Seller's remorse of a Hi Standard pistol

[roy rogers]

it's better to have sellers remorse than buyers remorse

[Bawanna]

it's better to have sellers remorse than buyers remorse

Can't always agree with you there. I've made some very very foolish transactions in my day. Sold or traded some that just smack me in the head with a sledge hammer and say What were you thinking?

I think it's related to 20-20 hindsight.

[jg rider]

Second gun I ever owned was a Victor... I miss it too.

It had its few failings - sometimes stovepipes, sometimes weird feeding. Was a little ammo sensitive.

The Tactical Solutions conversion - all steel btw - is very very good. I'm still working on my bullseye .22 with that as its top end. Since the moving mass is very low, you can get a crisp 2.5lb trigger on the 1911 with no doubling or following... it may yet be a "one hole gun" at 25 yards.

The big issue with them was feeding, becaused Hi Standards didn't have feed ramps into the chamber. So the trick was to adjust the feed lips. If the bullet hit to low open the feed lips. If the bullet hit above the chamber close the feed lips.

I made a tool using a 1/4" square piece of aluminium and cut a slot in the end to adjust the lips. I've used this tool to close up our Kahr mag feed lips so that the top round can't easily pop out from a mag in a mag pouch. The tool was an old trick used by Hi Standard shooters.

The other problem with the older ones was that they were made to shoot standard velocity .22s. I shot high velocity stuff. Mine was showing battering on the frame block that the slide hit to stop rear travel. Especially when I put on the can. I glued on a piece of rubber to act as a buffer.






I have a Marvel Precision .22 conversion upper for a 1911 that's pictured in my other above post that I compete with. IIRC back then Marvel guaranteed under a 1" 5 shot group at 50 yds. They come supplied with a test target result. Mine was .469" which as you know is under 1/2" @ 50 yds. I'll will never be able to take advantage of that kind of accuracy, I shoot at 8" to 12" steel plates out at 10 yds. to 35 yds. as fast as I can.

http://www.marvelprecision.com/target.php

I never got around to compare accuracy of the Hi Standard against the Marvel

[Bawanna]

For some reason I thought Marvel was long gone and out of business.

I ran into a guy at the range a few years ago that had one and it was an amazing gun. Incredibly accurate and watching him shoot it, it was just a thing of beauty. Really ran good.

Something else to add to the list I guess.

I wonder if it will be any easier on the wife if I tell her it's a part and not really a gun? Probably not.

[Bawanna]

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=281007794

Here's a nice package I'd love to have sent to me.

I see the new stuff is Night Hawk designed by Marvel.

Why do I look at this stuff?

[jg rider]

Can't always agree with you there. I've made some very very foolish transactions in my day. Sold or traded some that just smack me in the head with a sledge hammer and say What were you thinking?

I think it's related to 20-20 hindsight.

I once had a on again and off again love affair with Walter PPKs and PPKSs. I bought one sold it 6 months later. Got a PPKS on a year later, checkered front and back strap, hard chromed it, it sat in the safe for about a year. Swapped it for the Hi Standard Victor. Bought an other PPKS, checkered and hard chromed that one also. I didn't think it looked as good as the other one so I swapped it for a S&W 5" 629 Classic. Then I swapped a Rossi 680, I think, for a PP .22 (pos). Sold it to a collector.

After that I went to rehab.

I've been Walter free for about 3 yrs.

Does anybody know where there's a Walter .22 TPH for sale? I can handle just a small one!

[Bawanna]

Seems to be a pandemic virus amongst gun lovers. I have a 6" 629 Classic that I'm pondering selling, haven't shot it in years but I know I'll hate myself if I sell it.

Just a rob Peter to pay Paul for something else. I haven't been afflicted with the Walther syndrome myself YET.

[jg rider]

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=281007794

Here's a nice package I'd love to have sent to me.

I see the new stuff is Night Hawk designed by Marvel.

Why do I look at this stuff?

Wow ! That's seems high priced to me, or I'm living in the past. That's not their top of the line unit. The top of the line slide worked the same way as a S&W mod. 41 or a Hi Standard Victor. The rib is stationary The units came with one mag. The other four mags like the first one are Colt Ace mags made by Metalform, originally for Colt, sold by Brownells. The green thing is a mag loader. The thing to the right of the slide stop is a bent socket head screw that fit over the hex end of the guide rod.

FYI ! The company Marvel Precision was started by a guy named Bob Marvel The Marvel design wasn't original to Marvel. IIR the original design was by Kart or Jarvis

Bob sold the company to the now owners and started over again

http://bobmarvelcustomguns.com/22-conversion.html

I think he designed the 1911 .22 conversion unit for Advantage Arms.

http://www.advantagearms.com/

The Night Hawk stuff is his. He doesn't have a good rep. Think Johnathon Ciener

[Internet Blohard]

Here is a Walther TPH for sale in the Portland Oregon area.

http://www.northwestfirearms.com/han...amas-area.html

[jg rider]

Here is a Walther TPH for sale in the Portland Oregon area.

http://www.northwestfirearms.com/han...amas-area.html

Thanks for this but it's more than I willing to pay. He's had that ad up since Jan. and hasn't dropped the price