You might find this helpful. It does not cover a model as old as this one but might still be of some use.

http://media.browning.com/pdf/om/hipowermanual.pdf

Nice piece of history. Glad you preserved it to appreciate.
I think those Brownings were also issued to British troops, I believe, so American troops were often happy to obtain one.
It makes sense that Germans would end up with them although up to now I associated them with German made firearms.
Thanks for sharing.

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The Browning Hi-Power may still be the issue side arm to almost all British Commonwealth troops. It still is for Canadians.

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This was a great buy.
The FN factory in Belgium made plenty of weapons for the Germans under occupation.
I had pass up one in Cabelas last year though it didn't have papers. If I remember correctly it was about 1600. There was another German occupation manufactured Browning, an FN22 for about 600 but I had to pass that up too.

- Peter.

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