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March 28, 2023
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I love older High Standard Revolvers Mark IV especially because they look like Python's. My collection of seven and counting! All in original boxes of course. They are really becoming very collectible these days prices are going up. I really want a Titan and a Western Auto nickel or a J. C. Higgins all made by High Standard!
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July 12, 2020
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Double posting???????
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March 28, 2023
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I said I put it in the wrong place. I can't figure out how to delete the first post.
February 16, 2016
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All you have to do is ask a Moderator or Administrator to move it for you.
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March 28, 2023
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This one is in the correct place. I deleted the pics and content from the other listing but thanks I will ask them to remove the other one.
December 3, 2015
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Nice family of HS. I don't collect them, or any particular brand for that matter. I have a HS R-100 .22 that is a great little revolver. Three inch barrel which is my weakness in revolvers. First of the series made in the mid 1950's and does everything a new and expensive .22 of any brand will do. I have two other HS. First one I purchased from a collector thinking I would do a 9mm conversion. That revolver ( Sentinel MK11) arrived in such nice condition with the box that I just could not bring myself to alter it. Never fired it. Found another ( Sentinel MK111 ) that I call the orphan revolver. It was modified to use a DW 14-2 barrel assembly. Over time I found the parts necessary to get the orphan back to it's own heritage as a complete HS Sentinel MK111.
Do you know if the grips ( white ones ) on that snubbie will fit the .22 in the top left of your photo? I have large ( wide ) hands and have often thought of trying to change the grips on my R-100.
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March 28, 2023
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I just looked the snubbie is different it's got a round butt and my regular sentinel has a square butt. I do know on ebay there are lots of sentinel grips and even someone making after market ones. By the way, Mark 11 & 111 was made by Dan Wesson and High Standard just stamped it with their name. It was sold for 2 or 3 years (1973 thru 1975 it was a Dan Wesson Pork Chop so your gun is really a Dan Wesson! if you look up Unblinking eye has a great history of the High Standard Sentinel and explains all revolver models from the 100 thur the 109 and then the mark series. The mark series I have (the ones that look like a python) Are High Standard guns still 9 shot in .22LR or .22 Magnum I have one .22LR and two .22 Mag including the nickel (it's not really nickel more like a silver parkerized coating).
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Dans Club
March 25, 2013
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The finest Revolvers HS made were the Crusaders. The special run of introductory guns were the only ones made. One of the most beautiful Revolvers ever made, in 44 mag and 45 colt. They were to make 501 of each but less were actually made. Very interesting cammed hammer instead of a transfer bar. They are too beautiful to shoot but I did shoot a 45 to see what it was about.
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March 28, 2023
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I have seen them on Gun Broker they never sell. Most likely nobody knows what they
are and don't want to pay $2000 for a high standard. I thought of buying one but the price vs return is not there. Also the lie about there being 1oz of gold on the side everyone that's selling one states that but after looking into it I don't believe it's true otherwise people would be buying the gun and prying the gold dude off the side to sell. They do look great especially the engraved ones that only 50 I think were made (50 in.44 mag and 50 in 45lc) There has been one on GB for 2 months now (engraved) started out at $3000 nor at $1950 The non engraves one also been on GB for over 2 months started at $1500 now $1350 I will stick to my 9 shot .22lr models I really like them. Love the Mark series that have the Python looking barrel. Also my snub noise in nickel!
December 3, 2015
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Ole Dog said
The finest Revolvers HS made were the Crusaders. The special run of introductory guns were the only ones made. One of the most beautiful Revolvers ever made, in 44 mag and 45 colt. They were to make 501 of each but less were actually made. Very interesting cammed hammer instead of a transfer bar. They are too beautiful to shoot but I did shoot a 45 to see what it was about.
I remember visiting someone who was kind enough to let me see their Crusader. Decent guy with a hell of a collection!
Also has a bunch of cute little trees.
December 3, 2015
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Stmstan 445 said
I just looked the snubbie is different it's got a round butt and my regular sentinel has a square butt. I do know on ebay there are lots of sentinel grips and even someone making after market ones. By the way, Mark 11 & 111 was made by Dan Wesson and High Standard just stamped it with their name. It was sold for 2 or 3 years (1973 thru 1975 it was a Dan Wesson Pork Chop so your gun is really a Dan Wesson! if you look up Unblinking eye has a great history of the High Standard Sentinel and explains all revolver models from the 100 thur the 109 and then the mark series. The mark series I have (the ones that look like a python) Are High Standard guns still 9 shot in .22LR or .22 Magnum I have one .22LR and two .22 Mag including the nickel (it's not really nickel more like a silver parkerized coating).
Yeah, Massad Ayoob wrote a piece about the R-100. He was rather impressed. I think his opinion was that it is one of the best kept secrets in .22 revolvers.
On the grip, I think it's design was influenced by an early Colt "pocket pistol" or some such gun. I have no complaint on the grip but thought I might like to try something that would accommodate all of my wide hand.
Preaching to the choir on the HS / DW connection. Read my comment in the thread you participated in discussing "pork chop" DW's. One difference BTW is the sleeker rear sight used on the HS MK111 as opposed to the rear site on DW porkers. I kind of prefer the HS rear sight compared to the DW rear sight used on the pork chop models.
February 16, 2016
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Different Drummer said
Also has a bunch of cute little trees.
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Stinger said
Different Drummer said
Also has a bunch of cute little trees.
I must admit, that one flew over my head. 
I only have two High Standards so far, a MKII & III. One of these days, I hope to find a clean Crusader to add to the family.
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March 28, 2023
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Man those are nice. Every time I see a High Standard/Dan Wesson they seem to be in bad shape or people are asking way too much. I want one but will wait until it's correct. You can't really say these are High Standards I mean they are but all they did was get the guns from Dan Wesson and stamp their name on them. I guess High Standard had come on hard times by then and went thru bankruptcy a few times like Dan Wesson did. They made all those low cost guns for all those years and then gone! I do like the Mitchell Arms High Standard .22 Auto's also got my eye on a couple on GB. THey are going up up up in price also! PS I don't get the little tree's joke?
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Dans Club
March 25, 2013
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I bought my several Crusaders when they were in the $1000 range. Stan, you are right about the gold knight. He is gold plated. Still, they are unbelievably beautiful.
The DW 15-1 iis the HS rear sight. DW made a new rear for the 15-2s.
The little trees comment was a shout out to me. I have been doing Bonsai for 47 years. I rarely sell any and when I give them away it is a death sentence. I also have Cuttings Syndrome. Kind of like DWAS. Everything I prune I try to root. After 15 or 20 years a cutting can become a nice tree. Guns are easier, don't need twice a day watering, pruning or repotting. It keeps me young and fit though. And I hope it wards off Alzheimer's.
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