Diamondback Sidekick
Hi-Standard Double Nine
Diamondback Sidekick
Hi-Standard Double Nine
My best friend and neighbor had one of the Double Nines when we were just kids.
I had a Ruger Mk1 and he had the Double Nine. We were raised in a rural area, and both of us were taught how to shoot and hunt at an early age.
We would spend all our doing chores/allowance money, lawn mowing money, picking up redeemable bottle money, etc. on ammo in order spend hours out in the woods shooting those things...lol...we literally had a blast. We’d swap guns and shoot some more.
FWIW, we always stayed within the bounds that our dads laid out for us, especially regarding guns. We wanted to avoid a good, old-fashion arse-whooping and losing our privileges...we knew better. We respected private property, never robbed a gas station, never shot anyone or hurt anything. We were just a couple of young fellas that had fun shooting the daylights out of a bunch of used-up tin cans and paper targets.
Wow...now thinking back on all that compared to the way things are now: how times have changed.
I liked them because they were light, and held nine shots. I noticed one of them had a chamber which would shoot slightly off of where the rest of the chambers shot, about an inch and a half at 50 feet.
Most revolvers are inherently accurate because of the fixed barrel, with no movement between the barrel and sights.
I still have some of the old Sentinels, but the new crop of semi-autos, such as the Kel-Tec P17, the Taurus TX22, the Sig P322, and the FN502, with 15+ magazine capacity, combined with good triggers and light weight, have the edge.