things loose, so I placed this Hi Point in a wooden box on the hood of a lawnmower for a day of cutting grass-nothing rattled loose. If stored in a tackle box or glove compartment, it’s quite possible for something to find its way into the barrel, so I’ve fired this Hi Point remotely with a barrel obstruction to see if the barrel would bulge or burst-it did not. It didn’t the slide is fine and the frame is undamaged. I even spun out on it to see if the slide would separate from the frame. It’s less likely that you would drive over your gun, but I placed this one on soft ground and drove over several times with a large pick up truck to see if the slide would bend or the polymer frame would crack. The slide has several dings now, but didn’t break. For example, sometimes a gun gets dropped, so I dropped it repeatedly on a solid rock surface to see if the zinc-alloy slide would break.
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The abuse involved a series of scenarios that replicate possible real-world circumstances. I bought it about a year ago for an abuse test that it passed probably better than many higher-priced handguns would. The C9 you see here has had the ever lovin’ snot beaten out of it. I don’t know why, but more often than not it seems negative comments about Hi Points are based on perception, and not necessarily actual experience. I bring this up because almost 100 percent of the time the former group has never actually shot a Hi Point, while the later group either has shot one or owns one. Add to that the fact that they’re American-made and can take a heck of a lot of abuse and still work, and there’s no reason not to appreciate a Hi Point except for the fact that many people think they’re heavy and ugly.ĭo much searching on the Internet, and you’ll generally find two types of people who comment about Hi Points: folks who think their cheap pieces of crap and wouldn’t own one and folks who say they always work when you pull the trigger.
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Full retail on a Hi Point C9 is $179 and I see them listed on GunsAmerica “new in box” for as little as $145. I know it might surprise some people to read that in addition to higher end guns, I have lower end ones, too, but I am a fan of Hi Points because they are one of the best values in the gun market. My gun safe contains Kimbers and Colts, Baker shotguns and custom rifles-and a Hi Point C9 9mm semiautomatic pistol.
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