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Post by metalbender on Aug 27, 2023 11:13:32 GMT -5
That's the newer information that I was reading. The research I did was around ten or twelve years ago. Many theories floating out there. The member, beczl, seems to have more info than was available for years. I would still like to know how many made it to Canada. Maybe I've got a Unicorn  Many thanks Fred |
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Post by ToddSig on Aug 27, 2023 11:32:44 GMT -5
That's the newer information that I was reading. The research I did was around ten or twelve years ago. Many theories floating out there. The member, beczl, seems to have more info than was available for years. I would still like to know how many made it to Canada. Maybe I've got a Unicorn Many thanks Fred Fred, post on beczl's thread, and ask about FEG exports to Canada, he might know. It may not specifically relate to the counterfeit, but perhaps FEG in general. Beczl monitors the thread and has always been very willing to clarify FEG topics and answer member questions. |
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Post by tnorris on Aug 28, 2023 9:33:15 GMT -5
That's the newer information that I was reading. The research I did was around ten or twelve years ago. Many theories floating out there. The member, beczl, seems to have more info than was available for years. I would still like to know how many made it to Canada. Maybe I've got a Unicorn Many thanks Fred
Fred,
Do Canadian records indicate when your pistol entered the registry? I am wondering if it could have been brought home by a Canadian Serviceman during or after the Gulf War, Desert Storm.
Cheers,
Tim
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Post by CXM on Aug 28, 2023 9:33:40 GMT -5
I bought a 'fake' HP about 10-11 years ago from Cole in Kentucky. He got them in a big lot of surplus HPs he got from Israel which contained all sorts of odd and rare stuff in addition to lots and lots of FN built HPs a few of which were Browning marked. He had advertised them as real HPs but when he found out they were not the real thing he changed his advertising and I understand offered to buy the guns back from the people who bought them. Gary Cole was a stand up guy.
Anyway, I knew mine was not the real thing, but Cole said it must have either come from guns captured in various wars with the arabs or something Israel bought directly from FEG a long time ago... he had no further information. This theory seemed credible to me because of various UN meddling Israel's business over the years tended to make the Izzys try to obscure the source of a lot of their weapons.
Much of the above could also apply to guns acquired by various arab countries.
This example is possibly one that was not delivered and sold on the secondary market by FEG.
FWIW
Chuck
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Post by metalbender on Aug 29, 2023 21:10:44 GMT -5
Hey Tim. I didn't want to open a can of worms calling the CFO about this gun. Somehow it was registered as an original Hi Power, someone in the government not doing their job in following up the incorrect serial number for such a firearm. Imagine that. Fred
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Post by tnorris on Aug 30, 2023 6:53:38 GMT -5
Hey Tim. I didn't want to open a can of worms calling the CFO about this gun. Somehow it was registered as an original Hi Power, someone in the government not doing their job in following up the incorrect serial number for such a firearm. Imagine that. Fred
Hi Fred,
I understand completely! I wouldn't ever tell them it was n FEG counterfeit, just ask when it entered the system... for historical purposes which might be a bit of a stretch for a pistol made in 1986.
In defense of the CFO, the serial number is correct and virtually no one would be able to tell that this FN marked High Power was made by FEG, except for a few in the High Power Collectors community and even then only with the recent information from Beczl/Lazslo.
Anyway, glad the pistol is in good hands with you!
Cheers,
Tim
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Many thanks Fred 
