High Standard 22's are tack drivers!

All my High Standards now use the Military Style Magazine. I just found one magazine from one model I used to own that used the other style without the little extension on the bottom. Guess my next post is back over to the Classifieds.

Bob
 
The Military seems to be among the most popular HS pistols if not THE most popular and wonder why. Is it, do you think, because of the exposed hammer?

Also, after reviewing the poor photo of my Military, it looks lots worse than in reality. So I took another photo, which I'll attach. The rainbow look on the slide is a because of the lighting. Still a good general use .22 pistol I need to shoot more.

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Their Sentinel revolvers are sleepers as well. Both of mine I have owned for 7+ years but I bought one for $100 the other for just under $200 on auction sites. If I do my part they will put 9 rounds in 1 1/2" at 25 yards which is as well as I can do with a model 18.
 
I have several Hi Standards. All are excellent, some are just about as accurate as a good rifle. They are way better than I’m really able to take advantage of. Here are a couple of representative targets at 25 and 50 yds.
 

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High Standard is the only US handgun to ever win an Olympic Gold Medal, back in 1960. Great guns, but the magazines can be finicky, as they are effectively the feed ramp, of the system. It can take a bit of bending, on the lips of the mag, with a fine point needle-nose pliers, to get things "just right". My Supermatic was out of commission, for a few months, after my sister slammed the magazine into the well, and bent the lips. Even my gunsmith couldn't get it to work right (and he grew up shooting High Standards for Bullseye). I finally got it fixed by tweaking the mag lips a bit more. My gunsmith, an NRA High Master, now shoots a Marvel 1911 conversion for the .22 portion of Bullseye. He says HS were the most accurate guns he ever shot, but he stopped using them years ago, because of the temperamental magazines.
Mine is a tack driver, and the most accurate handgun I've ever owned (in these tyro-hands). Yes, I shoot it weak-side, when it's wearing its ambi-grips (it came with these right-handed target grips with a thumb-rest).

There's no feed ramp in the Victor so the feed lips have to align the round just right to allow the slide to bat it into the chamber. There's some logic (and some art) involved in adjusting the feed lips just right with the correct angle and rim height as well as the right clearance on the front portion fo the feed lips. You really need the adjustment tool to do it right without driving your self nuts and bending the lips back and forth excessively. It's about $45-$50, but it's a one time buy.

Interarmstx sells a decent magazine for the Victor. I bought two, a spare for each of my 107 Victors. One of them ran perfectly in both pistols out of the wrap, while the other one needed some tweaking to get perfect function in both pistols. The feed lips are however hard enough to stay in tune, unlike the Triple K magazines.
 

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