Comments by "geodkyt" (@geodkyt) on "What Would Browning Do: FN's New High Power" video.

I don't see a "Tacticool" version of this High Power competing with their 509 market. Two vastly different demos, there. 509 buyers are more pragmatic (if sometimes a bit hipster), while anyone seriously interested in a single action hammered fired metal framed pistol is being driven primarily by nostalgia and mechanical conservatism. Think "Glock" versus "1911" fans - even if a company sold both a Glock clone and a modernized STI clone, they wouldn't be competing with themselves for market share, as they'd ben selling each to mostly different groups of people altogether.
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@WALTERBROADDUS There are only two points in a new Hi Power:. 1. You want a classic Browning pistol... in which case thus isn't the gun you want, because it really isn't a HiPower at all, despite the surface appearance. So a miss, right there. 2. You want a modern pistol. In which case yeah, putting the capacity for modern common accessories is called for. Except... you'd likely also want a modern trigger system of some sort. So, a miss, again. "Neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring."
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