Sears Guns.

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Stephen Perry

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No matter who made them they have a Sears stamp on the barrel. I have a few. My first 22 that I just tru-oiled the stock on has a deeply engraved Sears name on it. Doesn't bother me half the fun is tring to figure out who made it. Mine is a semi-auto shoots shorts, longs, and long rifle. I have owned it since 1963. Could be a High Standard or a Savage. I have a single shot 22 looks like a Winchester. I have a Mauser .270 an FN. When me and my smith reconditioned the stock and barreled action we shoe-shined off the lightly scratched on Sears name.

What you guys got that has the Sears name on. As a kid the Sears catalogue was my prize possession for gun dreaming maybe your's too.

Stephen Perry
Angeles BR
 
Just as a couple of guesses, consider H & R or Stevens as contract suppliers to Sears for some of these guns.

Or maybe Mossberg.

I'm just guessing here.

Good luck with your detective work on this issue!
 
Hi-standard

did have an autoloader that shot shorts-longs and long rifles. Max
 
Stephen

Back in the mid 60's, Todd Shipyards presented my Dad with a "Ted Williams Mod 73" cal 270.

My younger brother has that Rifle now, I haven't laid eyes on it in 20 years.

My Dad said it was nothing but a Winchester. The chart furnished by locoweed confirms this.

It is a really nice looking Rifle. But from what I have read, these Rifles do not have the same value as a true brand name, even though mechanically it is probably identicle.

When we were kids, all of the 22's and shotguns my Dad bought for us were from Sears. They are all long gone, except for a little single shot 410 that had a picture of a dog on the side of the reciever. I think it was made by Harrington & Richards. It's in a closet somewhere.......jackie
 
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Blue book

Has a manufacturers cross reference in the back. It covers alot of the Store brands with their manufacturer. It's worth a look
 
Gun Parts Corp

from new york state. i believe they were the old numerick arms. that is what my book says. i got the catalog to get the schematics of alot of guns. they also had conversion tables in the back. sears used several manufactures to make products under the sears name. like jackie stated winchester was one. the sears line was comparable with the winchester ranger series rifles. their single shot shot guns were H&R. check the rifling on the 22 as if it has 12 grooves instead of 6 it is marlin. my wife has a 20 gauge pump that is a ted williams model. the crossover is with stevens. best of luck, Fred
 
I had to go look at mine again.
The chart that locoweed linked to did not have mine listed, and jackies post confused me. My "Sears Gun" is a Ted Williams Model 53 in 30-06
 
I once saw a "Model 51"(I believe).............

in .222 Rem. which was an L46 SAKO. Could have had it for $250 in '86. Wish I had. :eek::eek:;)
 
You know that the old family rifle and shotguns that I can't sell are Revelations, Western Fields, and Ted Williams. Our family couldn't afford the name brands.
Butch
 
Wards Westernfield

My grandgathers first rifle, my first rifle, I re did it and it became my oldest sons first rifle. Grandpa bought it new in approx 1916 with a weaver patent pending scope for about $8. It was a target model with a big forend. I lugged it around for years until I blew it up one day, reloading 22 ammo trying to hit dinner which was slightly out of range of a regular 22. I was about 14. It then sat in the safe until my son needed his first rifle. I found some of the parts and made the rest. Realizing that it was not valuable I decided to modernize it a bit by streamlining the rifle a bit and having it coated with nylite. I recrowned it, set the barrel back a bit allowing a new throat to be cut, and chopped the forend down enough to leave the lines of what was there but still modernize it and lighten it enough to drag through the woods. It is no longer capable of keeping up with modern target rifles, but my son still tries. It will still shoot 5 shot groups in the .3's @ 50 yards making it a squirrels worst nightmare.
Kim

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I inherited a J C Higgins Model 50 270 thats built on an FN Mauser, that my father bought in '59, I think. It has a chrome lined bore and was assembled by High Standard. Its little 22" pencil barrel still shoots right where you point it.

It was the first rifle Dad ever owned after immigrating here from Germany (legally!). He learned to shoot through a brief assignment to a "98" when Mr Hitler decided teenagers were as good as adults for cannon fodder.
 
