Sears & Roebuck Model 45 / Marlin 336

[Jim Watson]

That was one of the disliked changes to the 1964 WINCHESTER '94. They all got a stamped sheet metal lifter, not just the house brands.

 

[.45Coltguy]

Its the WINCHESTER copy that is known different internally.

Something different/badly-designed about the Sears shell-lifter. Although I don't actually know whether you can just swap-in a known good Winchester part in place of the (tin?) shell-lifter in the Sears version.

Link/proof, please.

 

[W.E.G.]

Link/proof, please.

answer in post immediately above

 

[Remington1911]

I think a substantial part of their sales appeal back in the day was that these stores seemed to be everywhere and you could bring you store-branded merchandise to them for warranty service.

That used to be an attraction for Sears Craftsman-branded tools: if you broke one, or just found a broken one in the gutter, you could take it to the nearest Sears and they would replace it with new, no receipt required and questions asked.

Personally I think as us "boomers" are looking back we see a much better world. We see when you could go into Sears, get a bag of pop corn, a rifle and a pair of tough skins (god how I hated those pants) and all was good. We look around today and see.....well nothing good.

 

[.45Coltguy]

answer in post immediately above

Honestly, I must be missing it. Nothing about Winchester, only Marlin. ?

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

Personally I think as us "boomers" are looking back we see a much better world. We see when you could go into Sears, get a bag of pop corn, a rifle and a pair of tough skins (god how I hated those pants) and all was good. We look around today and see.....well nothing good.

There's a lot of truth in that. Back in the day you could go to a wide variety brick and mortar places that no longer exist. Now every shopping complex, at least around here, has the exact same half-dozen chain stores. And, darn it, those places don't sell surplus military rifles!

My friend Shanghai McCoy pointed out that the -algia in nostalgia refers to pain, and given all the good things in my life that the passage of time has robbed from me, looking back can hurt.

On the other hand, while I do miss Monkey Wards, Woolworths and Sears and guns that were all steel and walnut and could be mail ordered and delivered to my door, I have to admit it's a good thing to have a cell phone (which I only use for emergencies -- I'm really old in that respect), a robot to sweep my living room floor, being able to source oddball stuff over the Internet and starting my day chatting with other like-minded geezers around the world such as yourself every morning.

 

[Remington1911]

There's a lot of truth in that. Back in the day you could go to a wide variety brick and mortar places that no longer exist. Now every shopping complex, at least around here, has the exact same half-dozen chain stores. And, darn it, those places don't sell surplus military rifles!

My friend Shanghai McCoy pointed out that the -algia in nostalgia refers to pain, and given all the good things in my life that the passage of time has robbed from me, looking back can hurt.

On the other hand, while I do miss Monkey Wards, Woolworths and Sears, guns that were all steel and walnut and could be mail ordered and delivered to my door, I have to admit it's a good thing to have a cell phone (which I only use for emergencies -- yup I'm really old in that respect), a robot to sweep my living room floor, being able to source oddball stuff over the Internet and to start my day chatting with other like-minded geezers around the world such as yourself every morning.