I'm in a bind, need help!

[Brad]

I was on here long ago and was talking with you guys about me building a flintlock, well got all my stuff, and the guy who was to help me passed away, the other guy his family told me could help is having heart problems. So here i am muzzleloader in parts and the seasons almost 1 month away for us here in Pa. The stuff was all a fit in for a tc hawken but better parts like l&r lock,green mt. barrel, davis trigger, and my stock is the replacement stock for the tc hawken in currly maple(rough cut) i got this all from track of the wolf. I was figuring if i could just find a tc hawken stock that had parts already installed i could just buy the stock used from someone and put my stuff on that way i would be able to sight in and use this gun for the season. thanks i greatly apreciate it.

 

[Zonie]

Your game plan sounds pretty good except you might need more than just the wood? and your schedule is very tight.

I don't know if you have a hooked breach (the part that goes into the wood), trigger guard, trigger and butt plate.

One thought is for you to check out the pawn shops to see if you can find a beat up TC Hawken or Renegade. If you could find one cheap, that would supply you with the above parts to get you thru the immediate problem.
Then when you get time, you could work on your new stock etc, put the old gun back together and sell if for about what you payed for it.

Even with the used gun for a starting place, you will have to deepen the wood for the new locks to accomodate the flat spring on your new lock.

Might work, but you are going to be busier than a one armed paperhanger with the hives.

Anyone see anything wrong with this idea???

 

[jrdavis]

Their are several on ebay right now. TC Hawken stocks that is!
Is anything done on your stock? barrel channel cut?
or do you just have a profile cut out?

 

[Brad]

yeh that's what i need, the stock, i have all the parts for the gun i was going to build(xcept the butt plate), i figured maybee if i find a used tc hawken stock my parts would fit up, them being drop in replacement parts for the tc hawken they should fit rite in? then i could put my parts on sight in and use the hawken stock for now. My barrel is in the whit but i had some one install the sights, under rib, and lug, on it's in the white but i don't care i can brown it some other time.

 

[Brad]

davis, yes the stock is cut out for the barrel and the tang, lock, but very rough cut nothing actually fits up except the trigger, i've never built one before, i started setting in the lock but go worried, i did'nt want to screw up a $140 dollar piece of wood.

 

Your game plan sounds pretty good except you might need more than just the wood? and your schedule is very tight.

I don't know if you have a hooked breach (the part that goes into the wood), trigger guard, trigger and butt plate.

One thought is for you to check out the pawn shops to see if you can find a beat up TC Hawken or Renegade. If you could find one cheap, that would supply you with the above parts to get you thru the immediate problem.
Then when you get time, you could work on your new stock etc, put the old gun back together and sell if for about what you payed for it.

Even with the used gun for a starting place, you will have to deepen the wood for the new locks to accomodate the flat spring on your new lock.

Might work, but you are going to be busier than a one armed paperhanger with the hives.

Anyone see anything wrong with this idea???

I think yore advice is very good. Not only will he git to compare how the "parts" should fit with a real "live" pattern, he can also "shoot, or, hunt with" his pattern!! :thumbsup:

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