#high standard

When one of your safes locking mechanisms fails and you have to fix it. Luckily it broke when it was open. I am not impressed with the workmanship of this freaking Champion Safe. I've had it 3 years, 4 months out of warranty, and the locking mechanism fails. I attempted to contact them 3 times through their support portal over 10 days, they never got back to me. I called, waited on hold for 10 minutes before the line went dead. I called back I talked to one person who sent me to another where I waited for 20 minutes to be told just replace the battery. I had already done that. He said well the locking mechanism might be bad but he doubted it. I asked if I could just by a new locking mechanism and replace it, he was like "I guess". From that point forward he became super supportive and telling me how to change out the old lock for the new one, how to keep the drop lock from being triggered. Great information. 30% of that information was wrong. I get the new lock and try to install it and the plate they sent doesn't marry up, the hole for the drop plate is 1/8" to low, and the plate from the old one is way way off. So I get to fix what the maker did not get right the first time, so I can lock up my firearms again. Why is workmanship of so many big ticket items so freaking shitty? I would bet is has a lot to do with schools pushing liberal arts over skilled training. We end up getting people who don't want to build things, or fix things so they half ass it and you get this shotty work. It's fixed now, that is the important this at this point.

But I’m fine with my standards 😂❤

In Action: Hi-Standard Model B

In the photograph featured above members of US Navy WAVES practice marksmanship at an indoor range at the Treasure Island Naval Base in San Francisco, California, 11 February 1943. Their pistols are High Standard Model Bs.

Carl Swebilius established the High Standard Manufacturing Company in 1932, and when war broke out in 1939, High Standard began exporting Model B pistols to Britain. Following the US’ entry into the war the US War Department purchased High Standard’s entire inventory regardless of model. In order to meet demand High Standard developed new simpler and faster to produce model. The Model HD became the most manufactured with 34,000 made by the end of the war.

While a portion of these were siphoned off for covert uses with SOE and OSS, the vast majority were used for training purposes with the services using the .22LR as cheaper and low recoiling introduction to pistol shooting. In the photograph above the United States Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve) members are training with Model B pistols. The WAVES were formed in July 1942, they served at shore stations throughout the US working in a variety of roles. 

It’s difficult to tell from the angle of the photograph but the pistol in the photograph appears to be an earlier High Standard Model B. The pistols are characterised by their steep grip angle and recoiling breech block. These fed from a 10-round, single stack magazine and used a simple blowback action.

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