I have been searching for this revolver for as long as I can remember--don't know why. It certainly isn't at the top of the collectible pile, but something about it speaks to me. I finally found this new-condition Natchez at a local gun store and bought it immediately. Call me crazy...


Tim

Crazy? Nope, you have good taste.

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We all have our odd "Grail guns", and that one looks near mint.

Clicking on the picture brought up a higher resolution pic, so that I could see "Hi Standard" on the barrel. Is that gun a variation of the Double Nine?

TomK--

Yes, it is. I also have a "Longhorn" western-style revolver. I think the basic lockwork is the same throughout the "Double-Nine" series.

Tim

I’ve always loved the Double Nine series. Yours is a beauty.

I just considered them swing-out single actions. I’m not man enough for the DA pull.

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Very nice, very hard to find Natchez. I look for High Standard Double Nines at every gun show I attend. You rarely see them. Last year at Tulsa I saw a near new in the box for the bargain price of $900.00. Not a bad price for an original $35.00 revolver. I found a Natchez in decent shape a few years ago at a garage sale for $150.00.

You have an outstanding example, congratulations.

Sweet little .22s. I gave these all to my son.

Double nine. My first handgun. A co-worker ordered it for me thru a variety store's catalog. $53.00. I shot it until the back end of the bbl got leaded up and would bind the cylinder when it got hot. At 17, and 56 yrs ago, I didn't know you could clean that off or take it to a gunsmith. traded it for my first marlin 39A. not a bad trade.

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Nice revolver. We all have weird grail guns.. For the longest time I hunted an H&R 504 in 32 H&R magnum of all things.. Now I'm hunting a nice original finish Mauser WTP II.. To each his own.

Yeah, like a Fox. Congrats!!!!

I have a regular Hi Standard, Double Nine. I let my wife shoot it and she liked it better than my 17-3! I think the grip fits her hand better. I bought for $60 about 20 years ago from Vance's in Columbus. They got it in a batch of guns from a Police Property Room. Like most Hi Standards, it shoots well. But mine looks like the finish was done in a third world country, it is in good shape but just plane ugly!

Ivan

Call us both crazy... The Natchez is the only one of those DA High Standard western guns that I would really like to own.

I can remember as a kid looking at GUN DIGEST and SHOOTERS BIBLE wanting one...

Bob

My first handgun was a HS Sentinel, which was and is a handy little revolver. I remember our across the street neighbor having a Double Nine, saw it in it's red box. Never knew him to shoot it and have often wondered what happened to it. He is still alive, and if I see him again I will ask.