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Nice Target 22 Pistol
Ricci.Wright
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You sure get alot of gorgeous hi-standards through that shop Ricci.
Yes I do. This is the last one I have at the moment.
A little over a year ago I sold a Hi Standard Citation for an older neighbor. Looked like pretty much a carbon copy of that one.
1,013,013 shipped as a catalog number 9201 on 10/28/1959.
I see no acceptance date code. The early ones were on top of the frame at the front left of the mag well. This gun is before they commonly applied the acceptance date code.
Thank you Sir. The date code I see is Jd which is Oct. 1960??
Nice Piece
Due to the escalating price of ammo Marvin can no longer afford to shoot the Illudium Q36 Explosive Space Modulator and will probably be bidding on the High Standard.
Nice looking gun for someone who wants a good shooter and I bet it does well. Bob
Where do you see that date code? By October the design series had changed from the 102 series to the 103 series. My ship date is based on my microfilm copies of the ATF records.
The date code is supposed to be stamped Month- Year but it is fairly common for it to have the letters transposed or even one letter to be inverted.
JD would be October 1960 but I have never seen an acceptance date code on a pistol in the 50's of early 60's.
The acceptance date codes were implemented for dealing with the age of guns made for Sears guns which had no serial numbes that owld defind the ship date. This was really for a warranty time limit issue.
The earliest acceptance date code I have seen is EF May 1962. I have studied these guns for nearly 30 years and have about 350 High Standards in my collection. I have a copy of the original documents defining the acceptance date code dated judt before the date code marking was implemented. By early 1975 they stopped marking the acceptance date code on the pistols.
John this is what I was going by, and I could be completely wrong. It looks to me to be "Jd". It does look like a double stamp on the "d". Please remember this gun has been assembled from parts and while the slide is marked as a 102 series, I don't know about the frame which has a serial number of 1013013. Thank you, Sir.
Those letters are inprocess inspection stampings and are related to the frame alone.
The defining serial number is on the frame and the factory selected the slide for fit and numbered tio to the frame before the parts were polished and blued. This allowed the fitted parts to be reunited after finishing.
I recognised this as a parts gun. There are a lot of instances of high standard parts guns. Shooters are just looking for performanve and collectors cringe. I have a few parts guns from my early collecting efforts.
While a collector now, I once shot most of my guns. I currently shoot a slant grip Victor. The only ones I have not fired are my High Standard 9mm T-3's.
Catalog number 9201 was the 6.75" Sport King
Thank you Sir.