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A friend of mine called a couple weeks ago and told me that a friend of his mother in law had some guns that had belonged to her father and wanted to sell some of them. She wanted to start with a pair of High Standard .22s. The first one is an H-D Military model in pretty good shape with a little holster wear.
They were both heavily oiled up so in need of a bit of cleaning, but looking pretty good.
Serial number places it in 1948. The other one is a First Model Field King. I'll be able to pick that one up later this week.
Going to take it to work with me tomorrow and stop by the range between appointments for a quick test fire.
jb
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Those HD-MILITARY's were only made for a few years after WWII (mine was made in 1947), and are GREAT shooters !
The only caveats would be to beware of cracking the upper frame next to the magazine well, and be aware of the special requirements involved in adjusting the rear sight.
Please refer to this HS instruction sheet prior to attempt any rear sight adjustment, for all is not as it seems:
That is one fine pistol, a smooth shooter. Reckon you can get some tight groups with it. In 1958 I bought the Sport King with a 4" barrel. Got a hardware store in Salinas, California while at Fort Ord for 35 dollars. That was the best shooting .22 pistol I ever had.
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An HD Military was the first Hi Standard I ever owned, and the pistol I started out with when I first shot in Bullseye matches. I later moved on to a Supermatic Citation, and eventually owned 3 dozen Hi Standards. I think they're the finest semiauto .22 pistol ever built! Probably why they didn't survive when everyone else started making cheap .22's!
Cool ! Never had one that old did have a nice LNIB Trophy ML series for awhile . And another I think it was called a Flite King aluminum frame and only shot 22 Shorts . Did pick up a pretty nice circa 1967 Browning Challenger 6 1/2" about three weeks before Xmas We have a circa 1973 Browning Medalist at the shop I want in the worst way but the consignor is asking several C notes more then I'm willing to give , guns about 98% with all the papers weights and the tool .
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That rear sight on an HD is the weak point in those guns. The little detent pin on the side gets weaker over time and will allow the sight to tilt forward or back as the slide works. It drove me nuts at first, until I figured out why groups kept going up and down. I took it apart and put more tension on the pin and it stopped. Eventually I D&T my barrel for a red dot, as everyone else was shooting them, and it allowed for more accurate shooting. But mine wasn't as nice as yours, so not a collector piece. If it was, I'd never have added any holes.
This post inspired me to get my sport king out and ogle it some, not shot it in a while.
I traded for a medalist years ago, as long as all the screws were tight it shot very well but for some reason it always loosened up, traded it off on an M1A...but the heck did I trade the M1A for?!
Stopped by the range today for a Very quick test fire. I loaded both magazines with Browning HPs in the truck and trotted over to the pistol range. Plinking at a couple of suspended bowling pins the HD shot a little high but not unexpected with the high velocity ammo. I had two FTFs one in each mag that I gotta figure was due to the 5 degree temps and it was really oiled up and probably still pretty gunked up in there. I'll get by the indoor range when I pick up he other one and do a proper range report.
jb
jasonB " Another Dirty Yankee"
" Tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?"
I've got one of those!...Mine has a shorter barrel but is aa late 40's/early 50's HD Military.
My pistol is somewhat picky about ammo...but works perfectly with Federal standard velocity lead bullets which is what I've read these were designed for.
I sold all of my Hi Standard collection, except the Supermatic I competed with. It's still one of the most accurate .22 pistols I've ever owned. Even my Beeman Unique DES 69 couldn't outshoot the Supermatic, and it was a high end target pistol!
My Father's Hi-Standard HD-Military was the first firearm of any kind I ever fired. I was 6 yrs old. Dad would take me out to the West end of Broward county (FL), which USED to be wide-open spaces. We'd shoot into canal banks.
In later years, when I got into shooting Bullseye pistol, I "graduated" into a Victor. My Father, and the Victor are long gone...(as is any pretense of my being a Bullseye shooter) but I'll never let go of the HD.
Still enjoy plinking with it, as much for the memories as anything.
Thanks Dad.
Nice pistol. I have my father's four incher. He traded a Marine on Guadalcanal a bottle of rum for it. The Marine hated it.
My dad shot his first Japanese with it, so it's sort of important to me.
It would only shoot about a three inch group at 65 feet (indoor range) and my dad said it probably had little tiny bits of rust in the bore. So I fire-lapped it and the next time out with the same box of Federal match it went into 3/4 of an inch. Happy happy.
He told me that Hi-Speed ammo was invented after the pistol was made and to never fire any in it.
We have a circa 1973 Browning Medalist at the shop I want in the worst way but the consignor is asking several C notes more then I'm willing to give , guns about 98% with all the papers weights and the tool .
