JC Higgins model 20
JC Higgins model 20
Here is a JC Higgins model 20 in 12ga 2 3/4 I picked-up in a package deal. it has a nice brown patina all wood is original and it shoots great.
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Junk Yard Dog
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Re: JC Higgins model 20
High Standard made that one for Sears, they made good, solid guns 
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
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Re: JC Higgins model 20
They are good guns. I got one as a boxfull of rusty pieces. It needed some love, but it is great now.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Re: JC Higgins model 20
who gets cuffed to the pipe? 
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
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ponycarman
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Re: JC Higgins model 20
Good looking shotgun!
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Guns are not good, they are not evil. Save those descriptions for the people holding the firearm. -- Unknown
1943 Izhevsk
1937 Izhevsk
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1939 Tula (laminate stock)
And many other firearms
Guns are not good, they are not evil. Save those descriptions for the people holding the firearm. -- Unknown
1943 Izhevsk
1937 Izhevsk
1935/48/50 Tula (hex)
1939 Tula (laminate stock)
And many other firearms
Re: JC Higgins model 20
Whoever needs it.Junk Yard Dog wrote:who gets cuffed to the pipe?
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
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Re: JC Higgins model 20
millman wrote:Whoever needs it.Junk Yard Dog wrote:who gets cuffed to the pipe?
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Re: JC Higgins model 20
The old J.C. Higgins were good, long lasting guns. I have a Model 88 .22 pistol from 1955 or 1956 and it still shoots great.
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Re: JC Higgins model 20
The reason that the Higgins guns were so good is that they were produced by such makers as High Standard, Winchester, and other well known names. Sears used the JC Higgins name until the early 1960's on .22's, rifles, shotguns of all types as well as other sporting gear. I love finding these at the flea market because they will have cheap prices on them put there by people who have no idea they are selling a Winchester. They think it's some POS store brand gun when nothing could be farther from the truth.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Re: JC Higgins model 20
Model 20.....my first shotgun!
Mine has the bird cage choke on it. Three screw in chokes for it.
As all my firearms, I still have it!
Dolk
Mine has the bird cage choke on it. Three screw in chokes for it.
As all my firearms, I still have it!
Dolk