In his monumental FÉG article, JayPee briefly touches on the P9R and how that pistol is sometimes mis-labeled and mis-identified as a FÉG "Hi-Power." And while he sees a resemblance between the P9R and the S&W 59 (which is there, no doubt), I see FÉG once again following Fabrique Nationale and the style of their Hi-Power DA pistol. But where FN clearly based the HP-DA on the original Hi-Power design, FÉG based the P9R on the P9M with the S&W operating system rather than the Browning system found in the P9.
Figure 1 is a rendering of an early FN HP-DA. Compare it to Figure 2, which is the FÉG P9R.
But the Gold Medal award for producing the most similar pistol to the FN HP-DA has to go to the Bulgarian arms maker Arcus. In fact, their Model 98 DA could justifiably be called a more faithful attempt at making a double action version of the original Browning Hi-Power than even the HP-DA.
Figure 1 is a rendering of an early FN HP-DA. Compare it to Figure 2, which is the FÉG P9R.
Figure 1: FN HP-DA
Figure 2: FÉG P9R
But the Gold Medal award for producing the most similar pistol to the FN HP-DA has to go to the Bulgarian arms maker Arcus. In fact, their Model 98 DA could justifiably be called a more faithful attempt at making a double action version of the original Browning Hi-Power than even the HP-DA.
Figure 3: Arcus 98 DA
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