I finally got around to getting a photo light tent and have started to pull out a couple of my favorites. I've had this one for a few years and just never got around to photographing it.

It's a Hi-Standard .22 LR, with U.S. Property markings. It originally shipped to the "War Department" on August 16, 1944. The pistol came with the original box and has the number "25" painted in red on the side of the frame. My best guess is that it's a rack number. I've decided to leave it there rather than remove it.

Feel free to post pics of your Hi-Standards!

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Linda
SWCA #1965, SWHF #245

Tim

Love High Standards. I have two just alike. Don

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I don't have a pic of mine, sorry to say. It was my father's, he shot his first Jap with it. It looks like yours except a little rougher.

He traded a US Marine a bottle of rum for it.


Cat

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I find that Hi-standard interesting. When I hired into Lockheed as a guard back in 1965 five of us were hired the same day. One of the guys was a retired CID agent. (Criminal or Civilian investigation division for the army?). After I got to know him I once asked him what kind of gun he had carried on that job. That very 4" Hi-standard .22 LR is what he told me he had packed. At the time I kind of assumed him for a BSer or non gun guy as I just couldnt see a agent carrying that type gun, (unless to assasinate somone.) I guess I could have been wrong and jumped to conclusions.
I also knew Gary Francis Powers as after he was released from russian prision he came to Lockheed for awhile and test flew our TR-2s, a later version of the spy plane of the older U-2 that he was shot down in over russia. I belive he had been issued a woodsman with a silencer. Made sense to poach chickens with etc if he had to live off the countryside, However he was captured by farmers with pitchforks soon as he hit the ground.
I own this similar HDM with the long barrel. It is a "blood gun".

This mornings High Standard,
lost sleep.....

D.G.

But I like to take my chances.

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Nice High Standard, is that a G.I. High Standard Holster?

Tracy,

I really don't know... I've read somewhere that some military models were used with the m1911 holster.. (?).

This one is stamped on the back:

122
HI ST 6 1/2 B

It's pretty utilitarian looking, no frills, with a wide belt loop opening on the back. It sure has a "military" look to it.

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Linda
SWCA #1965, SWHF #245

I own an HD Military, a nice pistol. Only thing wrong with it is the trigger pull is so light....must use extreme care when shooting. Something is just not quite right with the trigger mechanism.

I had a friend, some years ago, who had a Viet-Nam bringback 4 or 5" Hi-Standard.22 with a suppressor that was ostensibly a CIA or SOG gun. I got to fire a few rounds with it one time at a range. Very interesting weapon.

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CTR2 68-72

Here is my High Standard. You did not say no revolvers. The first gun I ever bought It cost 67.00 new. I still have it.

I used to have a US marked Model B . This one is a commercial model .

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I admire these guns, tho I don't have one. How do they compare in quality to the Colts (Woodsman, etc.) of the same era?

And to the poster who's dad "shot his first Jap" with his, why was he using a .22? Must be a story in there. Only reason I can think of would be because it was silinced and he was trying to keep it quiet. Maybe your dad was doing some scouting or such? Just doesn't seem a likely weapon for an active battlezone....


I have read they were issued to the OSS in WWII for quiet work, I assume silenced. Or maybe with subsonic rounds? And I've also read of similar use in VN.

Nice pictures, by the way. Very nice!

Say, BlackAgnes, who is the holstermaker?

Ono,

My dad was a merchant marine. They were in port one day near an island that the Port Catptain said "Has no Japs on it." They kept seeing some sort of movement in the jungle but couldn't tell what it was, so the Captain dispached a scounting party. My dad was one of them.

They got ashore and made their way inland a bit. My dad was armed with the H-D and a Winchester M-1 carbine. He said that he saw a small Jap start standing up about 25 yards in front of him with what looked like a broomstick in his hands.

Not wanting to cause a big rucus, he just drew the H-D and put three rounds in his chest. (The pistol is only rated for regular .22 LR, what is called 'subsonic' now. I don't think that Hi-Speed ammo had been invented before WW II, but I could be wrong.)

It was a Japenease soldier he had killed, about 15 years old and the broomstick was an anceint single barrel 12 gauge.

His pistol was not silenced. It was issued to the Marine corp and looked just like the original poster's. No idea why such a piece was military issue, but it was. They do compare well to the Woodsman, esp as far as accuracy goes. When I got the pistol after many years of neglect (by my uncle) it wouldn't shoot any better than about three inches at an indoor 65 foot range.

I fire lapped it with about a dozen rounds just to get the miniscule rust particles out of the bore. Then I took it back to the range and with the same box of ammo shot a magazine into three quarters of an inch. Good gun.


Cat


Cat

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Thought we just did a HS thread?

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Linda
Very nice, I have never seen a US marked HS with that short of barrel. Several years ago I had one that had a matching US marked suppressor similar to the rig Gary Powers had when he was shot down

Here's one I've owned for a few years,I've heard they are scarce.They fire shorts.

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I just bought a US issue H~D but with wrong grips. Anyone out there have a spare set of the Black grips that are proper for the H~D Military?

I have a friend who's father was pretty high in the original OSS...and a later Letter agency. He had one of those things with a suppressor. He told me he carried it in Europe. Never said when actually. That man could speak 6 languages and to be honest was one of the most cold blooded men I ever met. Even worse than my father in law. He let me shoot the gun and it was fairly accurate even with the suppressor. Don't know what happened to it after his death. For all I know his son has it still...Which in itself is a kinda scary thought! I had a fellow try to trade me one like the OP had posted pics of. I declined. Wanted too much