ORIGINAL: mnprohunter
cayugad,
The Hipoint works well, it lacks the frilly looks of the expensive ones, but if kept clean, it works well. The gun has good fiber optic sights and I found that it shoots winchester well but jams on cci. Other than that, can't beat it for the money, and at some point, I would love to pick up another, perhaps in the caliber you are looking at.
When I was at the Gun Shop a while back, I saw he had one in there. He sure wanted to sell it to me. He told me basically the same thing you did. Not real pretty, kind of heavy, good fiber optics, but if you keep it clean, point it at something and pull the trigger it fires real good. I thought for a walking around gun it might be nice. He had one in .45 and one in .40 S&W