Hi standard double nine posse

Looks like Numrich sometimes has barrels in stock, though not right at the moment. Take a look at this page from time to time to see if they've gotten one in. From the diagram there, the barrel looks like it's pressed and pinned into the frame, so shouldn't be a big deal for a gunsmith.

That's a neat gun, does it shoot well for you?

here is a pic of my HS Marshall, I bought it new in 1973, only made a couple of years, it has the 5.5 barrel and appears pinned in. probably have over 5k rds thru it, my favorite handgun. I agree the posse looks funny with its short barrel

I don't know the answer to the original question, but I'll show a picture of my old W-104

Here is a W-100 from 1957, my Dad bought it new. Barrel is pinned and driven out left to right on mine.

I think those old "Western" Double Nines were/are cool guns. I would buy one at the right price even though I have no particular need. I recall admiring them as a kid.

I have a HS Durango W-103.



The 3.5” guns are not as common as the 5.5” guns.
But think about this. If you buy a used barrel and then have a gunsmith install it, you would spend about what it would cost to buy one of the new Diamondback Sidewinders.

There is a 5.5 inch barrel on GB for 54.95.

Aren't High Standard revolvers out of production and inching into the highly collectible class?

Carl N. Brown said:

Aren't High Standard revolvers out of production and inching into the highly collectible class?

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They are out of production, but I doubt they have any collectability yet. I've seen them for sale for less than $200.00. My Dad paid $59.00 for his in 1957 or early 58. The W-100 doesn't even have a return spring for the extractor star, so you have to remember to push it back into the cylinder before closing the action. You can see the vertical line on the recoil shield from forgetting to push it back. This was fixed on the later models.

Zygodactyl said:

They are out of production, but I doubt they have any collectability yet. I've seen them for sale for less than $200.00. My Dad paid $59.00 for his in 1957 or early 58. The W-100 doesn't even have a return spring for the extractor star, so you have to remember to push it back into the cylinder before closing the action. You can see the vertical line on the recoil shield from forgetting to push it back. This was fixed on the later models.

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the problem with collectability is only us old farts know what they are, the younger guys have no idea unless an older relative had one. its just like collecting depression glass, only the older generations know what it is.

Back before Florida had police standards Auxiliary Police could get kind’a wild.

Several of Dad’s compadre carried .22 LR revolvers. His best bud from the year after High School carried a Sears and Rared Back version of the HS Double nine.

Dad initially carried an RG .22 Magnum SA, he and Papa ( his Father in law) turned him a night stick on Papa’s wood lathe

Every town had it’s own uniform to no state or even County Standard (each county had its own Sheriff’s deputy uniform) even with in departments equipment seemed all over the board.

It was only after some late 1960’s rioting brought in the State police and the “Feebs” (FBI) that the auxiliary was made to buy .38 Spl -and retire the .22s Many of us teen aged boy children of auxillery men benefited greatly from this!

A buddy of mine at 14 got a 5.5 inch(?) Double nine and we shot it a-bit. Embarrassed by how we shot it then, but a different time and age.

we established that the accuracy of the HS revolvers was sufficient to shatter many now collectable pop bottles, dug from old trash middens condiment bottles, and abandoned power pole insulators… all of which I wish I could offer for sale today.

we shot the HS mostly single action as the DA tended to fight back. Still the occasional three shots DA “burst” was fun.

one thing about my buddy’s and Dad’s Buddy’s HS Double Nines I can say….. they helped me decide on a Ruger RST 4 for my own first new hand gun!

They were a lot of fun though….

-kBob

Carl N. Brown said:

Aren't High Standard revolvers out of production and inching into the highly collectible class?

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They are long out of production, although there was a thread recently about a company with plans to revive the design. And quite a few people who put them up for sale on GunBroker seem to think they are becoming highly collectable. Whether they are right or not, I couldn't tell you. "The value of a thing is what the thing will bring."

This is the thread about the proposed new version. The thread started in late October 2021: https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/diamondback-sidekick.896807/

well Here is the JC Higgens that belonged to Dad’s best buddy.

When his Buddy passed the widow invited Dad over to retrieve borrowed tools a s books and when Dad had his stuff she told him to look over her husbands guns and take one. Likely because of their shared Police Auxiliary experiences, including two nights of riot duty, Dad selected this gun.

When Dad passed it came here.

I first saw it in 1963 when we lived next door to the original owner in town. As a Crum snatching yard ape I was impressed by its Cowboy Look. Shoot Gene, Roy, or maybe Frog or Pat at least, might have been proud of that!

Feel guilty that I have done nothing but whipe it off since I got it. Plan to in the near future.

After my research this week thanks to this thread I was startled to find it has the “rare” checkered black grips that seem to indicate first year production.

As it has the tell tale little scratched line on the recoil shield I seems to have never had an ejector return spring, again another sign of early production

I looked for the W number to see what model number it was and it does not have one, indicating it was from the first batch out of the factory before there was a new mod in design and they started w marking guns.

Most sources indicate the guns were released in 1958, yet according to the serial number and H-S numbers chart this gun reciever was made in 1957 about 2/3 rds into the range that year.

Guess I will never k ow if he bought it new in 1958 at Sears ( He would have still been un marrried then, the only one in Dad’s gang to not have a wife) or picked it up used or from old stock before I saw it and played with it in 1963.

The holster is a Buchimer BPM-23 and no idea about its age. The belt loop has a snap to allow one to put on the holster with out unthreading the belt.

I picked up an HKS HR-22 speed loader for this nine shot but have not tried it yet.

I hope to shoot it a bit this year.

So I guess this old Auxiliary Police “war horse” is joining The Double Nine Posse.

Let’s Ride!

-kBob

HR 22 speed loaders work fine but they do not push flush with the back of cylinder because of the length of the cylinder pin.