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Originally Posted by John Sabato
Yours must be an early one... I owned the same rifle as a child and it had the grooves to mount a .22 scope. The old Weaver N3 mount is what you need, but you probably have to drill and tap for the screws into your receiver.
Here is a photo of the mount, and also a photo of the mount that is attached to a .22 rifle of similar vintage...
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That looks like my tube-fed 22 Stevens, and even has the same steel-strap trigger guard.
The receiver looks different from the Higgins [pic below] but the N3 looks like it would work. I had forgotten that the N3 used 7/8" scopes. Do they even make 7/8" scopes today???