I’ve picked up a number of Fadala’s manuals over the years and recall no specific article on the TC 56 smooth bore, though he did mention it in a few articles on hunting with smooth bores as I recall, probably a few paragraphs or a page at most on the TC. He did however, use the TC for some load testing as I remember.
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Didn’t know that Fadala authored articles for any of the Lyman Handbooks. Currently only have copies of the Lyman 1st edition, and I seem to remember that Lyman had scrubbed out most articles on non-Lyman guns in the 2nd edition, but my copy went down the road years ago, so I guess my memory is mistaken. Learn something new everyday.
Come to Massachusetts,
That’s a version of the article I was referring to in post #5 above, just with a different title (‘The Smooth Bore Hunting Rifle’) and opening sentence. There has to be half a dozen or more variations out there of that article and most any other one that he wrote. From your OP, I thought you were looking for an article Fadala wrote about the TC 56 smoothbore, and this article really has only a few paragraphs about the TC.Well, I managed to get my hands on the Fadala article. You folks may disagree, but I was disappointed - it seems like a "fluff" piece to me. Five pages long, but very little useful information. I'm attaching a scan of it here - please let me know what you think. Also, let me know if you have trouble opening it - I'm not too checked out with this tech stuff
I grew up in western Ma and the .56 TC was my first bp gun. It was quite accurate and I knocked a few deer over with it with no trouble. Like other things I owned in that era I wish I had kept it.
Me too Ghost.
