My new heater (shotgun)

**Mebsuta** · August 12, 2012, 00:22

Check out my new heater. I liberated this JC Higgins model 20 from the neighborhood place before somebody could get it and disfigure it. The thing on the end of the bbl is called a Power Pac, which is an early screw-in choke combined with a compensator.

I have shot about 150 rds through it and like it a lot. Only minor thing is that there's jump between the end of the bbl itself and the choke, & fragments of the plastic wad sometimes end up in the compensator. They get blown out next shot. Gun was made when they still used cardboard wads.

This gun could be used to bust up an alien cyborg attack.

Illurian00 · August 12, 2012, 00:38

I've got one, very similar. Vertical ports behind a poly-choke type device. I don't believe their was ever a smother pump. Keep the trigger assembly clean and apply a hi-grade oil or it will bind.
Lay in a good supply of buckshot and rock on....

RG Coburn · August 12, 2012, 07:44

I've got its twin brother. My favorite scattergun. Unscrewed the choke tube,ran Remington slugs,put them all on paper plate at 100 yards,dead on the bead.
Those have about the smoothest action going.Everything is milled,even the action bars.

shlomo · August 12, 2012, 21:05

Got one too. Cut the barrel to 18 1/2, put a large brass bead on it.

Didn't like the angle of the buttpad, so I removed it, recut the angle by about seven degrees under at the toe, and put a new Pachmayr pad on it.

It's my "Secondhand Lions" catfishin' gun.

**tdb59** · August 12, 2012, 21:38

Made by High Standard ?

**L Haney** · August 13, 2012, 05:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by shlomo

It's my "Secondhand Lions" catfishin' gun.

That, without the muzzle thingy, is exactly what I grew up shooting. My dads, he still has it. Perhaps just from the decades of use but it has the smoothest action I've ever seen.

With slugs, was also my first deer hunting weapon.

shlomo · August 13, 2012, 06:00

Ya seen that one, eh Haney?

shlomo · August 14, 2012, 21:03

Finally got off my dead ass today, and made up the magazine tube extension. In addition to a much better buttplate pitch, it is now an 8-shooter (7+1).

This is not a bad gun for 150 bucks and a little work.

catmguy445 · August 25, 2012, 18:14

Pic could use a little more detail, but that looks an awful lot like a High Standard Flite King. I thought at first it might be a Winchester, but looking closer, I'll go with High Standard.

**SPEEDGUNNER** · August 25, 2012, 20:47

High Standard made a lot of guns for Sears and Roebucks during the postwar era. Marketed under the J.C. Higgins (a long time Sears employee) they were very good, reliable, but pedestrian guns. The J.C. Higgins name was replaced by Ted Williams in the late 50's, early 60's, again the guns were manufactured by known companies for the Sears brand.

This is a nice shotgun, with a smooth action. Usually the wood was not real fancy, and the bluing not particularly fine, but mechanically the guns worked.

Should be a good gun for whatever use you put it to. Good luck.

August 12, 2012, 00:22	#1
Mebsuta Khemi, Stygia Contributor FALaholic #: 4143 Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Khemi, Stygia Posts: 6,304	My new heater (shotgun) Check out my new heater. I liberated this JC Higgins model 20 from the neighborhood place before somebody could get it and disfigure it. The thing on the end of the bbl is called a Power Pac, which is an early screw-in choke combined with a compensator. I have shot about 150 rds through it and like it a lot. Only minor thing is that there's jump between the end of the bbl itself and the choke, & fragments of the plastic wad sometimes end up in the compensator. They get blown out next shot. Gun was made when they still used cardboard wads. This gun could be used to bust up an alien cyborg attack.

August 12, 2012, 21:38	#5
tdb59 Curio & Relic Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 63177 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: I am here Posts: 2,272	Made by High Standard ? __________________ "I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiener".

August 25, 2012, 18:14	#9
catmguy445 Registered FALaholic #: 50311 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Boise, ID Posts: 1,202	Pic could use a little more detail, but that looks an awful lot like a High Standard Flite King. I thought at first it might be a Winchester, but looking closer, I'll go with High Standard. __________________ Zeke the CATM guy (MSGT, USAF, ret.) "The only easy day was yesterday" - US NAVY SEALs

August 25, 2012, 20:47	#10
SPEEDGUNNER Firearms Connoisseur Gold Contributor FALaholic #: 43933 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Scenic Chester County PA Posts: 1,351	High Standard made a lot of guns for Sears and Roebucks during the postwar era. Marketed under the J.C. Higgins (a long time Sears employee) they were very good, reliable, but pedestrian guns. The J.C. Higgins name was replaced by Ted Williams in the late 50's, early 60's, again the guns were manufactured by known companies for the Sears brand. This is a nice shotgun, with a smooth action. Usually the wood was not real fancy, and the bluing not particularly fine, but mechanically the guns worked. Should be a good gun for whatever use you put it to. Good luck. __________________ "There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't stay still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will." - Robert Service

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August 12, 2012, 00:38	#2
Illurian00 Registered FALaholic #: 28599 Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 2,416	I've got one, very similar. Vertical ports behind a poly-choke type device. I don't believe their was ever a smother pump. Keep the trigger assembly clean and apply a hi-grade oil or it will bind. Lay in a good supply of buckshot and rock on....

August 12, 2012, 07:44	#3
RG Coburn Registered FALaholic #: 27406 Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 10,897	I've got its twin brother. My favorite scattergun. Unscrewed the choke tube,ran Remington slugs,put them all on paper plate at 100 yards,dead on the bead. Those have about the smoothest action going.Everything is milled,even the action bars.

August 12, 2012, 21:05	#4
shlomo Registered FALaholic #: 12779 Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: elsewhere Posts: 12,021	Got one too. Cut the barrel to 18 1/2, put a large brass bead on it. Didn't like the angle of the buttpad, so I removed it, recut the angle by about seven degrees under at the toe, and put a new Pachmayr pad on it. It's my "Secondhand Lions" catfishin' gun.

August 13, 2012, 06:00	#7
shlomo Registered FALaholic #: 12779 Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: elsewhere Posts: 12,021	Ya seen that one, eh Haney?

August 14, 2012, 21:03	#8
shlomo Registered FALaholic #: 12779 Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: elsewhere Posts: 12,021	Finally got off my dead ass today, and made up the magazine tube extension. In addition to a much better buttplate pitch, it is now an 8-shooter (7+1). This is not a bad gun for 150 bucks and a little work.