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The new Hi-Powers that are a "reintroduction" of the older all steel type are ove $1,000, you could get lucky like me and find an older one that someone thinks is "broken" and all it needed was a $5 new sear and it's good as new. For pure shooting and fun, you can't beat the old Hi-Powers, I would have preferred a fixed sight model but for $300 some odd I wasn't going to turn down an adjustable sight example.

Don't forget about police and security trade ins, I know the security company I worked for would trade in the older Glocks they had and just get new ones, so a few years ago some lucky people were able to pick up some barely used but holster worn Glock 22's for less than half the cost of a new one, I wanted to buy my old duty pistol but I left the job to join the army before the "updated". Also, lots of PD's dumped stuff like S&W 5906's, S&W Sigma 9mms, Rugers and Beretta 92F's when they started going crazy for Glock .40's which are fast becoming the ubiquitous police gun. The PA State Police dumped a bunch of Beretta 96D .40's a few years back in favor of Glocks in .45 GAP so once in a while a few of the stainless 96D's turn up locally and these mysterious LHPD marked S&W 5906's seem to be at every gun shop I visit in PA so some agency must have traded in lots of them.

The CZ-75/85 "family" of pistols is a fine choice, my 85B was NIB for under $500, if I recall, it might have been like $400 and change and it was one of the best gun purchases I have ever made. That gun has given me great service and continues to do so, and probably will for the rest of my life, and has served as a shooter, practice/training gun, glove box gun, occasional winter carry gun, and is now my downstairs "TV room" piece in case something goes bump outside and I need to grab something fast. I got one of the excellent ProMag 17 round mags for it, and keep the original 16 rounders it came with loaded and ready next to it. I also have some cheap crappy mags I use as "range throw down" mags for when I really get on it and want to do real move and shoot drills at my range or backyard. Basically the CZ-75 does it all, and finding parts like springs is easy, Wollf makes them and also EAA/Tanfoglio Witness springs fit too, and the Witnesses are hugely popular so parts are everywhere. There's a reason why there are so many "CZ75 clones" around, because other companies in Europe copy what works! The CZ75 also being updated by CZ with the poly frame guns,and also the more tactical type SP-01 with the light rail and wierd frame. I would grab a steel one ASAP before CZ gets dumb and phases it out in favor of the poly frame "Phantom" or Shadow, whatever it's called. I love the classic non-rail all steel CZ75, and I am looking to add both a stainless model and track down an older East Bloc era gun, from when they still had "Made in Czechoslovakia" on the frame.

If you want to go inexpensive (not "cheap") I hear Arcus in Bulgaria makes good guns, they have a sort-of DA Hi-Power clone, that goes for $350 or so. Maybe not a ultra top shelf gun, but I would pick one up just to shoot cheap steel case 9mm through it without worrying about breaking an extractor on one of my "good" guns.

I keep fighting off the temptation to buy a Hi-Point full size 9mm, because they are so darn CHEAP locally where I'm at, like $180, but I never have partly because they are so ugly, and cheaply made, and I already have enough 9's to last 3 lifetimes, so hard to justify a "cheap shooter". I always use the excuse "I just want a cheap shooter/beater/car gun" when I buy "off brand" stuff, but I think I would rather go with a Taurus PT92, the Arcus, a Witness or a TZ-75 the next time this urge strikes me and I happen to have some cash laying around.