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    Anyone Here Own A High Standard AR??

    Checked out a pawn shop that was loaded down with AR's. Most of the big manfacturers could be found. I looked at a $1200.00 S&W M&P15 first then the guy handed me a M4 type AR with a $575.00 Price tag on it. The rifle was made by High Standard! The rifle looked very good and had a great trigger pull. does anyone out there own one of these rifles? If so how do you feel it stacks up compaired to the bigger brand name AR's

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    RE: High Standard AR

    CLHC, thanks for the threads about the Hight Standard AR. So far I'm seeing many good reports on the rifle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by traindriver View Post
    CLHC, thanks for the threads about the Hight Standard AR. So far I'm seeing many good reports on the rifle.
    I think you are seeing what you want to see. I read through those threads and saw no posts by anyone who had a high enough round count through the rifle to make a qualified statement of whether or not it is good. There were also a few bad things about them (non-chrome lined barrels, 1/9 twist). If you are going to be putting not very many rounds down range with it then you might be okay but I'd stick with more well known quantities if you plan on shooting very much.
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    Quote Originally Posted by traindriver View Post
    Checked out a pawn shop that was loaded down with AR's. Most of the big manfacturers could be found. I looked at a $1200.00 S&W M&P15 first then the guy handed me a M4 type AR with a $575.00 Price tag on it. The rifle was made by High Standard! The rifle looked very good and had a great trigger pull. does anyone out there own one of these rifles? If so how do you feel it stacks up compaired to the bigger brand name AR's
    Sounds like you are shopping at the wrong shop.

    Don't go for the el cheapo option. High Standard used to make excellent .22 pistols, but the closest the current company gets to the old company is the name.
    I'm no expert, but I took my CCW course at a Holiday Inn Express

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    I had never seen a high standard AR, learn something new everyday

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    Quote Originally Posted by TinMan556 View Post
    I had never seen a high standard AR, learn something new everyday
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    From what I remember, somebody in Houston bought the name and cranked out some AR's during the panic. Think they have got out of the AR business already.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Avenger29 View Post
    Sounds like you are shopping at the wrong shop.

    Don't go for the el cheapo option. High Standard used to make excellent .22 pistols, but the closest the current company gets to the old company is the name.
    I have several High Standard pistols, some old High Standard, some new High Standard, ALL excellent. Further, I lurk on Bullseye forums and can scarce recall seeing a criticism of new High Standard. In short, new High Standard is fully the equal or the better of old High Standard. Don't make up then spread malicious shit Avenger.

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    I don't know if they still make them but I'm betting they don' t make a lot of them. They may one day have some collector value.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Suwannee Tim View Post
    I don't know if they still make them but I'm betting they don' t make a lot of them. They may one day have some collector value.
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    A friend of mine used to write the High Standard section in the Blue Book and he once told me the only guns the old High Standard company made that will really ever have collector value are their pistols. I have several of their .22 revolvers and they are great but they are not collector stuff. I had a pretty rare mint HS .22 pump rifle that I couldn't give away at the New Orleans Gun Show last year.

    Since either they don't make them anymore or they don't make many of them, I'd assume that their AR's are lower tier. I just figured they were kind of regional since they're from Houston.

    I would not buy one speculating on collector value and I wouldn't buy one because there are too many top tier guns you can get now at good prices.

    But maybe it's just me...

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