10mm hipoint first impressions

[10mm4ever]

Well I went to a local gun store this afternoon to get a Redding grx pass through die to remove the Glock bulges from my 10mm brass as it interferes with chambering in all my other tighter pistols. While looking around I came upon a hi point 10mm carbine for $339, my wife decided to buy it for me for Father's Day. I haven't even looked at guns in that price range for many years. Now for first impressions (since it's raining out) fit and finish aren't bad there is a small amount of finish missing at the back of the slot for the bolt handle. There are machining marks in the bolt and the outside of the chamber hood. The magazine takes a moderate push to insert, not too much. The magazine doesn't always fall completely out, sometimes it falls straight to the floor. The trigger feels surprisingly good, it was hard to scale due to the radical curve, but form my testing it seems to be falling in at 4.5/5 lbs. for some reason the front sight is a gray color it looks parkerised, the rest of the rifle is black. One down side is there is only one supplied magazine. The sights are straight forward. This seems like a lot of firearm for the money, if it shoots as good as the value it will be a keeper. If the weather straightens up I'll throw some lead through the chronograph and see what kind of velocities it gives. Yes it could be slightly more refined, but for a guy who doesn't usually even consider anything under the $1500 and up range I'm impressed

[Sobrbiker]

They may be fun beaters! Carbines are the only thing that HiPoint has that's made me not want to throw up a little.
If the 10mm took Glock mags I'd probably have to have one!
Curious to hear how it does.

[10mm4ever]

Glock mags would have been a plus I think I saw some 14 round 45 mags I'll give them a try if the rifle tests out to be a keeper

[Kwesi]

My wife purchased one for me for my birthday.  I've got almost 600 rounds down range.  I like this Carbine for $331 delivered.  This baby functions! This is the first new gun that I did not strip and clean before firing.  I called HP and was told it was not necessary. Straight to the range and fired 325 of my reloads in the 1150-1200 FPS range for proper break in. I only had a single failure to feed with nose up in the 119th round!  I'm working on a hog load fit this 1095TS.  I've shared chrono with the admin to post.  I could care less about nicks and machining marks.  It will be in the woods with me.  I'm getting great groups @50 yards and 4" @100.