That little tale about "reloading" for..........

a .22 brought tears to my eyes. ;) I once did that w/my Dad's 80-C Marlin. I had the same results you mentioned!! Dad was out of country training some maintenance specialists, and I decided to do some "reloading" in hopes of shredding some small birds as an experiment. I increased the charges AND the payload at the same time(I was in need of some guidance, SERIOUS guidance, in reloading, that just wasn't available yet.....) Anyhow, as I touched off the final, THE FINAL, round, a little voice somewhere said "move over" and I listened, as the receiver and barrel moved rearward, independent of the stock they were splitting as they moved aft. I was quite surprised at the flash, and saw that it had moved down through the now non-existent magwell and recolored the gray paint to black, on the hood of the '48 Olds I was using as an impromptu bench. Well, I washed off the soot as best I could and hid the evidence until the day of reckoning I dreaded was upcoming fast.....and I was unprepared. I begged and pleaded with neighbors for any kind of odd jobs so I could buy a new one, but this was LOONNNG before the days of Gun List, and those ingrates at Marlin had CHANGED the 80-C to a darker, more FASHIONABLE........80-D!! The D stood for DAMN!! (what am I going to do NOW????) Dad solved my dilemma by showin' up one day, and all was great, til one day before he went back, I guess he'd been sneakin' around while I was gone, lookin' for a gun he KNEW was around here SOMEWHERE (I didn't want him taking what was left of it out, and getting into unsupervised trouble with it, so, like many unknowing parents, I'd hidden it well.) Finally, all my luck ran out when he had the nerve to ask me where HIS rifle was. And there was "that look" that told me he was HOT, because he couldn't find it!! :eek: Well, I was told to get it NOW, so I brought out the summarily-dismissed imposter as "....NOT MY RIFLE!!" (...but possession is nine points......? NEIN POINTS!!??) Know those after-action reports the Fire Department writes, that are quoted by the newspapers?? Like, "......the fire started in the rear, and by the time the first apparatus arrived, the structure was totally involved..." Yep, I was more "totally involved" with the ol' man right then than I wanted to be, and when HIS flames subsided, (he was a smoker, so he wore out a little quicker'n he wanted to), I was thankful!! Later on, Mom was a little smarter. He was back out of country, and I guess she figured guns were an "attractive nuisance" so she figured (obviously) that idle hands were "the Devil's playground" and got me into an nra junior rifle program. She wanted me to be able to swim, shoot, and cook, so she took care of the last, and sent me to YMCA away camp (this was back when you could still do that and not worry about your little, or big little boy) I tried the Boy Scouts, too, but I was a Hellion, and that came to an end.....:D Then, about when I was 15, I kept hearing SHOOTING on Saturday mornings, REAL shooting!! Definitely not .22s. So, the next Saturday when it was going on, I told my Mother I was going "up the road" Where are you going? "...to find out where this shooting is coming from." Long story short, I walked till the interesting noise was even with me, turned 90 degrees, and walked in on members of the North-South Skirmish Assn. That turned me around forever. I was curious about the MLs but as a stepping stone to the good stuff!! I apologize, I didn't mean to hijack the thread, but the memories came flooding back, I've never really talked about that before. :eek: See ya.
 
Husqvarna mauser

They also had Husqvarna make rifles for them. I have a 30-06 commercial Husqvarna mauser that has JC Higgins on the barrel, and with a really nice stock. Not all Higgins guns were plain & cheap. I plan to rebarrel it to 6.5x55 for #2 grandson. After all, a swede should be in 6.5!

Regards, Ron
 
i had a few sears .22's & shotguns when i was growing up. they were passed on to nieces & nephews.
about a year ago i was at a gunshow & as i was walking by a guy was trying to sell a sears model 53 or whatever model number their re-badged winchester model 70's were. the dealer looks at it & tells him these are obsolete & no one has parts for it if it breaks so all i can give you $150. he wasn't too happy when i told the guy it was actually a winchester model 70 & its not obsolete, they don't break very often & you can get parts for it if it does break.
 
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