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Originally Posted by k9870
They do fit the hand very well, I got to say. And they usually cost 800 or so around me new, never see used ones. Thats a gun without night sights or anything. The one i shot had a disconnect and had a 9 pound sa trigger. Also I do not like magazine disconnects on any gun out there. Personal preference. I see some sweet hi powers people have worked on but the cost is too high imo, just not my cup of tea, they are popular though and if you dig the gun rock on.
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Customizing anything in a quality way or professionally is going to make any gun cost a boat load of money. And just as well I know you want a 627 which is an 800 dollar revolver in a market full of ~400 dollar guns which are plenty adequate, and I know you love Springfields which are, aside from their most budget guns, at a higher price point point than other 1911s as well as a Hi-Power, while not offering much more outside of a standard 1911 which enhance the gun more that its cheaper counterparts.
As far as functional accessories go, a Springfield Loaded has bigger sights (also non night sights) an ambi safety, a 3 hole trigger, and perhaps a beveled mag well. A current Mark III will have an ambi safety, comparable sights, as well as a finish superior to parkerizing and in some ways stainless steel (epoxy coating), but it will lose out on a better stock trigger and mag well. I don't know how much beveling a mag well would cost (I imagine not much, but if you're going to be a true trigger snob, all triggers need work, and comparing anything to a 1911 trigger is unfair really.
Not to mention the Hi-Power is A: in the wondernine category and not the 1911 category with these features further justifying its price, and B: a single action wondernine, a pretty exclusive category which appeals to those in favor of the 1911 battery of arms (quite a few people I'd say), so when you factor that in (as well as the price of a Loaded 1911, anywhere between 800 and 1200 dollars next to a Hi-Power which has a lower price range than that) the Hi-Power isn't that unreasonable, not considering what you have established as your (extravagant) taste. Yes, you can get a Glock/Beretta/Ruger/S&W auto new or used for a few bills less, but aside from being wondernines they are really distinct from the Hi-Power and in some ways the Hi-Power beats them out clearly (I'll attest to shootability and accuracy as well as stone cold features), so given that and the fact you bend over backwards for guns more expensive and slightly more effective (in some ways less) than others in their category, you're not being entirely reasonable in disliking Hi-Powers.