I guess its not dead and buried after all.
Nice write-up of the SA-35 in this month's Shooting Illustrated and they gave it their thumbs-up. Not impressed with accuracy but, build-quality looks solid. Given a choice, though, I believe I'd buy the FN over the SA.
Like the Tisas and Girsan clones, quality problems. Writer didn't do very good research, lots of info from Springfield's ad copy, missed real facts in describing the features.
I don't comprestand this. Browning made these for decades with low sales bringing death. Turkey is like China in that they don't have words that translate to IP and QA/QC and they where pumping out cheap clones. Now two companies are tooling up to make these things in 2022?
*I'm not dogging on the Hi Power/P35. I like em*
Glad I’ll be able to get one without Springfield roll marks.
The question is what will FN do about that magazine disconnect?
The Springfield SA-35 is reincarnation.
This new FN version looks an undead zombie.
In 2022 the appeal of the BHP is tha5it is a simple, elegant design that has stood the test of time because of the incredible capability it had from day 1. Are there better handguns out there now? Yes, but that is not the point.
The BHP is old school but it can still do the job Ina "Get off my lawn" kind of way. Pimping it up with ambi controls and other BS makes it into nothing.
It does not have the clean, classic lines of the original BHP that the SA-35 keeps
The "improvements" don't bring it into the same league as a modern Glock, SiG or similar offering. It is still a single action auto pistol and inferior to modern designs that cost as much or less.
Taking a hard pass on this one.