This weekend during one of my shooting sessions, I decided to pull out my first pistol, a High Standard Sport King purchased for me by my father some 35 years ago or so. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed shooting that pistol.
Kind of nice use the same target for .22 and .45. Shoot a couple of mags with the .22 and then with the .45 acp.

I have probably have put thousands of round through beer cans, pop bottles and the like that I floated down the Pecos River (back then we were not too environmentally conscious). The pistol never saw a formal shooting range until about 22 years ago when I moved to Central Texas where I did not have access to family property and the like for target practice.
I don't even recall if I had to be of a certain age to buy my .22 cal ammo at Gibson's (family had a charge account and I would simply pickup a few boxes, tell them to put it on the family tab, sign the receipt and walk out). Those were the days.
As a bullet proof teen prone to doing stupid things, I even recall picking off a rabbit on the draw from the back of a pickup truck (several of us were rabbit hunting along one of our FM roads). Look back on that and I wonder how I am still here today.
But in any event, looked up High Standard on the web and they appear to be making a lot of stuff and the reviews are not that bad. I recall seeing a High Standard 1911 Officer's model at a store one time and thought it was a reasonably nice rendition (I don't do high-dollar, but I think I do pretty high quality). Their web site even has a reference to Interarms (the maker of my Walther PPK/s).
So what is the story on High Standard? Are they an importer or do they make their own guns in Houston? Are they viewed as quality guns?

From what I understand Houston makes new H.S.22 cal.pistols and they are now of the same quality of the old H.S..They do import the 1911 from armscor in the P.I. It seams that the owner has finally worked out the bugs in the mess of producing High Standard 22 cal pistols and is standing behind all of his H.S. products The H.S. Victor is a competitor of the S&W 41

Mitchell arms in Houston makes them, I got a stainless Citation with a 5" bull barrel about 1995 when I still had my FFL and the barrels from my original Hi Std inter change with the Texas gun overall a well done auto if you get one stay away from the red plastic mag bases as they will break, but CTD has new mags for 23.00 that work very well, an original Hi Std mag will be very high. Jeff

I'm still shooting my High Standard Victor that I bought used in 1983. I've been using it in a winter bullseye league since then. It is still capable of putting all of them in the X Ring, unfortunately, I am not.

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H Richard
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My first handgun was a DuraMatic that I bought new for $69 in 1972. I still have it and shoot it ever now and then.

after reading through the replies here and doing a little research, I thought I might consider adding a new generation Victor (or The Victor), but dang they are bit pricey, no matter what the age
A placed called The Armory something or another around Dallas had several High Standards, including a couple of NIB models, but were proud of them. It would appear finding another HS .22 at a "reasonable" price is about as difficult finding an older model .32 cal PPK/s at a "reasonable" price. It sucks not being rich (: