whats so great about High Standard revolvers?

[Spreadfire Arms]

I have heard they are great quality arms but i have no specifics on them. i took two High Standard Sentinel .22 revolvers in on trade this weekend. they didn't book very high but since i had heard of their name (a la not junk) i agreed to them as a partial trade. one looks like a satin nickel .22, 4" bbl, with an underlug. looks like a .38 except for the .22 cylinder. other one looks like an old S&W M&P Model 10, thin bbl, blued, 4", .22. both are sentinels, i forget exactly which models. they dont book for very high but im wondering if anyone could shed some light on them? they look like nice plinkers or something great to teach someone with. thanks in advance.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

High Standard automatics have a very good reputation -- some of them were of Olympic quality. High Standard .22 revolvers are all based on the same frame and lockwork, and are not regarded as highly as contemporary Smiths and Colts.

 

[sm]

For me...
The Blue Sentinel is quite sentimental. It was awaiting my arrival home from the hospital being birthed.. Age 3 I had to "help" Grandma shoot it. Dunno how many soda bottles at .02 I picked up to buy ammo, soda bottles starting paying .03, and my ammo went up in price. Before I was a teenager, that Sentinel stopped an immediate threat as the front door gave under the weight and force of brickbats...

All sorts of small game, targets, and who knows what else I shot with that gun...How many miles toted by foot, by bicycle, or in a vehicle...

Loaned to the fellow that sired me, stolen by a half brother and sold for dope.

They say you never forget your first one - nope, never have, never will.

It may not have been a Model 18, my mentors and such never talked down to me or that gun...instead it filled a niche at a price point. Mentors and everyone shot it...wanted to shoot it.

Joke was - the scuff marks, kick marks at the Mom&Pop store - were from me , standing one legged, and kicking the shelf to brace myself - as I reached for MY boxes of ammo...George always put boxes way back there in case all the ones up front were sold...his wife always kept some under the counter...never knew when that skinny kid would show up more soda bottles...

 

[kngflp]

SM

Nice to hear someone has had expierence with these. I posted a few days ago about the Hi Standard R 101, but no one responded, maybe if I had refered to it as a Sentinal someone would have.

Spreadfire Arms

What did they blue book for? My friends have one with a shorter, maybe 2" or 3" barrel. They describe it as having a purplish finish and ivory grips.I haven,t seen it but it is supposed to be in pretty nice condition. They saw the prices on the Hi Standard semi autos and were thinking they had somthing pretty valuable, but I found a couple on auction for under $100. I told them being the dork I am I could find somthing about it on the net but there really isn't that much info out there on them.

 

[P95Carry]

I would think SW might drop by - he is very familiar with the semi's and IIRC does not consider their revo line as being in the same league. More than that I am not able to say.

 

[Gordon]

I had a few Sentinels in my life. I just gave away a pristine 6" Delux model ; blued with walnut looking plastic grips(worth $200-225). It was pretty accurate , about like an S&W kitgun, but not a K-22! (9 shots are cool). However IF you have to work on one(and they ARE very durable) it is one heck of a bag of worms, being put together with pins instead of screws! I still have a later steel frame .22 magnum snub, that goes in those places where the gun is in harms way!

 

[Standing Wolf]

I would think SW might drop by - he is very familiar with the semi's and IIRC does not consider their revo line as being in the same league.

Heh. My reputation as an opinionated old (fill in the blank) precedes me, I see.

Seriously: High Standard's revolvers were often excellent plinkers; unfortunately, the company didn't offer them until it was in decline, and so didn't uphold very strenuous quality standards. The one exception was the Crusader, which, however, was produced in the dozens, not thousands.

 

[P95Carry]

I had a few Sentinels in my life. I just gave away a pristine 6" Delux model

''GAVE'' away - and why wasn't I told!??

 

[Spreadfire Arms]

if my memory serves me correctly the blued one i describe above booked out at $160 and the other one like at $210.....if i recall.

ok looking at my paperwork:

1 High Standard Sentinel Deluxe, .22LR, S/N 2123XXX, (blue)
1 High Standard Sentinel MK I, .22LR, S/N S48XXX (satin nickel)

he got $350 trade value out of it.

 

[BluesBear]

They are suprisingly solid little guns. I often see them around here wearing the J.C. Higgens trademark from Sears.

The one thing many of them have in common is the scars on the left side recoil shield. The extractor wasn't spring loaded so it was very easy to dig it into the alloy frame if you weren't careful.