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J.C. Higgins was a name that covered a wide range of sporting goods. I had a J.C. Higgins basketball and baseball glove. I believe J.C. Higgins was a name use by Sears to market their products. Stevens was bought by Savage but I believe they still produced guns under the Stevens name. My recollection may be hindered by brain fog, but there it is. It seems we all shopped at Sears. Maybe we crossed paths and didn’t realize it. Lol

Brings back memories, Ted Williams endorsed everything from baseball gloves to barbecue pits for Sears.

I think it was a Stevens manufactured and marketed under J. C. Higgins. At about 16 years old my parents bought me a Sears .22 tube fed Ted Williams rifle which was a Winchester. A friend had the Winchester Model 190 and mine was the Sears M90. Both were destroyed in a house fire.

J. C. Higgins?

I made a comment on Reddit which is absolutely the worst social media but it is entertaining. It is so far left that it fell off the left side of the Earth. A person call me a murdering Nazi pig. My comment in response was, check FBI statistics. There was no profanity, no threats and not even a snide comment. It was literally just, check the FBI statistics. I got a warning and my comment was removed as hate speech. I sent a note to moderators and asked about being called a murdering Nazi pig and was told that is not hate speech. 🤣 They can’t help themselves….

There are some really sick people in this world.

Not too young at all. About those paper shotgun shells…….let’s just say that our house didn’t have moisture control. We had an attic fan with open windows. Some mornings I’d wake up wet from the dew being sucked into the house. If moisture got to those shells, they could swell in the barrel when fired and be hard to eject with a bolt action. When plastic came along, like you said, it was a miracle.

A friend bought the Marlin 1895 45-70 from Gibson’s in Beaumont. I bought the Marlin 1894 in .357. I still have it. I think that I bought it in 1976 so it’s probably 50 years old this year.

I had a break open .410 that belonged to my grandfather and then father. My father would hunt with it probably around 1935 during the Depression. I loaned it to my cousin so that he hunt rabbits. His father was an alcoholic and got drunk and traded it for a bottle of whiskey. It would probably by about 100 years old by now.

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My first was a Sears .22 single shot when I was about 6 years old.

My first shotguns had paper shells. When they came out with plastic shells, I thought technology in the world had come to a peak.

It literally could with the right hard cast bullets. I shoot the 300 grain soft points at 1850 fps, plenty for hogs. 🙂

Looked up your 45-70. That’s a beautiful lever action. Please don’t anyone ever think that I am any kind of expert. I know what I know but am always open to correction and still have a lot of room to learn. I would say that Marlin could stop an elephant. Lol

Good luck verifying that on MSNBC for the Breitbart haters, lol.

Both of you list rifles as your favs. Although I have a Ruger mini-14 Ranch and an older Remington pump .22, I’m a handgun lover, especially wheel guns, even though I have several semi-autos.

Marlin 1895 45-70, limited use but is a great hog gun.

Not going to predict an election. I will point out a couple of things from my perspective to keep a watch on. The current job market is basically a ‘no hire/no fire” market. Good if you’re employed. Bad if you’re a young grad looking for a job. Young grads tend to vote Democrat, and will also be faced with student loan forced payments at a time when they’re unemployed. GDP is greatly affected by the import/export ratio. Many companies stocked up on inventory before the tariffs went into effect, so the GDP was negatively affected. The numbers now reflect a massive drop in imports vs. exports that won’t continue as existing supplies run out. So, GDP will drop. You also will probably still have the healthcare issue that Democrats will continue to make an election issue. They will do nothing to solve the problem. It would be one less thing to run on, and the Republicans are down to a 213-208 advantage I believe after the CA Reps death earlier this week. Not enough of a margin to pass anything on their own. Still…the numbers are very good. Hopefully, folks are invested in their 401k’s, or other investment vehicles.

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that's a tough one, but probably one of my Tikka .270s. or maybe the AR-10 that I spent way too much money building

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