After looking for two years or so and after wanting one when they first came out, I finally bought a TC Seneca. I just never got one back when TC made them. Something always came up and than TC quit making them a long time ago.
I was holding out for a 36 cal but they are very hard to find. I did find one 32 cal in the past two years but it was very expensive being $600 dollars. And a 2 digit serial number, never fired one for a grand ($1000 !) I settled on this little 45 cal but the description presented and my definition of the words used to describe it are very much different.
It was supposed to have the “usual handling marks and nicks”. Right!? None of my guns have that much in the way of 'handling marks'! I don't see how the lock functioned with all the gunk a real testament to TC's design, I guess. There was some thick brown pastie substance in the lock area and barrel channel that I have no idea what it was. You could barely move the ram rod, let alone pull it out.
All of that is fixed now but it is bad outside today and good photos are difficult but here are a couple I just couldn't wait to show. The rifle is a pleasure and it is real nice looking These are small frame guns and a change from the full size rifles normally found.
And the now thoroughly disassembled and cleaned lock and trigger group.
Yes I had to re-blue touch up the lock plate. I tried to keep as much case hardening as possible.
I was holding out for a 36 cal but they are very hard to find. I did find one 32 cal in the past two years but it was very expensive being $600 dollars. And a 2 digit serial number, never fired one for a grand ($1000 !) I settled on this little 45 cal but the description presented and my definition of the words used to describe it are very much different.
It was supposed to have the “usual handling marks and nicks”. Right!? None of my guns have that much in the way of 'handling marks'! I don't see how the lock functioned with all the gunk a real testament to TC's design, I guess. There was some thick brown pastie substance in the lock area and barrel channel that I have no idea what it was. You could barely move the ram rod, let alone pull it out.
All of that is fixed now but it is bad outside today and good photos are difficult but here are a couple I just couldn't wait to show. The rifle is a pleasure and it is real nice looking These are small frame guns and a change from the full size rifles normally found.
And the now thoroughly disassembled and cleaned lock and trigger group.
Yes I had to re-blue touch up the lock plate. I tried to keep as much case hardening as possible.
