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Offline mcwoodduck

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High Standard Supermatic Citation
« on: May 06, 2011, 12:51:12 PM »
So after 25 years since I would shoot one on the Valley Forge Pistol team.  I found one for a good price.
Fist time that having $ and a gun in the shop coinsided.
5.5" Bull barrel with the sights on a bridge over the slide.  The trigger was crisp with little creap and almost no over travel.
I am very happy and can't wait to shoot it after I pick it up o nthe 11th.
Pictures to follow.
I think I have a 22 LR addiction.
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Re: High Standard Supermatic Citation
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2011, 02:19:55 PM »
I picked my first Hi Standard target pistol in 1976 and ive been shooting it in BE matches ever since ! the only thing ive ever replaced are the springs.
  over the years i have picked up a few more examples of these fine pistols !
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Re: High Standard Supermatic Citation
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2011, 02:52:15 PM »
Its nice to own a pistol, that if you are off target, even a little bit, you know its you, and not the gun.  The pictured HS Victor, and my long gone S&W #41 were the two most accurate handguns I ever owned.  That Victor accounted for a lot of small game when I lived in CT.

R/E your addiction - I used to work with a group of guys who were serious shooters.  We would meet once a month, discuss what guns we had, and exchange guns for a month with each other, the theory being you would get a chance to try something you didn't have, and get it out of your system.  In reality, all it did was make you go out and buy the ones you liked...:)

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Re: High Standard Supermatic Citation
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2011, 02:24:44 PM »
Cool Victor.
Shot mine for the first time on Sunday and wow have my skills gone down.
I need to get used to it and stop trying to strangle it when shooting it.
Did OK with the short rifle browning buckmark.
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Re: High Standard Supermatic Citation
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2011, 02:31:33 PM »
Very nice pick up, have been looking for one now for a couple of years that has the second set up for 22short.
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Re: High Standard Supermatic Citation
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2011, 11:07:10 AM »
My father was on the National Guard shooting team back in the 70's and my mother bought him a High Standard Supermatic Citation made in Hamden, Conn., I wanna say that one year he was in the top 25 in the state for shooting in the guards but for all I now their might have only 25 people in it,  well when he retired he had no use for it so he gave it to me. It is a really nice shooting gun, I am no where close to using the full potential of this gun. It will shoot one hole groups at 15 yards when in a rest and using subsonic ammo, and I am a not a very good shot, so some one with more experience and skill  and match ammo could probably do that out to 25 yards easily.
I have read online of people cracking frames when using high velocity ammo in them so I switched to subsonic just to be on the safe side.
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Re: High Standard Supermatic Citation
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2011, 04:51:20 AM »
Maccool,
Mine is the same model.
When i was at VF all we shot was standard 22LR at 50 feet.
It just takes time shooting.  get one of the targets that are written on that tells you what is going on and how to correct your shooting.
Most often people strangle the gun and squeeze their whole hand when squeezing the trigger.
If your dad is still around, ask him to coach you.
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Re: High Standard Supermatic Citation
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2011, 08:41:28 AM »
I had to go dig mine out. I don't use it much anymore. It shot very well today. It's mostly a safe queen. I purchased it on 6-22-1978 new, at Lee's Sport Shop, in St Cloud Mn. I still have all of the original paperwork and box that it came in. I remember ordering it and waiting about 4 months for it to come in. It has a 7 1/4"  fluted barrel. The shop ordered 2 of them one for stock. I didn't buy the other one, and I had two chances to pick it up. They sold it and then bought it back about a year later.  I've been kicking myself ever since. 33 years is a lot of kicking.
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Re: High Standard Supermatic Citation
« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2011, 04:46:24 AM »
Brings back a lot of memories.  I bought mine (71/2" with muzzlebrake and barrel weights) in 1967 for $75, shot it for yrs. in NRA Bullseye competion.  Made Master with it, our team was 2nd in the nation at the National indoor pistol championships in , I think, 1973.  I think the other team members were shooting High Standards also, there was one Victor but I don't remember
the other two.  Love that gun but haven't shoot it in over 20 yrs. still have the box and papers also. Have two HD Military that I do shoot occasionally.  I had an extra 5" bull barrel for the Citation (bought for $10) but never liked it as much as the 71/2"
so later sold the 5". Great pistols.
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