Price opinions on Hi Standard revolver

Way too high. It has an aluminum frame you know. Originally commissioned by Sears. It was designed to be a low end "tackle box" type firearm. The last one that came across my desk I got free when I bought a Colt Trooper from a private sale. I low balled the Colt and told him I was not interested in the High Standard. I guess he decided that he wasn't either and just threw it in. I sold it for $100.00. For $500.00 you can find something substantially better that will fit your daughter's hand. Look around hard before you drop any cash on this thing.

500 seems a pretty darn bit of coin for that.

I just picked one up for less that half that. A good bit less than half.

C

Yeah, well, people collect almost anything.

I have owned probably 4 or 5 HS Sentinels over the years.

Never kept one around very long.

None of the ones I had were half as accurate as a S&W or Colt.
And they are a nightmare to work on if they every need repair.

BTW: This one didn't get a single bid at the $385 starting price.
http://www.gunauction.com/buy/12166747/

rc

I bought one about six months ago for $185.00. Sold it a few months later for $200.00.

Your friend is asking way too much for that particular High-Standard. At the most maybe $250 for one that was like new with the original box and paperwork. To give you some price perspective two years ago I paid $400 for a S&W Model 34 .22LR revolver that was LNIB, which is definitely a step-up quality wise from a High Standard Sentinel.

I would keep looking for your daughter. Maybe a used Ruger Bearcat or Single-Six.

Maybe that was a starting point, and you two were supposed to haggle (a la current-day reality pawn shop shows)?


Anyway, as stated - not just high, but ridiculously high. I got my SP-101 last year before the panic for $499 + tax BRAND NEW. Yes, I was happy as a sand-eating clam.

Id pass on it.Sounds $200 at very desperate tops.For $379 u could get a cheap Carter Arms revolver

Actually, those were quite good guns and reasonably accurate; the barrels came from the same machines as the H-S target pistols.

I think one would be a pretty good beginner's gun, but the price mentioned, $500, is about $300 too high.

Jim

It's upside-down too!

He's asking for $500 and that seems grossly high to me, what say you all?

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That's not high. That's CRAZY!

I have a High Standard Sentinel. It's a cheap, barely adequate plinker. For $500 you could get your daughter a very nice used Smith and Wesson that's three times the revolver the HS could ever dream of being.

Rondog notes:

It's upside-down too!

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Yes, that makes them extremely hard to shoot accurately. For that much coin, you should be able to get a nice S&W, and it will probably be right-side-up as well.

I'd get a Taurus 85, a Ruger LCR, or a J-frame Smith & Wesson, for a new gun.
Or a Charter Undercover/Undercoverette.

I've had 5 or 6 Charter Bulldogs, one J frame Smith, and 3 Taurus 85s.
I've liked them all.

I disagree with all the nay-sayers as to this brand. They have some very nice looking models and can be very accurate. I have a .22 mag that is Colt like, in lock-up. As to this upside down gun, I say ugly and twice the price it should be.

They are actually pretty nice revolvers but not $500 nice. If it were like new in the original box then I would say $500 is getting close as the nickel finish versions are a bit less common however in my opinion the blued ones look better.

I would offer the seller $275 and negotiate to no more than $350, that seems to be the price range you are seeing these days on blued versions, the nickel version might be worth a bit more because they are less common. Keep in mind however that condition is everything and if the nickel finish is not in good shape then that can severely impact the value of the gun. The nickel finish looks pretty good in the picture you posted.

I bought one about six months ago for $185.00. Sold it a few months later for $200.00.

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I probably should have mentioned that I thought it was a really nice little gun. It was accurate enough that I couldn't tell if the gun was inaccurate, or I was just plain missing. In an Uncle Mikes nylon holster, it was just about as light as a feather. Perfect trail companion I thought. A fellow saw it, wanted it for his daughter, so I sold it. Nice gun though.

Have a nickel plated bobbed hammer, snub Sentinel original which has the excellent feeling birdeye grip. It is very accurate with .22 ammo that it likes.

I believe that Harry Siefried designed it using the solid frame assembly with pins for a lower cost assembly. Later Harry worked for Bill Ruger and I believe his designwork with the Sentinel influenced how the Security Six and Redhawk revolvers were constructed. Mas Ayoob speaks highly of them and gives the Sentinel its own chapter in his Greatest Handguns book vol. 1.

That being said, consistent with what other posters have said, $200-300 for one in good shape appears to be the going rate unless it is a rare variant such as the colored frames that High Standard briefly put out.

Rondog writes:

It's upside-down too!

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Funny story; I had a co-worker at another EMS station call me after I had faxed him a document to tell me he'd gotten it, but he snapped that it had come in upside down.

I told him to "place it on the small table by the fax machine, walk around to the other side of the table, and pick it back up. It should be right-side up then."

OptimusPrime said:

He's asking for $500

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... and it would be 'high' at 1/2 of that.

As per the "blue book" (which is also usually "high"), a 60% gun is $80, a 100% gun (as in "New In Box" as in "Does not Exist") would be $250