“Maybe Theresa Hi-Point, the evil heir to the Hi-Point fortune, forced me to buy it at gunpoint (using a much more reliable gun than her company offers)? Sadly, no. Alex Hollings, yes indeed it is (and he speaks from personal experience, with a deliciously witty writing style): But is it really as bad as its cheap reputation and sneering jokes make it out to be? According to another highly savvy gun writer, Mr. Okay, those of you readers who are at least somewhat knowledgeable about handguns shouldn’t be the least bit surprised to see the Hi-Point on the list. Its long double-action trigger combined with a kooky front sight design did nothing to help in that department.” Pike again, “Colt All American pistols were notoriously unreliable and often failed to make it through an entire magazine without a malfunction…Accuracy was a major issue as well. It used a blowback operation that created excessive recoil, and the double-action-only trigger sucked…It was a modern but crappy gun.”Ĭolt’s long-delayed and much-anticipated entry into the “ Wonder Nine” market turned out to be a sick, abortive joke that was truly much ado about nothing. In the blunt words of the ever-savvy Travis Pike, in an article titled “ James Bond’s Sidearms (Besides the PPK),” puts it quite bluntly: “The VP70 was short-lived as one of Bond’s sidearms and honestly wasn’t a great gun. A pistol carried by none other than James Bond in the bestselling novel “ For Special Services” (penned by John Gardner, the successor to Ian Fleming may they both R.I.P.). This is a pistol made by the highly reputable HK, who has churned out a bunch of truly outstanding autopistols, from the P9S – by some accounts the world’s most accurate 9mm pistol – to the squeeze-cocking P7 to the USP/ SOCOM Mk 23 to the P2000. “The Rogak P18 was a copy of the Steyr GB service pistol, with some disagreement over whether it was unlicensed or just unfortunately made…On paper, the gun seemed quite impressive – a stainless steel 18-shot gas-delayed military pistol in the late 1970s was something on the forefront of handgun development…Unfortunately, Rogak’s manufacturing left a lot to be desired…Numerous burrs, casting defects, and fit problems plagued the guns, to the extent that Steyr actually filed a legal suit to stop their manufacture.”
So, exactly what was wrong with it? Ian McCollum explains in a June 2017 article for the Forgotten Weapons website:
The Rogak made his “worst” list, stating that “Even most gun writers admit they jam epidemically and frequently break.”
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In a summer 1990 issue of American Handgunner Magazine, “Mas” (as many of his friends and professional acquaintances call him) wrote a twin set of articles on what he considered the best and worst handgun developments of the 1980s. Ayoob are any indication, this pistol died a particularly well-deserved death. If the writings of highly respected self-defense expert and law enforcement veteran Massad F. Let’s say a dubious hello to the worst 9mm handguns in the world. After talking about my 5 least favorite rifles yesterday (admittedly a VERY subjective list, as quite a few fellow shooters hold my selections in high regard), now it’s time to go back to handguns.
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