Just noticed an article in the latest issue of "Man at Arms," the NRA gun collectors magazine. Goes over all the Sears-branded SxS shotguns over the years and has pix of most. So if anybody else has a "Ranger" or "J.C. Higgins" double, you can identify and date it with this. I found it in Barnes and Noble; probably at Borders, too.
Lots of these Rangers are Stevens or Savage/Stevens, but there are LOTS of other makers, some American, some Belgian (and later, some Spanish). Mostly usable guns if in good shape, and you can figure out what ammo is safe in them; older ones, especially Belgian, are mainly Damascus barreled.
