{"id":20628,"date":"2022-08-08T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/08\/before-the-high-power-was-the-fn-grand-rendement\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:00:09","slug":"before-the-high-power-was-the-fn-grand-rendement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/08\/before-the-high-power-was-the-fn-grand-rendement\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the High Power was the FN Grand Rendement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9KxwOQUCgxM?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Browning High Power story begins with a French 1921 request for a new military pistol. FN engineer Dieudonn\u00e9 Saive developed a double stack, single feed magazine and John Browning adapted a Browning 1903 pistol to use it, and this was sent to France for consideration. This pistol worked well enough, but the French trials board requested changes&#8230;and they would continue requesting changes and more trials for the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>By 1931, FN felt that the current iteration of the pistol &#8211; while still not meeting all the French requirements &#8211; was good enough to stand on its own as a service pistol for the Belgian Army and other clients. They named it the &#8220;Grand Rendement&#8221; (High Efficiency) and began marketing it. The Belgian Army showed a definite interest, and bought 1,000 pistols for field trials, based on the prototype example we have in today&#8217;s video. These would become the Grande Puissance, aka the High Power.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on this and other FN Browning pistols, I highly recommend Anthony Vanderlinden&#8217;s &#8220;FN Browning Pistols&#8221;, soon to be released in its third edition:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnbrowning.com\/book-fn-browning-pistols-3rd-editio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.fnbrowning.com\/book-fn-browning-pistols-3rd-editio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>Forgotten Weapons<br \/>6281 N. Oracle 36270<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeaponshttp:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com The Browning High Power story begins with a French 1921 request for a new military pistol. FN engineer Dieudonn\u00e9 Saive developed a double stack, single feed magazine and John Browning adapted a Browning 1903 pistol to use it, and this was sent to France for consideration. This pistol worked&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/08\/before-the-high-power-was-the-fn-grand-rendement\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Before the High Power was the FN Grand Rendement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":20629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}