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J C Higgins model 50
07 October 2005, 01:36
ElCaballeroJ C Higgins model 50
Where is the serial number located on these rifles. I have an FN that I cannot locate the number on.
07 October 2005, 02:00
vapodogIt's on the right side of the front receiver ring and it's very small stamping...hardly readable actually.
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07 October 2005, 02:25
ElCaballeroStill can't find it.
07 October 2005, 02:27
vapodogremove the action from the stock...mine is almost half way into the stock.
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07 October 2005, 02:31
22WRF
Did the J.C. Higgins 50 come with Factory Bases and Rings?
07 October 2005, 02:38
vapodog
quote:
Did the J.C. Higgins 50 come with Factory Bases and Rings?
NO...came with irons.
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07 October 2005, 03:05
ElCaballeroIt's just not there. Now what do I do?
07 October 2005, 03:09
new_guyquote:
Originally posted by ElCaballero:
It's just not there. Now what do I do?
Someone has probably filed it off???
07 October 2005, 03:13
ElCaballeroThat is what I am thinking. If so they did a good job no evidence of a file or anything whatsoever.
07 October 2005, 03:17
vapodogon my gun the stamping is so shallow that in a rebluing job it could have been buffed off
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07 October 2005, 03:22
Jim_DubellIf it has the original barrel look at the breech end ahead of the reciever. Have had some marked on the barrel only.
07 October 2005, 21:48
Paul Bquote:
Originally posted by new_guy:
quote:
Originally posted by ElCaballero:
It's just not there. Now what do I do?
Someone has probably filed it off???
Not necessarily so. Some actions were imported without serial numbers. I had one in .270 Win. that I bought brand new from Sears when they first came out. It had no serial number. Later models do have one though.
It wasn't until the passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968 that all rifles and shotgun were required to have serial numbers, although I believe handgun were required to have them.
Paul B.
Paul B.
08 October 2005, 05:45
AtkinsonPerhaps the gun has been reblued and they polished it off or suface ground it...They are on the right side in small and very shallow cut numbers, easy to polish off...
I sugges that you put a 4 diget number on it, your last 4 numbers of your tel. are good and easy to remember.
Ray Atkinson
Atkinson Hunting Adventures
10 Ward Lane,
Filer, Idaho, 83328
208-731-4120
rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com
08 October 2005, 08:18
ElCaballeroThere was a number on the barrel. It said J.C. Higgins M50 583.91. I thought of using that.
08 October 2005, 08:23
schromfI have an old Sears High Standard shotgun that doesn't have a serial number either, for sure, never reblued, been out of the stock checking for it. I don't know about rifles but the reference above to the 1968 act is correct.
08 October 2005, 21:56
tontoElcaballero
Thats the same number mine has! Mine has no serial number and I am almost certain it hasnt been refinished all other marking are perfect.
Dean
