Nice find....I remember when Sears sold guns. Also Western Auto had a store brand that were good.

 

Good catch.
I once looked at a Revelation/Western Auto branded Marlin .30-30.

It was considerably different from a Marlin Marlin. It had a Monte Carlo stock, which looked odd on a lever action. More importantly, it had six groove rifling, years before Marlin thought to capitalize on "Ballard Rifling" where they didn't want to use Microgroove. I considered getting it for a cast bullet/CAS side match rifle but passed it up. Ended up with a .33 WCF which was a lot more trouble than the occasional side match warranted.

 

I'd love to find a Marlin 'Marauder' in .35 Remington..... one of my few dream guns I want to get.

Yes the .35 is an excellent cartridge for deer (and darn near anything else inside 150 yards.)

 

Congrats on that .35. That’s a fine looking one.

I have several myself and shoot them regularly. Ammo is generally released prior to deer season, so stock up when you find it.

 

Picked this up this week from a private sale. It is a 1960 model , sold by Marlin to Sears under their store brand JC Higgins. It is in really good shape for the age, bluing and wood are nice with just a few handling marks. From all I have read about it the .35 Rem cartridge gets high marks as a deer/bear gun. As soon as I find some ammo , I'll report back on how she shoots !

the 35 Remington is a great deer cartridge, and for that matter so is the 357 mgnum out of a rifle, but the 35 Remington, with heavier bullets and more velocity, is just that much better. The 30-30 is more popular, but the 35 rem is a better cartridge.

That is a beautiful gun.

 

In a lot of old literature, the .35, .30-30, and .32 WS were listed together as suitable for that unusual game species "deerandblackbear."

 

Great rifle. My favorite deer/bear rifle is a 336 in .35 Remington. Yours is much nicer looking, but mine fills the freezer just fine.

BTW there doesn’t appear to be a difference between the Sears branded rifle and the Marlin-stamped. I have a Marlin in .30-30 from 1949, looks identical to your .35.

 

Great rifle. My favorite deer/bear rifle is a 336 in .35 Remington. Yours is much nicer looking, but mine fills the freezer just fine.

BTW there doesn’t appear to be a difference between the Sears branded rifle and the Marlin-stamped. I have a Marlin in .30-30 from 1949, looks identical to your .35.

Barrel is simply marked J C Higgins Model 45 .35 Remington and the patent number. Does your have a fore end cap? That's one difference someone else pointed out. But both models are handsome firearms.

 

Looks awesome! Congratulations!

 

Great looking rifle amigo... Love the 35 rem. One of my favorite cartridges in lever.
Deer, Black bear, elk, moose.... Works on them all. Especially with heavy hard cast bullets, there is not much walking you can't bring down with it!

I shot a Oklahoma canyon buck, a big one, at about 200 yds with it some years back, with a old weaver scope on it, and he dropped like a sack of rocks, dead-O.

Better hang on to this one...

 

Picked this up this week from a private sale. It is a 1960 model , sold by Marlin to Sears under their store brand JC Higgins. It is in really good shape for the age, bluing and wood are nice with just a few handling marks. From all I have read about it the .35 Rem cartridge gets high marks as a deer/bear gun. As soon as I find some ammo , I'll report back on how she shoots !

I wouldn't have been able to say no to that either
Just enjoyable as a memento of another era. Sear's private label gun brand, pretty symbolic of a different era in American gun culture

 

I wouldn't have been able to say no to that either
Just enjoyable as a memento of another era. Sear's private label gun brand, pretty symbolic of a different era in American gun culture

Yep, I'm afraid we'll never see that kind of thing again.

 

I had a Western Auto 30/30 but sadly lost it in a tragic boating accident. I paid $100 for it 20 years ago. I found it at a local gun show, with a scope and a sling. It was a good brush gun for deer and pigs.

 

Very nice find,
Congrats!

1911club#410

 

Picked this up this week from a private sale. It is a 1960 model , sold by Marlin to Sears under their store brand JC Higgins. It is in really good shape for the age, bluing and wood are nice with just a few handling marks. From all I have read about it the .35 Rem cartridge gets high marks as a deer/bear gun. As soon as I find some ammo , I'll report back on how she shoots !

Is it just the photo angle, or does that have a pretty short barrel?
Looks to be around 18" (just a guesstimate)?

Sweet hunting blaster to be sure.

I think the old Speer #8 reloading manual is the one that had some "varmint" loads for the .35 Rem, using 125 grain JHP revolver bullets.
For walking-up varmints at close range, they were good for making it rain fur for a week...
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Is it just the photo angle, or does that have a pretty short barrel?
Looks to be around 18" (just a guesstimate)?

Sweet hunting blaster to be sure.

I think the old Speer #8 reloading manual is the one that had some "varmint" loads for the .35 Rem, using 125 grain JHP revolver bullets.
For walking-up varmints at close range, they were good for making it rain fur for a week...
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Pretty sure it's the angle of the photo. I will measure it to be sure.

 

Congrats. It's all Marlin, sold through Sears. You got a nice one. 35 Rem is an iconic cartridge and still as good as it ever was.

 

For .35 Remington I generally cast a 200 gr bullet which I powder coat. For all day fun plinking I use my 158 gr. bullets I make for my .357.

 

You're a lucky man finding one in .35 Remington. I have one, too. It's a .30-30, but mine is marked "Sears & Roebuck, Co.", and is sans the "J. C. Higgins" Mine was in near new condition when I purchased it about a year ago. It was too nice a rifle to pass up at the price. I, too, am a fan of the .35 Remington, and have three such chambered rifles of which only one is a Marlin. Once again, congradulations on your find.

 

I found this .35 Remington on a rack at a police supply store and had to have it.

Here's what I really like about it.

It was a patrol rifle from the Atlanta, Georgia area.

 

These 35 Marlins are great old rifles and that Higgins is a peach. That Cobb County gun is quite a find, too.

 

Some Marlins that aren’t labled Marlins are truly Marlins through and through. I can’t remember the brand, but I bought this 30-30 for a very low price because it was manufactured by Marlin for another seller. I can’t see any deviation from the standard Marlin rifle.

 

I bought a very nice 39A off a gun shop rack one Saturday. I sold it some time later , must have been a weak moment. Would love to find another one but I see that the prices have increased dramatically since I bought the last one ! Marlin made some fine lever actions.

 

Yes, because the rest of the chambered barrel is threaded into the receiver.