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February 15, 2009
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There's people saying this gun was made by Dan Wesson:
http://www.auctionarms.com/search/displayitem.cfm?itemnum=7756868
I have my doubts due to the design. Anybody have info regarding this? Thanks
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January 24, 2009
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I do know that High Standard was involved with DW a bit in the early years. There's an article around here somewhere, that tells a bit about the relationship.
If I recall, HS made the sights & maybe did some bluing for a while for DW. I'm not for sure on that though, so don't hold me to it.
Part of the relationship in that article I really forget about is why High Standard ended up making some Porkchop .357 guns that have obvious DW influence. This is one of them, wish I had a larger pic...
Anyway, I think that gun is where the similarities end.
The Crusader looks like a larger version of their .22 Sentinel models to me, so I really think that it's High Standard's design.
December 17, 2008
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There was "cross production" between the two companies. If I remember correctly, Hi Std manufactured the first Dan Wesson revolvers.
I'm fairly certain that Dan Wesson also manufactured for Hi Std. - we'll need someone to confirm this though, I don't have models or years recorded anywhere.
February 2, 2009
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I don't know about the 44, but a friend of mine in 1985 had a High Std in 357mag and his barrel interchanged with my 15-6. His supposedly didn't have as removable nut, like the fixed barrel DW's, but it was loose when he bought it used so we went ahead and removed and checked the threads with mine; his barrel threaded on mine and my barrel nut worked on his, so I gave him a DW barrel nut and later he added a few DW barrels to his 6" HS barrel. The HS barrel looked like a DW light unvented barrel except the front sight was fixed. The grips were interchangeable also.
January 22, 2008
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Guys,
Here's some information I found on the Not Purfect site:
The new company initially had no production facilities. Production of the early guns was contracted out to the High Standard company. Eventually, Dan Wesson moved to it's own facilities located in a converted public school, located in Monsoon Massachusetts. This was a modern facility, for it's day, and was able to produce high quality firearms at a relatively low cost. The shop was also owned and run by gun enthusiasts, and was small enough that innovation, and variety were fairly easy to accomplish. High Standard continued to produce the design under it's own name for a time. The High Standard revolver had the styling, including the crane mounted cylinder latch, and the lockwork of the Dan Wessons, but without the interchangeable barrel feature. A large framed revolver was latter produced by High Standard, under the name of the Crusader. Though it's styling was quite different, the lockwork showed some of the influence of the Dan Wesson series.
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January 24, 2009
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I'm pretty sure that's the article (or post) I had read previously.
So, I wonder if the external nut Porkchop guns were made by High Standard...then by the time the nut went internal, it was DW at the reigns?
Stuff like this could maybe be answered by Seth.
February 15, 2009
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Thank you guys very much for the information. There's a thread over at THR regarding this subject here:
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?p=5486537&posted=1#post5486537
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