The Many Colors of…Celik?
While wandering around the IWA Outdoor Classic Show in Germany recently, we came across a company making Hi-Power clones and had to find out more.
Celik Arms, located in Beyşehir, Turkey, has been in the gun business since 2005 and makes pistols, rifles, and shotguns, with most of its production headed to the U.S. under a variety of importer’s banners. Odds are, you have probably seen them already and may already have one or two in the gun safe.
One of the company’s newest lines is the FP-14, which is a decent-looking BHP clone in several variants.
They look to be fairly straight-up Mark III-style clones with ambi safety levers, external extractors, and ring-style hammers, but all the models we tested did not have that gun’s dreaded magazine safety.
Further, talking to the reps at the Celik booth, they have just signed a deal with a Nevada-based importer to start shipping the FP-14 to America, so you can be sure to see these in our neck of the woods starting in the next few months.
When FN/Browning closed the O.G. Hi-Power line in 2018, the pang of regret from the gun community was real enough for Springfield Armory, EAA, and SDS Imports to all start rolling their own or having them made in Turkey.
Have we reached max BHP cloneage? Only time will tell, but signs point to “no.”
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I am really leery about the new BHP clones. Springfield (which may or may not have been importing 80% frames from Turkey) had a lot of problems with their initial guns. RUMINT is that the ones after SN #26000 weren’t too bad. The first of the guns were unmitigated dumpster fires.