J.C. Higgins Model 30

Will_Carry · Oct 222024

That is a fine-looking rifle! They just don't make'em like that anymore.
Here is my J.C. Higgins 103.18 that my father bought for $8 right before WWII. We used to pick up bottles from the side of the roadthen go down to Pearson's Store and trade them in for a box of 22 LR
Todayit's worth ten times what dad paid for it.

mightyox · Oct 222024

Will_Carry said:
That is a fine-looking rifle! They just don't make'em like that anymore.
Here is my J.C. Higgins 103.18 that my father bought for $8 right before WWII. We used to pick up bottles from the side of the roadthen go down to Pearson's Store and trade them in for a box of 22 LR
Todayit's worth ten times what dad paid for it.

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No they make them better. Nice rifles guys.

Will_Carry · Oct 222024

I never said they were betterthey just don't make them like that anymore.

I would not be a good judge on modern rifles. I imagine some are built better and some not so much.

mightyox · Oct 222024

Thats truebut thats everything. Trucks are better because they don't make them the way they used to. Guns too for the most part. I believe @Bubbasuwannee has a JC Higgins

JohnMc · Oct 222024

Mediaphyte said:
Manufactured by High Standard for the Sears and Roebuck Company1950-1953.
22 Long Rifle semi-automatic15 round magazinebuilt in retractable slingmade before serial numbers were required. This one has the left hand charging handle.
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I inherited one w/out the retractable sling when my Dad passed a few years back. It's kind of a safe queen nowI don't know the last time it's been fired.

Mediaphyte · Oct 222024

It's a funsnappy little shooter...just saying.

joker18 · Oct 222024

I have a Sears bolt action rifle (actually a Marlin model 80) Model 42 DL (deluxe?). It has a full size walnut stocka chrome trigger and trigger guard and is fed by a 7 round detachable magazine. My dad bought it in 1959 at Sears to take my brother and I shooting. My brother isn't much of a gun nut so I have the rifle. It is a very accurate rifle and the magazine will handle shortslongsand long rifle.
Yours however is a classic! That one was likely top of the line back then.

wakeforestshoots · Oct 312024

Absolutely beautiful.

J.C. Higgins Model 30

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