High Standard Double Nine?

ontarget said:

Anyone want to share some knowledge about these? I found one for sale locally today and checked it out.
Pretty cool being a double action but disguised as a single action. This one has faux stag grip on it,
Any ideas of a decent price for these?

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I'd buy it for $200 or less for noire display. The actions are not the strongest if you are gonna cycle it alot and I would imagine parts are getting scarce. That said all those inexpensive .22 hand guns of the period seemed to have white colored faux stags on them . They represented to the uninformed "cowboy" as seen in 1950s and earlier westerns where they shoot revolver all day long like a belt fed. I used to collect those Genre ., Iver johnson made a similar one and Harirngton and Richardson did also. The High Standard was the best of the bunch with that swing out cylinder and 9 shots. The Double Nine used an adaption of their Sentinel action which was well proven but not particularly robust in the long run .

If it’s in good shape, it’s worth up to $250.
I have a High Standard Durango, just another version of the Double Nine. I found it in a pawn shop that didn’t know much about them. I got it for $96 because the they said that someone had painted it. It’s a great little shooter.

ontarget

I believe High Standard used an aluminum alloy for the frame while the barrel and cylinder were made from carbon steel. For more detailed information regarding Double Nine production and model variations check out the website: unblinkingeye.com-The High Standard Double Nine and other Western-Style Revolvers.

I inherited one. It wouldn’t keep all 9 shots on a sheet of paper at 25 yards.

Way too high. I have had a half dozen of the "family" which includes the Sentinel, yours and others. Not long term durable, for the most part. Kind of TV cool if you remember stars shooting single actions double action. Two I had were, from the factory unfireable(factory long shut down). Sold for parts.

I bought a kinda rough finished one for 250 and I overpaid a bit. The gun I got though has the faux ivory grips in beautiful shape. I really wanted an ivory handled cowboy gun, and this one delivers. Mine is accurate and locks up like new. So, if the one you found is in good shape offer em half the price and start negotiating. But 425 is ludicrous...

ontarget said:

LGS is asking $425.00 for this specimen. I figured that might be high.

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Oh yeah way too high ! Find an S&W for that or a Ruger and it will keep on working and can be fixed !

I bought one a few years ago. Looked to be unfired or test fired and spent the rest of its life in a sock drawer until I got it. Paid $150 for it. Shoots okay but I've only put a couple of hundred rounds through it.

DA is what one would expect from a utility grade gun. Same as a H&R or Iver Johnson.

ontarget said:

LGS is asking $425.00 for this specimen. I figured that might be high.

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Does this LGS also have a Weed Dispensary incorporated into their business? It sounds like they might and someone’s been sampling the products.

I just went and looked at prices on auction sites for High Standard revolvers. It looks like lots of people are sampling marijuana products.

I had Double Nine as a teenager in the late 50s. I don’t remember much about it except it was stolen out of my car by an unidentifiable tow truck driver.

DDDWho,

I remember that guy, he got a Dan Wesson M15 from my car!

Or someone in that horrid chain of events after the death of my car did.....

Daughter has the JC Higgins marked Double Nine but we have not shot it much. It belonged to Dad's best buddy before he got it.

One of my buds at 15 had one and he insisted it was more accurate than my RST4 because his pistol was a revolver "and everyone knows they are more accurate than autos"...he was wrong but never admitted it

-kBob

I have one I purchased at my great uncle's estate auction. He camped and fished with it for years and I wanted something that I knew he used a lot. I paid $200 for it back in 02, which was $50 more than I thought it was worth but I wasn't just buying it for it's face value.

Mine's a great shooter though. The DA pull is horrid but the SA pull is crisp, measures 3lbs on my scale, and it can manage groups about 90-95% as good as my Mark I and Buckmark. Several years ago I was shooting with a couple buddies at my parents farm. One of the guys wanted to try out his new 1911. I don't remember what it was but he paid about $1500 for it and was pretty proud. Another guy had his USP. They were shooting at bowling pins at 25 yards, and were hitting one every 7 or 8 shots. I hadn't brought any centerfire handguns but finally pulled out the Double Nine, and knocked 8/9 over. That one I didn't knock over had wobbled, I must have hit it low. They decided to stop shooting handguns at that point and we moved on to clay pigeons!