It’s an old, battletested design that still gets the job done. Meet the HiPower.

John Moses Browning graced the gun world with a wealth of amazing firearms, but his “final design” delivered – if not fully completed – something truly special. We’ve actually already done a nice video covering some of the variants. So here we will do something different and pay homage to a gun that lived a rough life and keeps on ticking.

The HiPower became one of the mostserving military pistols in history, fighting on both sides of World War II and even making its way to the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In fact, last we checked, the Canadian military was still working to replace their aging Inglis HiPowers from World War II.

If there’s one thing that really stands out about the HiPower, it has got to be the capacity. In the 1930s, Browning’s design delivered 13+1 rounds of 9mm. It did this by using a doublestack magazine in a platform that was also reliable and easy to maintain and mass produce.