Did Sears Roebuck make the shotgun called the Long Tom and where can you get a stock and forearm for it?

Answer 1

Sears never actually made firearms. During the 1920s and maybe '30s Sears owned a gunmaking firm outright, which mostly made pocket pistols, but other than that guns sold by Sears were made by other manufacturers and sold under the Sears or J. C. Higgins name. The Long Tom was a cheap single-barrel shotgun sold from the 1890s to the 1920s. It was probably made by the Batavia company in Batavia, New York. They made a lot of shotguns for both Sears & Montgomery Ward. Unless the metal's in absolutely pristine condition, it's probably not worth finding a stock & forearm for it. It'll cost you about as much to have the thing restocked by a gunsmith as it would cost you to buy a new, much more reliable single-shot shotgun. If you're determined & you're a skilled woodworker, Dixie Gun Works (www.dixiegunworks.com) has stock and forearm blanks for sale. If you have all the hardware--& you're a skilled woodworker--you can probably make some of their stuff fit. TexasCharley -- Meridan Firearms -- Meridan Firearms is the manufacturer that was owned by Sears for a brief period. They did make pocket pistols, but also single-shot and double-barrel shotguns and boy's rifles which were sold not only by Sears but by other catalog stores as well (Wards for one). They also imported Belgian shotguns. Sears sold the Meriden plant to Westinghouse in 1915, and it is believed gunmaking stopped at that time.