As you know, we here at pistol-training.com love a good pistol test. And now, someone has finally stepped up to the challenge of testing the Yugo of pistols: the infamous Hi-Point.
TCinVA, also known to some by his other screen name John_Wayne777, is doing what many have threatened but none actually dared. He is doing a serious two thousand round test of the Hi-Point over at Gun Nuts.
Much to my surprise, in the first 150 rounds the gun only had three failures. Contrary to Tim’s claim, this makes me think perhaps he got a cherry-picked pistol that saw extra QC, TLC, and possibly the sacrifice of some virgins to make it run so much better than the average Hi-Point.
Go read the initial report at Gun Nuts and hopefully we’ll see more over the next few weeks. And huge thanks to Tim “TCinVA” for sacrificing his time, money, possibly his sanity, and almost certainly his humanity for our entertainment.
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
The only reply I can think of is the pic of Stony from Super Troopers… Mother of God.
I knew I should have put a “no virgins were harmed in the production of this test” disclaimer in there.
I think Todd transposed those numbers. It took 150 attempts to get three shots down range.
But it has a lifetime warranty!
My local pawn/gun shop owner sells a lot of Taurus pistols but he will not touch a Hi-Point. Gotta have standards. 😉
Well, we all draw the line at some point. Apparently your local gun store owner draws the line at Taurus. At least there’s a chance that a Taurus could make a nice gun, and you can send it back until it seems to function properly. Hi-Points would be bad guns even if they worked flawlessly, just be their terrible design specs.
Here we see another hi-point functioning as expected. And in the comments section over on gunnuts, we see hi-point fan boys functioning as expected, touting 150 round reliability records and such.
I don’t consider myself a gun snob, but a lifetime warranty is different from being able to bet your life on a gun. There are so many good guns that are affordable, that I just don’t understand saving 200 bucks on a gun that is a disaster in so many ways vs something decent like a sig 2022.
How much do we spend on life insurance, and auto insurance, but we won’t spend 200 more on a quality firearm as a 1 time spend.
Tim, may heaven protect you against the “highpoints r awsome i shoot handreds of bullet wiht myne ura gub snab!1” fanbois…
What is the world coming to when freaking High Points have raving fanbois?
AW said, “and in the comments section over on gunnuts, we see hi-point fan boys functioning as expected, touting 150 round reliability records and such.”
Hahaha, AW, I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner than it did.
“How much do we spend on life insurance, and auto insurance, but we won’t spend 200 more on a quality firearm as a 1 time spend.”
Awesome stuff right there.
I’ve met some folks who owned Hi-Point pistols. They didn’t know much about guns and they couldn’t afford much to spend on a gun or ammunition (and they certainly didn’t own any life insurance). But they lived in neighborhoods in which it was much more likely they’d need to use a gun than the neighborhoods many of us live in.
A Hi-Point wouldn’t be much good for a 500 round range session, but will probably do fine for the first several rounds fired–and as a home defense weapon that is all you really need. Personally, if that is all I could afford, I’d buy one.
The Hi-Point carbines, meanwhile are accurate, quite reliable and cheaper than even a used Glock. They’re more expensive than the pistols, but would be a better choice for defense.
I heard about a guy who fired a Hi Point, which blew up. The shrapnel killed his whole family, the bullet ricocheted and killed his dog, and then sparks from the ricochet burned his house down, and then the shell casing landed on a voting machine and registered a vote for the political party he disagreed wit
If one had limited funds for a defensive handgun, a Czech CZ-82 can be had for around the same money, without the QC issues or the stigma of owning a Hi Point.
Even an old Soviet Nagant revolver is a better choice than the Hi Point, and that’s not saying very much.
cmoore,
“I heard about a guy who fired a Hi Point, which blew up. The shrapnel killed his whole family, the bullet ricocheted and killed his dog, and then sparks from the ricochet burned his house down, and then the shell casing landed on a voting machine and registered a vote for the political party he disagreed wit”
So, he was one of the lucky ones then, eh?