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Post by mk70ss on Feb 14, 2023 11:36:03 GMT -5
 Just picked up this High Standard Sentinel with original box and papers. Looks like it spent it’s whole life sitting somewhere in that box. |
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Post by Encore64 on Feb 14, 2023 11:41:15 GMT -5
Wow!!! That's amazing for that old. I'm 58 and haven't held up nearly that well...
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Post by bushog on Feb 14, 2023 11:49:54 GMT -5
I was hoping for a photo of a Valentine…
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Post by ezekiel38 on Feb 14, 2023 13:51:56 GMT -5
Bro in law had one just like, he took a lot of Blue Grouse!
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Post by dobegrant on Feb 14, 2023 14:50:12 GMT -5
Very nice find, beautiful condition
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Post by oddshooter on Feb 15, 2023 10:27:32 GMT -5
i was crazed for hi standard 22's for several years. i fell in love with the model E.
I always wanted a sentinel from Hi Standard, but I never seemed to find the right one. This pic might get me started again in the quest.
That's a really nice example.
prescut
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Post by pacecars on Feb 15, 2023 10:32:38 GMT -5
I have my dads that is in the same age range but it looks a little rougher. I learned to shoot with that gun. It has had a lot of rounds out through it and killed a lot of squirrels, rabbits and some birds that probably shouldn’t have been shot. It was great when you could get a brick of .22s for $10
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Post by jeffh on Feb 15, 2023 15:48:54 GMT -5
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Post by hounddogman on Feb 16, 2023 0:04:18 GMT -5
That is very nice. Please excuse my ignorance but how is the cylinder released ? Pull the ejecter rod forward ?
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Post by mk70ss on Feb 16, 2023 10:37:08 GMT -5
That is very nice. Please excuse my ignorance but how is the cylinder released ? Pull the ejecter rod forward ? Exactly. |
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Post by jeffh on Feb 16, 2023 11:17:15 GMT -5
That is very nice. Please excuse my ignorance but how is the cylinder released ? Pull the ejecter rod forward ? Exactly. I referenced your thread, and that picture of the NICEST one of those I've EVER seen in the thread about Charter Arms:
Hard for mt to talk about one without talking about the other. That was a feature Doug McClennahan borrowed from High Standard when he came up with the Charter design. He had worked for Colt, High Standard and Ruger previous to going out on his own.
Some of the innovation in these now defunct guns survives as "DNA" all the way to Ruger's DAs, and now Smith, borrowing ideas Charter used in '64 and other had used before. The transfer bar was an Iver Johnson thing before Charter or Ruger latched onto it. It may go back even farther.
The fact that these design innovations are still in use today is testament to the viability of the engineering. Many of these features have been used to discredit the inexpensive revolvers, like the "two-piece barrels," which were once the dreaded, shameful "shrouded barrel" of the Target Bulldog so many made so much fun of. Now, everyone's doing it.
Not criticizing everyone for doing it NOW, but noting that these ideas were good then if they're good now.
Really, really neat guns.
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