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I was at a gunshop today that I haven't been at in quite a while since it is a fair distance from my home. Anyway I came across 15 or so boxes of Sears 30.06 150 grain ammo at $10.99 a box.

I am 50 years old and cannot remember Sears ever selling guns or ammo. Can anyone give some clue as to how old this ammo might be???

Sears sold lots & lots of guns! Don't remember sears brand ammo though.

What? I use to drool over the guns in a Sears catalog and at the store as a kid and I'm younger than you.

Don't know who made their ammo, Herters maybe.

It might have been Winchester-made on contract. They sold guns under the Ted Williams logo for years and as J.C Higgins before that.

Sears sold guns and ammo all the way up to the early 80's. I remember buying Sears "Ted Williams" shotgun shells in the late 70's and at that time they were obviously manufactured by Federal for Sears.

This had to be one of the widest things I have come across. All the boxes were pristine too!

A coworker and I have been hitting a lot of gunshops lately to help ease the dead winter doldrums.......amazing what you find!!!

Off Topic but my Marlin Model 60 is stamped "Western Auto", if anybody remembers that store.

Sears, JC Penny, Western Auto, lots of stores sold guns back in the day. I'm in my 40's and I can remember seeing them in the stores when I was a kid.

I recall going into Sears stores in the 1950's and drooling over the JC Higgins 30-06 and 270 rifles made by FN in Belgium. Both Sears and Wards sold their own brand of ammo, Sears under the name JC Higgins and Wards under the Hawthorn brand. I think Federal made the Hawthorn ammo

Could be less than 30 years old but not much.

Sears bought Western Auto then sold it again right before the name disappeared.

Montgomery Ward used to sell a lot of firearms as well.

Of course I remember Western Auto stores; I still have a set of metric open end wrenches with the Western Auto name forged into them.

Sears sold guns and ammo in 1980's.

The rifle came from my Grandad about 1965. It is a shooter.

Western auto had their own line of guns sold as the "Revelation" brand.

Sears centerfire ammo was all made by Winchester. They stopped around 1980. They are collectible if old enough. Post a pic!

When I was about 14 years old, I was hunting with a friend my age, and another guy a little bit older. We were in a dove field, and having typical success on doves (i.e. lots of empty shells, not so many dead doves ).

We had about run out of ammo, so said something to the older guy, who had driven us out there. He said "Go up to the car and get some more".

Um... OK. We looked at each other and headed for the car. I can't remember exactly how we decided, but I drove into the nearest small town, about 10 miles away, and he drove back. We knew there was a Western Auto parts store there where we could buy more ammo.

When we pulled back in to the field an hour or so later, our older buddy was flipping out! "Where were you??"

"Uh, we went to get more ammo, like you said. Want some? We got you a box..."

Turns out there were a few boxes in the trunk!

Underage driving, with guns in the car, buying ammo at 14 years old with no questions .... aaahhh times were better back then...

I've got a Western Auto chainsaw.

I still have a few 12 gauge shotguns shells from Sears.

My first 22 rifle was ordered from a Sears catalog. It was a Winchester bolt action single shot.

I bought my first shotgun from Western Auto. I was putting in the sewer line to a new lagoon when I was 17 years old. In Aug I took a pay check into Western Auto and bought a new 20 gauge Remington 1100. I didn't even have to have my parents permission back then, much less the governments permission!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I forgot it is also stamped "Revelation".