who made Sears .22 rifles?

[Halo]

The first gun I ever got was an old Sears .22 semi-auto with a tube magazine. My Dad bought it for me when I was about 12 or 13. Who actually made the rifles for Sears, or did they use different manufacturers?

What a different time it must have been, for a department store like Sears to have its own line of firearms.

 

[Mal H]

Many different manufacturers made rifles and shotguns for Sears. Since your rifle was a tube mag semiauto, I'd wager it was made by Marlin patterned after their Model 60 (same as their Glenfield brand). If you have a Sears model number, I can look it up specifically.

The list I'm using is the Store Brand Cross-over List from the Blue Book.

 

[DEAC25]

I have an old Sears 22, also a tube feeder. It is, as I understand it, a Winchester rifle stamped with a Sears logo. It looks exactly like the winchester, as I looked at a Winchester at a Pawn shop the other day. I also saw the exact same gun stamped with another hardware store name, I think it was Western Auto, priced at $69.00.

I love that old gun, it still shoots very well, and I didn't have to clean it all that much, simply a great gun to bang around with.

Deac

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

What a different time it must have been, for a department store like Sears to have its own line of firearms.

Yes indeed. I remember seeing all sorts of rifles and shotguns ("Ted Williams" was another of their "house brands) in the catalogs and stores up to about 35 years ago. Monkey Wards (the now-defunct Montgomery Ward) held on a little longer; I purchased a handgun from them c. 1983 or '84.

 

[BigG]

I have an older one that I think is High Standard, mfred for Sears.

 

[kBob]

J.M.Feilds used to sell guns, My Ruger RST4 (No it isn not an MARK I as that was only the name of the match models of that series with adjustable rear sight) came from JMF in the late 1960s.

I do believe that Winchester made a tube feeder on their .22LR semi auto of the time for use as a Ted Williams marked Sears gun at one point and that the same gun with a cheaper finish and wood was made for Western Auto under the Revelation brand.

-Bob Hollingsworth

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

I used to work for Monkey Wards when I was 16. We had all kinds of guns. We even had some colt 1911's in .38 super. Go figure.

 

[GRIZ22]

There is a list on e-gunparts showing the store model number and who actually made it.

 

[Texas Moon]

Savage/Stevens/Springfield made a bunch of guns for Sears.

Gun Parts Corp catalog has a cross reference section that can help you I.D. your piece.

 

[Halo]

Cool, thanks for all the responses. I'll cross reference it when I get home. I'm pretty sure it's not a Marlin, because I have a Marlin Model 60 and it looks nothing like that.

 

[Nugilum]

Here's the Numrich web page for cross referencing Sears rifles.
Your model number will be a series of numbers separated by dots.

An example would be my 16 gauge bolt action shotgun I got from my grandfather. The Sears "J.C. Higgins" model #583.1 is actually a High Standard Model 10.

http://www.e-gunparts.com/crossref.asp

Let us know what it is please!

 

[Ghost Tracker]

You guys mean Ted Williams didn't REALLY make my baseball glove?!? Next you'll be telling me my Sears "Jeepers" basketball hi-tops...weren't made by Jeep!

 

[Sistema1927]

It was absolutely wonderful to walk around a Sears, or a Montgomery Wards, or a Western Auto, or just about any hardware store, and see racks and racks of guns.

You could pull money out of your pocket, plop it down on the counter, and then walk out with your gun, and ammo, without showing ID, proving age, filling out any forms, asking permission, etc. I did just this, at age 12.

1968 was a very, very bad year.

 

[Furncliff]

Halo your rifle could have been made by Hi Standard,(is it a model 31?) they were also making shotguns for Sears I believe. I have a J.C. Higgins (the Sears brand name) made by Marlin. Given to me by my mother in 1960.

 

[CajunBass]

I've never owned a Sears 22, but both of my shotguns are Sears branded. One was made by Winchester, the other by Mossberg. My first gun, a 20 ga Ithaca "Super-single" came from Sears, as did my second one, a "Sears" stamped Stevens 311 double 12. I later bought a very nice Sears branded 20 ga double made by AYA in Spain, and a Winchester Model 70, 30/06. I sprung the extra money to get a genuine Model 70 because the stock was a lot nicer than the "Ted Williams" one.

 

[Halo]

My rifle is a Sears 3T, Model 273.2390. According to the e-gunparts.com cross reference, it's a Winchester 190-290.

It's a fun little rifle, and pretty accurate too. I remember one Christmas we used it to shoot mistletoe out of a tree. I wonder how old it is.