my new arrival and its friends

[frimsure]

MY NEW ARRIVE AND ITS FRIENDS

[RogueTS1]

Nice set of pistols.

[bigwheel]

Fine looking arsenal.

[G50AE]

That's a realy nice 'family picture". 

[top dog]

That High Standard,what year/model???
Looks like a Flite-King from the late 50s?

                                          Top Dog

[MR_22]

I like the High Standard autos, although I've sold mine. I still have a revolver, though.

I LIKE the new arrivals in the middle.

[bigwheel]

High Standard was a valued name back in the day. Their target auto .22's were generally considered the cats meow on the rimfire metallic silhouette circuit. Anybody who could come up with a Ten X model was generally considered upper crust folks.  Or was that Browning? They made some good ones too. Then they come up with the logical answer to the Ruger Single Six..which was the Double Nine.  Giant leap forward on the technology scale. I think they ruined their reputation with the crappy derringer. Thats when I swore of buying that brand anyway.

[MR_22]

High Standards still have a pretty good following today. My dad bought a Double Nine in about 1970 or so. Maybe it was earlier, I dunno. I used to shoot it all growing up. Always figured I would inherit it, until it was stolen from his second wife's house about 5 years ago. I still blame his second wife for it, who turned out to be a... well, never mind. Let me just say that I think she was involved in its disappearance and leave it at that.

I do still have the 40-year-old belt and the magnum cylinder. The bonehead who took it just grabbed the gun from the holster. Took his Colt Mustang Pocketlite, too. I have a different gun in the belt now, but it's not a High Standard.

[boone123]

I still have some High Standard Trophys, one that I ran over a 100,000 rounds through a few years ago shooting at paper targets.
I don't shoot them much anymore. They are so easy to shoot accurate that I get bored  They are still some of the greatest guns I have ever owned. I took one out the other day and ran about  100 rounds through it. Put it away and finished the day with about 300 rounds through an old Smith  K-22 shooting it double action.   I parted with a Browning Medalist to buy that first Trophy, and have no regrets, but the Browning is probably worth almost twice what the Trophy is worth today. The old tradeoff thing again...

[bigwheel]

Yeppers...seems like everybody  had a good target model back then. Wonder why John B. had to invent the .25 ACP because he could not figger out how to make a .22 shell cycle through the innards of an auto loader? Very puzzling. Great minds apparently think different than some others. Don't be wasting any fodder. The Guv'ment liable to be n root shortly. Who knows?

[frimsure]

the answer to your questions top gun is that its a sport king. as for the year i have no idea.

[MR_22]

I think there's a website somewhere that helps you find High Standard dates of manufacture by serial number. It's been a while since I looked at it, though.

[G50AE]

My "family picture" would like someone had perfected cloning as it would have mostly Glocks, which all look the same.

[frimsure]

well that's not a glock. it's better!!!! it's a m&p 40c.  got to love it. it's a tack driver. i will look for that website for the high standard!!!!

[top dog]

Frimsure,
Back in the 60s,High Standards pretty well ruled the firing line for the National Match Course. They were darn accurate right out of the box and some pistolsmiths such as Jim Shockey even tweeked them some more.

As far as the Sentinel revolvers,they were pretty much ahead of their time and had factory supplied extras such as chamfered forcing cones and a superior lock up only offered on custom guns.

In the early 70s,High Standard,Outers and Sierra bullets were taken over by a comglomerate called The Leisure Group (I think) and they pretty well dug HS right into the ground. Fortunatley Sierra was able to bail out before they were taken under.

Keep you eye out for used Sentinels and try to get one if you can as they are really nice.

                                                                                                 Top Dog

[MR_22]

I like the Sentinels. I've had a couple. You have to watch the 101 model, because it didn't have a spring to return the ejector rod, and if you weren't careful, you would mar up the side plate when returning the cylinder. They fixed that for the 102 model.

Good little revolvers. I ended up selling mine, though, to buy other guns. I sold the 101 to my dad and then he passed soon thereafter, so I got it back, mostly because he bought it from me without his new wife's knowledge and she wasn't able to squirrel it away for her retirement fund.

[frimsure]

top dog thanks for the info on my high standard. i was looking around on the net for the web site to find out what year mine was made but no luck. i did find out that it looks like high standard is back in business. if you find that web site to find the age of mine let me know.

[MR_22]

top dog thanks for the info on my high standard. i was looking around on the net for the web site to find out what year mine was made but no luck. i did find out that it looks like high standard is back in business. if you find that web site to find the age of mine let me know.

Try this page for finding the year of manufacture for High Standards:

http://www.histandard.info/datapublic/serial/

[frimsure]

thanks i will be checking that today and let you know...

[bigwheel]

Ok somebody kindly direct me to where I can figger out what year my mini was made. I know it was either late 70's or early 80's but I am having trouble deciding. Thanks.

[frimsure]

ok top gun and MR_22 i looked over that web site and from what i can figure out my high standard was manufactured between 1975 and 1976. that is if i am reading the chart right...

[MR_22]

Ok somebody kindly direct me to where I can figger out what year my mini was made. I know it was either late 70's or early 80's but I am having trouble deciding. Thanks.

I don't think NAA has anything like that online. I believe you have to call them. Maybe Mr. Admin guy can help with that?

[bigwheel]

Wow thanks. I know them cute sounding girls in the customer service area is eager to talk to me yet again..most likely..lol.

[I]

I try to figure it out all online or here, rather than bug them. I do like the NAA girls, though. It makes me want to place an order. So knowledgable, so nice... 

[bigwheel]

Hey this could cause a person to consider an annual keep sake famil heirloom pictorial Calendar of the Girls of NAA. All the the other big operations have em huh? We have the NAA TEAM..in resemblance of the A TEAM and Mr. T. George Peppard etc.  No doubt somebody has a cutesy girl pal who could be strategically rendered G with precise placement of mini .22's etc. Big end of the year contest to fly in the celebrity judges to pick out the nicest ones. Prob get Jay Leno to be the MC..he fixing to be out of work seems like. This is sounding good to some no doubt.

[frimsure]

LOL im on board with the calender!!!!!! have the girls at NAA pose with a mini for each month. that would be cool. I wonder if the girls would go for it.

[bigwheel]

Woops..sounds like we have already lured up a gold digger on this deal. Who woulda thunk it?

[TwoGunJayne]

Nah, MDE did it! 

Just kidding, MDE. I like how you talk about gold. Be better watch what we say or the targeted spammers might start advertising something... weird.