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Has anyone had any experiences, good or bad with hi point? I stumbled across them and don't know if they are good or not. Cheap guns, but supposedly pretty good for the price. Opinions?

Cheap, yes.

The carbines seem to work surprisingly well, from what I have seen.

The handguns - the one I saw was complete junk and would not feed FMJ ammo, a sin of the first degree for an autoloader.

Seems that they get real mixed reviews, my guess is production quality varies a bit.

Thanks. Any one else? Trying to decide wether or not I want to pick one up just for kicks.

I have the following:

Hipoint compact 9mm pistol - $99 + tax

I have had three jams with it. Two were caused by me when I accidentally pushed the magazine release with my thumb as it was cycling. I think the third was caused by a bad round. I was hitting right around the clay targets on the 50 yd. backstop yesterday - managed to hit 10 or so.

I have use the following ammunition in it:
Winchester white box value pack
Winchester LEO Ranger SXT
UMC
Selier & Bellot
A-Merc
even one Speer GoldDot +P+ (its rated for it)
and four CCI 9mm shotshells
and a few reloads
It handled all of them, but it will not feed Wolf ammo. It won't even cycle manually with Wolf...

Hipoint 995 9mm carbine - $140 + tax

It has an aftermarket dual magazine pouch on the stock, sling, and a BSA red dot sight. It shoots pretty good. Probably have about 400 rounds of Winchester white box through it with no problems.

Would I buy another one? Yes.

Indy, I work part time in a gun shop. The 9mm carbines we coundent keep them in stock. But the state of commiefornia decided they were an assualt weapon and that stopped us from selling them. As for the pistol, do not take it apart. There is a small ball bearning that will fall out and youll spend half the day looking for it. Last one I took apart took 3 people working togather to put it back to gather. It has commonly been refered to as the "CLUB"

Gun Runner

Thanks guys. I appreciate the help. I am a college student, and as such, cannot afford the more expensive guns. So, these guns look like they will work well for me.

i got one in 45 acp just love it shoots fmj's and my cast bullet with no jaming.i can say this gun is better some of the colt's i've owned and didn't cost me the farm to buy.i hit a steel 5by8 inc.target at 85 yards withit.one good gun for the money.

For those of you that own/have used one of these guns, is it actually solidly built? For 140 dollars, I cannot fathom quality. If this company can put forward a good product at that cost, I may have to check it out. I mean seriously, a new 9mm for 100 bucks. Insane.

The slide is a little loose on my pistol, but all are rated +P+ from the factory. The guy at the store where I bought mine said that they can't keep them... They sell as fast as they come in. He also said that of all they have sold, one has come back, because the guy took it apart and couldn't figure out how to put it back together. So, they assembled it for him and he left with it...

I'm seriously considering both the 9mm Rifle and either the .45 or 9mm pistol. Only conflict is my desire to use the rifle for plinking, and for the same price I could just get a nice little .22. I'd also save a pile of cash on ammo. But it'd also be nice to have a .45 to shoot at the range and save 10 bucks on the rental fee. I'll have to think about this for a while, hope I don't strain too hard.

I too bought the Compact 9mm. I only paid $99 also. And I loved the gun. I have a friend who is really big on Crocks, (glocks) So we did a test. One box of Wolf FMJ ammo and our guns, over the hood of a toyota. We both shot both guns. The High Point was the more accurate. Now is this scientific? No, but it proved a point. For an inexpensive fun gun, look no furhter.
As far as the "Never dissasemble" stories you hear, I say *. I took mine apart all the time to monkey with it. The only thing that you need to do, is read the supplied instructions, look at the picture, so you know not to shoot yourself in the face with the fireing pin spring.
Mine digested WOLF, CorBon, and Speer stuff with no trouble. At most I ate 300 rounds between cleanings and never had any issues.
I did trade it 6 months ago for a Savage 110 in .270. Not a bad trade I felt. Would I buy one again? Certainly.

2 cents

Thanks. Yall have me convinced.