Gameplay wise, the two games are very different, so we’ll leave the Portal references here for now. The visuals are very similar in fact, so much so that you will probably do a double-take when the game loads up for the first time, but then this is a first person puzzle game, with the sole tool of the trade being a gadget on the end of your arm, just like in Portal, so we can forgive the obvious similarities. Let’s get that particular reference out of the way: yes, Magrunner looks and plays a lot like Valve’s super successful action-puzzler. Read our interview with Douglass Burchill, from 3AM Games, here. I’m here to tell you that you should take notice, particularly if you like puzzle games, and especially if you enjoyed Portal. Heck, before getting the preview code, I was pretty much oblivious to its existence. Just go the the links.Magrunner is probably one of those games you don’t know a lot about. I think this adjustment procedure is the 'answer' and the key is getting the rear lips to hold the rim down during loading so as to end up more level when released by the magazine lips. I could not adjusted its rear lips at all and finally discarded it. I adjusted the two late TX Hi Std magazine with no problems with the tool but the earlier TX Hi Std Magazines had the roll of the rear lips all wrong and the tool would not work well on them. On the bench it feeds much better with no marring the ammo as it enters the chamber unlike it was doing before. He also gives a drawing for a tool to adjust the rear lips on his link: It includes adjustments to both the back and front lips. 'Jaybar' on Rimfire Central finally got back to me with a link for the real directions for these magazines. It has me perplexed, if it is not ammo related. If Bob Dunlap is a know specialist in Hi Std then I am really interested in sending him my gun. He also admitted that Bob was the magazine expert. To be fair it is a diverse and tricky subject and Ken suggested that the info was in the Master Gunsmithing classes and not easily digested into a few paragraphs. His partner Ken Brooks (employee and potential future owner of Pasco) was presented with my problem in details on the AGI website and could not offer any special advice or even details of general magazine adjustments. Who told you he was a specialist of Hi Std pistols? Anyone you know used him for this? If he indeed is a specialist in Hi Stds I certainly would not mind sending him my Victor to get the feeding straighten out. I have his video on High Standards and he glosses over the magazine adjustment, only saying the front lips must provide a bit of drag on the bullet nose. Be carefull anyway because a hard slam of the slide on the rim of a live cartridge can set the cartridge off (unlikely but possible in the extreme).ĪGI's Bob Dunlap is a High Standard expert? He is most certainly a master gunsmith but I had never heard him to be a specialist in High Standards (?). Don't try to cycle the gun at home on the bench with live ammo and the firing pin still in the gun.

Try that first but do it at the range as shooting the gun is different than operating the gun by hand no matter how fast you move the slide.įor bench testing to get started at least remove the firing pin and the recoil spring if you can (recoil spring removal not really required it just makes it easier but it is difficult to remove and replace). That has not worked out for me but I may have other problems with my Victor. One source I used stated that the magazines should have the front lips set up so the cartridge just drags on the lips as the cartridge leaves the magazine and that no other adjustments are necessary, usually.

Your HD was a predecessor to my Field King and should have the earlier magazine, I would think (?). You may already have 'one foot in the grave' with those magazines, so to speak. My guess would be that your magazines are Triple-K aftermarket because my Field King from the 1950's has the earlier magazine with two sets of front lips that are a much better design. Most suffer from lips that are not hardened and don't hold the tune.Īt Rimfire Central they also recommend replacing the mag spring with an extra power Wolfe mag spring. The magazines that came with the guns originally are much better made than the common after market ones. Go to the link below and state your problem exactly and someone there will guide you to a posted procedure for tuning the magazines:īut here is some preliminary information: I too am having feeding troubles with a Hi Std but mine is a Victor.

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