Hi Standard Revolver

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d_mikey

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Hi all!

Was at a local gun shop yesterday. Unfortunately, he was pretty busy packing up for a gun show and arguing with his wife over paper work. LOL.

Anyway, under the counter was a Hi Standard revolver, .22 caliber, with what appeared to be a 3 inch barrel. The frame was obviously aluminum, by color. (It appeared to be unfinished or lightly finished aluminum.) The cylinder and other parts were blued. Unfortunately, because of the tension in the shop, I really didnt push to look at it too closely. The price was only about $100. Any opinions on the quality of these guns? I've been wanting a .22 revolver, and its been haunting me ever since.

Mike
 
I have a High Standard "double 9" that I bought .... jeezzzzzz .... 30 some years ago and it looks like a piece of ####. It has .22 and .22 Mag cylinders and with open sights it will shoot sub 2 inch groups at 25 yards with either cylinder. I used it for many years on a trapline and for coon hunting. I think new it was like $60. The best $60 I ever spent. I just can't part with it. It is handy, light and accurate. I can't ask for more regardless of the price tag. It has had a heck of a lot of rounds through it and it just keeps on going.
 
It might have been a Sentinal, I know they made them in short barrels. I have a 6 inch model. It is a very good shooter, not my most accurate gun, but very good. They were made to shoot .22 short, long, or long rifle. For some reason the finish on them wasn't the best. But don't let that fool you, they are nice guns.
 
Thanks for the responses. It sounds like I am going to have to go back out there and take another look. I really didnt want to spend the money right now, I just spent a ton on my car. But for some reason , I just have to have that .22 revolver......
 
High Standard

I have a High Standard Sentinental that I bought in 1957. It has a three inch barrel. It has been as abused as any gun could be, and has always shot high and to the left. I fixed that at the range the other day with a hammer and brass rod. Now it shoots to the right. The silly little thing is consistent, though, and I can't bring myself to get rid of it.
 
The sentinels are good kit guns. High standard also made single action look alikes that were double action. In the 70's they went to underlugged barrels, and satin nickle finishes on some of them, and added .22 magnum chamberings. These models were not as well received, and I would stay away from one of them.
 
Did it look like this?

sentinel_1.jpg


This is a 3" that was made in 1959 from what I could find out on the web.
It is a pretty good shooter. For 100 bucks, you could do worse IMO.
 
Be very wary about taking it apart. High Standard made a lot of money at $5 a pop by reassembling Senitnels and Double Nines because their owners took them apart and found it was almost impossible to reassemble them without the factory jig. HS later took mercy on their customers and added a bushing to the action that would allow them to be reassembled by hand. I think the change was noted by a serial number prefix or suffix going from 100 to 101 but am not a hundred percent certain on that.
 
Thanks for the tip Jim, I don't think I will be taking that one apart. It's the older one that doesn't have the return spring for the ejectors. It it gets dirty, I'll just flush it out with solvent and blow it out with an air compressor.
 
I shot 3-balloon competition with a HS Sentinel back in the mid 60s. Nice little piece that fit me quite well. Gave it to ex-mother-in-law and now #3 son has it. Still shoots quite well. Has about 9,999,999 rounds through it. (Slight exaggeration. :D )

Pops
 
Thanks for the replies. Yes,the gun looked a lot like that one, plate shooter, at least in terms of coloration and grip shape. I think the ejector rod was shrouded in an underlug though....
Will have to wait until next week to take a look again. Sister coming to town, she hasn't visited in years...

Mike
 
I picked up a Sentinel snub a few months ago; round-butt, 2" barrel and bobbed hammer! I don't think the hammer was an aftermarket modification;it appears to be case-hardened, and has some very evenly spaced ("factory" appearance) grooves cut across the remaining "nub" of the hammer; it can be thumb-cocked for SA, without the old (and dubious) practice of "starting" it by pressing the trigger (as was once common with "bobbed" S&W hammers).

It's a nice-shootin' little kit gun, despite its age and lack of "glamour." :D
 
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