{"id":2128,"date":"2008-02-22T05:56:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T10:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2008-04-02T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T13:30:20","slug":"hot-gear-friday-browning-hp35-hi-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2128","title":{"rendered":"Hot Gear Friday &#8211; Browning HP35 &#8220;Hi-Power&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Hot Gear Friday feature (with a nod to Anti-Strib&#8217;s Hot Chick Friday only with, like, gear instead of chicks &#8211; although please, guys &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.0zz0.com\/2007\/10\/18\/20\/84439377.jpg\">Barbara Eden<\/a>?  Yeep) is the Browning HP35.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www4.0zz0.com\/2007\/10\/18\/20\/84439377.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A first-cousin of the legendary Colt M1911A1, this 1935 design was the standard pistol of most British Commonwealth armies from the end of World War II (it was served with Britain&#8217;s paratroopers and commandos during the war), and the standard sidearm of the SAS&#8217; hostage rescue teams until, reportedly, quite recently.<\/p>\n<p>I never much liked 9mm handguns &#8211; but the Hi-Power is perhaps the one handgun in the world that fits my hand <em>perfectly<\/em> and points like no other I&#8217;ve ever shot, including the M1911.  They&#8217;re not cheap, these days, but ooooh nellie, I tell ya &#8211; one of these next tax refunds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Hot Gear Friday feature (with a nod to Anti-Strib&#8217;s Hot Chick Friday only with, like, gear instead of chicks &#8211; although please, guys &#8211; Barbara Eden? Yeep) is the Browning HP35. A first-cousin of the legendary Colt M1911A1, this 1935 design was the standard pistol of most British Commonwealth armies from the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-hot-gear-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}