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Hi Standard R 103 22LR revolver

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Just bought a nice used Hi Standard R 103 22LR revolver. A check of the serial number indicated it was built in 1961. Original price was $39.95. I paid $150 plus 8.25% tax. It holds 9 rounds. The cylinder face is counterbored, the rounds seat flush and the firing pin strikes the rim of the round with a small groove machined so that any hot gas/pieces of shrapnel can exit the cylinder gap against the face plate of the shroud. I have shot it and it is pretty accurate for a plinker. The designer was Ross Sefried... he worked for Bill Ruger for years after leaving Hi Standard and was instrumental in designing the 22LR Ruger rotary magazine for the 10/22.

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Got a High Standard Sentinel R-100 3" at a Pawn shop years ago.




Constant companion fishing or rifle/shotgun/bow hunting ever since.

GALCO IWB holster.




GR
My son and I were in Kansas last season deer hunting. I found a pawn shop there and they had that exact model there. Great condition, action tight, everything I love. By the time I paid the price shipping and FFL fee's I could have bought something nicer.
I do like that.
 
#10 ·
Baton Rouge has an Annual 50% Off all Pawnshops wknd.

Marked $250, marked down to $125. Problem was, the bore looked almost rusted solid.

Told the Armorer that it was just goin' to be a snake-gun anyway, so I'd take it if he could clean up the bore. He ran solvent brushes and a patch or two, and got it looking like a muddy track.

...then he said he would give it to me for $75. I bought it.

Took it home and cleaned the bore half to death - no improvement. Then I got the idea of running a steel mil 5.56mm bore-brush through it... once.

Pristine bore.

:kilt:

Turns out that it was fouled w/ a polymer/pulp substance, maybe old grease/oil and drawer dust.

Best $75 I ever spent.




GR
 
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A version of the double nine was my second handgun, about age 14. I would not even try to guess the number of rounds through it. I haven't shot it in a while, but I still have it.

To tell how times have changed, I made a set of walnut grips for it in high school shop class. Each morning during the project, I would get on the bus, hand the cased revolver to the driver. Arriving at school, he would hand the case to me and I would drop it off at the principal's office. I would pick it up at the principal's office and take it to shop class to work on the grips, then drop it off after class. Reverse at the end of the day, repeat the next day until the project was done. Of course, this was all worked out with parents and principal beforehand, and no ammo allowed at school. One day when I went to the office to pick it up, the principal had it out examining it. Today this wouldn't happen, but it did in about 1973.

The principal's predecessor probably wouldn't have allowed it, nor likely his successor. He was a great guy. I once had my pocket knife taken by my history teacher, who gave it to the principal. Not because I had a knife at school, but because I had it out during class. Different times. For a few weeks, the principal would see me in the hall, and take out the knife. He'd say " I really like this knife." One day he offered me $5 for it and I took it. Through the years, when he'd see me, he'd say, " I still have the knife."

I sang at his daughter's wedding. At the rehearsal dinner, when we opened the wedding party gifts, mine was that old red bone Case XX, with the main blade worn down to a needle.
 
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I have a double nine frontier model that was my first handgun ever. My father gave it to me when I turned 14. I have put so many 22lr's through this thing I can't even imagine the number. Still shoots great. Of course I also have a custom built quick draw holster made for it at local saddle shop back in the sixties.
 
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Nice, Bill. I have 3 of these High Standard revolvers. A 107 Sentinel that serves as my wife's home defense gun(She does not like recoil), a 103 Sentinel round butt version as her car gun, and a 104 Double Nine for me. I really like these High Standard revolvers, and I wish someone would bring them back. I feel they would sell well. And WOW, have the prices on these things gone up! Look thru the online brokerage sights, I have seen 1 Double Nine w/ the box listed at $795(Good luck with that, Lister...lol!) I have noticed that the 103 round butt Sentinels have also gone crazy, price wise. High Standard didn't make a ton of them.
Anyway, these revolvers are nice shooters and just plain accurate. I always liked High Standard's products(The old High Standard!) and the 9 shot .22 series are just great.
As a side note, many years ago, I bought a Sport king used from a buddy, and after 10's of thousands of .22 rounds, shot it literally to death. I sure did like that pistol, but good clean used ones are too pricey anymore.
 
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