Hipoint 995 carbine clean and polish

[gassprint1]

I Traded for a hipoint 995 carbine and it shot pretty good. Me and @krvincen had some fun with it friday afternoon. After a few rounds it would smoke while we kept shooting. Sunday afternoon i tore it completely down finding the feed ramp and the rest of the receiver cruded up with alot of oil and just nasty. It still shot good with it like this. . Has to be the smoking issue. I also noticed the buffer pretty wore out. Called Hipoint and parts on the way.
This is pretty much my journey from cleaning to removing the paint on the receiver and also the slide to polishing. Should be a smooth action when done.

First pic is of the wore out mushroomed buffer.
Next 2 pics after...Receiver after a buff and polishing. Still needs a bath, final polishing and light oil. I have compound inside the barrel still.

Slide before and after buffing and 1 polish. Will get a final polish after it gets a bath. Hard to get pics without the reflection making it look dirty.


2 Pics of how nasty the receiver was.

 

[krvincen]

Looking better every time I see pics. Also that smoke pouring out of the action was weird, when you opened it up all I could think of was it looked like someone lubed it with motor oil. Worked though, gun ran flawlessly and I have no idea how many rounds of 2A reloads I fired through it but quite a few for sure.

 

[gassprint1]

Final wash in very hot soapy water, blown off with air compressor and a final 2 hand polished. Now waiting on the new firing pin an springs and buffer an spring to reassemble.

 

[krvincen]

I can’t wait until you get it back together and we can take it back out shoot my steel again. No matter the brand that thing was reliable and point on running on motor oil should feel like butter now all polished up and properly lubed.

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

The Hipoint 995 is a very under appreciated carbine. Wish they made reliable high capacity mags. I picked one up and gave it to a friend as a low cost self defense carbine with four standard mags.

 

[gassprint1]

The Hipoint 995 is a very under appreciated carbine. Wish they made reliable high capacity mags. I picked one up and gave it to a friend as a low cost self defense carbine with four standard mags.

Me too. I have 2 of the 15rd aftermarket. Those 20 or whatever round aftermarket mags being made just look so friggin ridiculous.

 

[Johnk]

I have the HighPoint Carbine in 45acp. fun little shooter. and as discovered above, it runs clean or dirty.

 

[gassprint1]

I have the HighPoint Carbine in 45acp. fun little shooter. and as discovered above, it runs clean or dirty.

I opted to trade my SR1911 off last month because of ammo cost. I have sever 9mm pistols, so the biggest reason for the 995. I did all the polishing an new parts installed. New firering pin springs were about 1/4" longer than old springs and felt and sounded crunchy upon pulling the slide back. Put old springs back in an was goid. Haven't call hipoint about the change in lenghts yet. There is no coils or such mods done to the original spring(long) that came in it. I had sticking issues with the 10rd mag before hand which now it will drop right out as it should. I loaded it with 10rds of ppu 124gr and had 4 or 5 ftf when test firering the first time. Mayve tomorrow I'll get to run some rounds from a 15rd mag just to see if it's the mag feed lips on the 10rd mad which i think it is. People had nothing but problems on the C9 mags with having to adjust them .

 

[gassprint1]

Just now getting around to loading up 15rd mags to test. Few weeks ago i got a Vortex Spitfire AR 1X prism optic and used my barrel laser sighter to get it close. My target to porch is about 33 yards, so in the pic(center) i had it close just testing the 15rd mags and then made some optic adjustments to get closer which were center and then the 4 corners. Im not the steadest shooter. Some day i might have a gun rest. First mag was perfecta 115gr and last 3 mags were ppu 124gr. Trigger feel so much smoother with what i did!

 

[TJ Kackowski]

Just now getting around to loading up 15rd mags to test. Few weeks ago i got a Vortex Spitfire AR 1X prism optic and used my barrel laser sighter to get it close. My target to porch is about 33 yards, so in the pic(center) i had it close just testing the 15rd mags and then made some optic adjustments to get closer which were center and then the 4 corners. Im not the steadest shooter. Some day i might have a gun rest. First mag was perfecta 115gr and last 3 mags were ppu 124gr. Trigger feel so much smoother with what i did!
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1" grid or 1/2" grid?

 

[gassprint1]

1" grid or 1/2" grid?

1". On the 20th when we have the nwi meet n shoot, I'll be dialing in for 50yards.

 

[Scott58]

I've got the .45 also and it runs excellent. I did have to buy another .22 to offset the cost of use. Fun = expensive.