{"id":75536,"date":"2022-12-12T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=75536"},"modified":"2022-12-11T10:14:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T15:14:16","slug":"before-the-high-power-was-the-fn-grand-rendement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/12\/12\/before-the-high-power-was-the-fn-grand-rendement\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the High Power was the FN <em>Grand Rendement<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9KxwOQUCgxM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Forgotten Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 8 Aug 2022<\/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 &mdash; while still not meeting all the French requirements &mdash; was good enough to stand on its own as a service pistol for the Belgian Army and other clients. They named it the &#8220;<em>Grand Rendement<\/em>&#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 <em>Grande Puissance<\/em>, aka the High Power.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on this and other FN Browning pistols, I highly recommend Anthony Vanderlinden&#8217;s <em>FN Browning Pistols<\/em>, soon to be released in its third edition:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnbrowning.com\/book-fn-browning-pistols-3rd-editio\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.fnbrowning.com\/book-fn-br&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0I2S19oaUdIaW42cEhBd1FHXy1RTEE0azJWZ3xBQ3Jtc0ttc0hMS08wV0VMMXZ5M00ybE5mNW1WY1RGY0k1SWR3OWdObVdqNDFCWnpyS2NoM1dBdjJ2bm9HSS01Smx3TDV5VnFlaEhPSUJRLUxKVXpzWU1YMm5kQS16djJMVUJZSFN0ZU1PbEM5UlVjTmdhdzNTSQ&#038;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.floatplane.com%2Fchannel%2FForgottenWeapons&#038;v=9KxwOQUCgxM\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/For&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\n6281 N. Oracle 36270<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85740<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10-12-31-Before-the-High-Power-was-the-FN-Grand-Rendement-Quotulatiousness.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10-12-31-Before-the-High-Power-was-the-FN-Grand-Rendement-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-78572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10-12-31-Before-the-High-Power-was-the-FN-Grand-Rendement-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10-12-31-Before-the-High-Power-was-the-FN-Grand-Rendement-Quotulatiousness-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10-12-31-Before-the-High-Power-was-the-FN-Grand-Rendement-Quotulatiousness-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10-12-31-Before-the-High-Power-was-the-FN-Grand-Rendement-Quotulatiousness.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten Weapons Published 8 Aug 2022 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. 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