Ep. 369 | The Hi-Point Carbine — Beautiful Chaos

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🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Originally developed during the now expired 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, the Hi-Point Carbine gets no respect. It looks goofy and cool at the same time. It has some interesting idiosyncrasies. When it comes to fit and finish, this thing is questionable at best. Yet, we secretly love it. Tune in to hear the high points of the often maligned, Hi-Point Carbine.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast, brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.
0:15.9	What is up, everybody? Jim to my right, Mr. Ryan Muck and Huron across from me. Gentlemen,
0:22.6	I am on a high this morning. I am on a Monday morning high, and that's the high point carbine, Jim.
0:31.8	Oh, boy, if that's what does it for you. Well, and the cheap stuff. You're probably way, way more up there than I am right now because this is yours.
0:41.4	This is your high point carbine.
0:43.3	You're right.
0:44.2	I have been huffing this high point carbine for years now.
0:51.4	Yeah.
0:53.3	You're like a... I feel like... You've talked about this before.
0:58.8	Big high point guy. Big high point guy. Yeah. You like this thing, though. I feel like you've got
1:03.1	like a special affinity for it. It's kind of weird, kind of different. You love cheap guns that work.
1:09.6	Yeah. You're right.
1:10.8	I do have an affinity for those things.
1:12.3	I actually, though, like in this podcast, I was doing some thinking this morning as I pulled this out of the safe.
1:20.9	Safe queen?
1:22.2	Has this just kind of been your safe queen?
1:24.9	As of late, yeah, it's turned into a bit of a safe queen. At first it wasn't really,
1:30.4	but it's become that. And I actually think, I looked on, I had to look online to actually
1:36.5	see if they still sell these things. And yes, indeed they do. They haven't changed.
1:40.1	There's a bunch of them. Like, I feel like there's like a lot of different variants.
1:43.9	Yeah, there's a lot of different variants, but it's really not variance.
1:46.6	Like, you can get it in, in configurations that fire different cartridges.
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