She may not be the fanciest or prettiest girl at the dance, but she has it where it counts. Higgins bolt-action shotgun is a stellar example of the brand. While many of these are still great budget guns that don’t have to be put out to pasture, the J.C. Higgins name were numerous manufacturers that included just about every major gun company of the time like Savage, Mossberg, Marlin, Iver Johnson, Hi Standard, Winchester – just to name a few. These were low priced guns that gave a lot of bang for the buck, but what made them even more interesting is the fact that behind the J.C.

Long before they were sponsoring extreme home makeovers and marketing through the internet, Sears, Roebuck and Company, or just Sears, used to sell guns, along with all other retail goods, through mail order catalogs and in its stores under the brand name J.C.