Posted: 5/8/2005 12:07:35 PM EDT
     Bought this sport king couple of months ago. I've tried to get spare mags for it. Ones that will both fit and feed rounds. When I do find them they only do one or the other. Paid $150 for it and tried to get a target barrel for it, sum bitch at the gun show wanted to charge me $185 for it. Wouldn't come down a cent. Told him he was a fucking moron, cause he lost a sell. Went back all three days and the barrel never left the table. Some shit heads are just plain greedy. |
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I have one, still in the box with both barrels, less than 100 rounds. I'd love to find some magazines for it. It was my grandfathers and he rarely fired it. I think I was the last to shoot it when I was 13 or so. Just got it from his estate and I'd shoot the heck out of the thing if I could find some spare mags. And like you, getting it to feed ANYTHING is practically a miracle. I remember it being pretty much a jam-o-matic when I was a kid but I haven't tried it again yet. |
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Some suggestions (I love High Standards, even 6' long .65 caliber ones like in those huge pictures): www.highstandard.com/ has a section about adjusting magazines. BE GENTLE and work the lips up a little bit. These magazines present the round and sometimes you have to align them to your gun. It helps a lot if you can settle on one kind of ammunition ahead of time, of course. After a little fiddling, you can have 10 mags that work like a charm in that gun and then you never have to adjust them again. You should use only "standard velocity" .22 LR ammo (unless you have the .22 Short kit). This will be a 38-44 grain bullet (round nose) at 1000 fps or so. 1200 fps is too fast and will crack the frame rather quickly. Replace the recoil spring when you can see ANY wear on the outside of the coils. Springs will lose material there and become physically less powerful well before they lose their "spring". And then you will crack the frame. Check this out, please. With any luck, you can find a standard velocity round that will work nicely every time, get the mags in order, and then enjoy the uncanny pointability of those wonderful little guns. |
You may have to go through a bunch to find some that work in your gun properly, but again, once set up for ammo you like, that is that. You might also get Tom Dance's book here: www.chartingnature.com/books.cfm/prints/book=B10796 For a trivial amount, you can get manuals (in OK format)(good enough) here: www.emilitarymanuals.com/gunebooks.htm Charlie Petty wrote an excellent book on early High Standards. This is a place where you can burn a lot of time (last but not least): www.tm-techmark.com/jspacek.htm They are classic American firearms. Now go out and get an M1A or a Garand! EDIT: Thanks for shrinking the photo, too. Now it looks less like a 155! |
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IIRC, Numrich should have almost any H-S barrel you want for under $100. Just be sure and get the right attachment method since there are some differences. I see H-S mags on e-bay all the time. However, they tend to sell for high prices. Brownells carries current H-S parts. I know their barrel prices are high; don‘t know about mag prices. Incidentally, a target barrel will have higher sights than your slide with its fixed rear. |
Hot damn, finally got them on top of each other. Thanks, Sgtar- couldn't you have told me this in simple computer-stupid talk? |