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My first Hi Standard
Ingalls
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I finally got my Hi Standard today. You can see some work was done to it. The slide was machined down to clear the bridge sight, and serrations were cut into it. I know it looks a bit ugly, but I like it. I cant tell whether it is a 102 or 103 series. If you can see in the pictures, the sight is bent. I found one on ebay, but have no clue yet as how to change it. I want to get it to the range first and see how it shoots before I work onit or send it out. Im sure the value dropped as soon as it was cut up, but I bought it to shoot it, not display it. Any thoughts?
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Sorry for the bad pics, Im new to ImageShack.
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I'd bet it more than holds its own with pretty much any other 22 handgun out there.
This is a slant grip frame and only the military grip frames had the bridge sight. A bridge rear sight for a slant grip model was planned by High Standard but never produced. The slant grip slides thus never needed machining of the top surface and the military grip slides had different characteristics. Military grip slides were marked "--HIGH-- / STANDARD" where as the slant grip was marked "HI-STANDARD" as this one is.
High Standard used a locking pin for the main sight mounting rivet from the back of the slide that is not present on this gun.
The barrel from the 102 or 103 series would have the eagle logo. There were no bull barrels in the 102 series.
Sight removal is straight forward if it was installed like the factroy did it but if not it is hard to say how to remove it with a minimum of work.
If the one found on eBay was of Connecticut manufacture the switch might go smoothly but if it is a Texas rear sight, the dimensions and mounting method are different.