Springfield EMP vs BHP

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Patent rights at the time JMB was designing the gun that would become the Hi Power meant that the design had to be quite different from the 1911. Also, JMB started the design of the Hi Power, but he died in 1928, while the BHP debuted in 1935. An FN employee, D.J. Saive, made some changes and then finished the design.
 

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Differences being, but not limited to:
1) Triggers are entirely different. The 1911 pulls straight to the rear, the BHP trigger pivots on a pin.
2) The 1911 barrel is attached to the frame via a swinging link. The BHP introduced the now ubiquitous Browning short recoil system, with a barrel cam located under the barrel itself.
3) Because of the width of the BHP's double column magazine, the trigger works on the sear thru a trigger lever in the frame and a sear lever in the slide, whereas the 1911 trigger pulls straight to the rear and works directly on the sear. The addition of the sear lever and trigger lever accounts for the "slop" in the BHP's trigger. Not matter how well tuned, the BHP trigger will never be as crisp as that of a good 1911.
 
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