Description

Good to very good used High Standard Sentinel Deluxe model R107. $sale pending

Circa 1967. In good shape with some dings and handling marks. A couple of spots of finish loss (see photos). I ran a few rounds through it and everything functioned as designed. The DA is pretty heavy.

The High Standard company was founded by Swedish immigrant Carl Gustav Swebilius who got his start in the gun business by working for Marlin as a machinist and later a gun designer. He also spent a little time at Winchester before starting High Standard Manufacturing to make parts for other gunmakers.  He borrowed some money from friends to buy the assets of the Hartford Firearms company. Between selling Hartford pistols and improving them, High Standard became a manufacturing company. It’s interesting the moniker attached to the company was always High Standard, yet the firearms were always branded as Hi Standard. Hi Standard semi-automatics were sought after for competition and the revolvers found their place in the market as reasonably priced .22s suitable for teaching kids to shoot, keeping varmints away from the chickens and vegetable garden on the farm and just general fun shooting.

The High Standard Mfg. Co. was officially founded in 1926 and in 1932 it moved to a bigger plant in Hamden, Conn., where production began. High Standard’s production over the years has been vast and has a reputation for both reliability and accuracy. Over time, it mainly produced handguns, including plinkers, target guns, long and short barrels, as well as serious competition pieces. If you’ve ever heard the term “space gun”, odds are good that they were talking about High Standard.

Here is a good online article about the Sentinel revolvers.

https://unblinkingeye.com/Guns/Sentinel/sentinel.html