Rare TC Stainless Hawken?

[Griz44Mag]

Since we have no pictures and no specific information on the piece in question, all of this is pure conjecture.
For all we know it could be a regular Hawkens with a Winchester barrel cut off and breeched for a muzzleloader.
I have a set of stamps and I'm sure many others here do as well. Who knows what this really is and if it was even a factory barrel to start with?

 

[towgunner11h]

I have a Silver Elite, and everything is stainless, including the lock, and it doesn't have a patch box.

 

[Eric Krewson]

Here is my latest renegade build with a stainless barrel like the one mentioned, OOPS, like the one mentioned it is just in the white, a new old stock kit barrel.

 

[Robert an saa fan]

Agree with bubba.50 and lowgunner11h. Also agree with posters saying T/C did not sell kit guns with stainless barrels.

Now own a second T/C Silver Elite .50 with the stainless barrel and other stainless parts. Sold the first Silver Elite years ago because the warning T/C put on the barrel bothered me.

The original poster wanting a stainless barrel wrote they had a Springfield Hawken which may not have the same barrel diameter as the T/C Hawken plus other fit factors might be an issue.

 

[nkbj]

Well, that's a shor'nuff TC breech and not a stainless GM drop-in.

 

[nkbj]

Recently picked up a pyrodexed Springfield Hawken for a re-do.
Yeah, TC barrel wouldn't go together.

 

[Mad Professor]

Green Mountain made some of their IBS Thompson drop in barrels in stainless. I have one on a Renegade.

 

[ugly old guy]

Magnet sticks! Can’t be stainless bought it of line falsely advertised. Could it be nickel plated? And how do I tell if it has been lined?

Sorry to bust yer bubble, but most stainless steels are magnetic.
Check any of your stainless steel knives of any brand. A magnet will stick to the blade just as well as to any carbon steel blade.

To verify it is stainless, clean and de-grease/de-oil a small surface in a hidden spot. Apply a paper towl soaked in vinegar, and let sit for a hour or three.
If sainless there will not be a forced patina.

BTW "Stainless" steels can rust and stain under certain circumstances.
"Stainless" is actually "Stain - Less".

 

[Eddie2002]

A little battery acid will give stainless a nice patina, did it to a Swiss Army knife blade by accident. The lower quality stainless steels will pit and corrode when exposed to the chlorine found in bleach. Seen stainless steel hot water heaters get destroyed by high city water chlorine levels back when I worked in the medical field.

 

[Grenadier1758]

Stainless is really translated "stain resistant not "rust free".

And a magnet will stick to some stainless steel alloys.

 

[JohnnM257]

Hello I have been searching for years for a stainless barrel for my old pitted Springfield hawken and never had any luck I recently stumbled upon a stainless original made by TC with a “K237719” serial number. I was wondering if anyone knows anything about it. I have scoured the internet and can find no one that has this rifle or any talk of it I was wondering if this was some crazy lost gem or something haha please give me your input....

I know this is a old thread, but Thompson Center made a stainless Hawken rifle

If what you saw had a non-blued lock, thimbles and other parts, it is a stainless Thompson Greyhawk.
They did make a few of them but only for a few years until they got into in-lines (in stainless).
A few pics of the gun in question would help positively identify it..
I felt that the stainless guns failed to sell because of the price and the non-traditional materials.

Thompson Center made a stainless steel Hawken Rifle called the Silver Elite. It's a beautiful rifle. A lot nicer than the TC Greyhawk.

 

[tallPercshooter]

I see people trying to sell old antique revolvers as stainless, when they are nickel plated.

 

[brushblind]

Agree with bubba.50 and lowgunner11h. Also agree with posters saying T/C did not sell kit guns with stainless barrels.

Now own a second T/C Silver Elite .50 with the stainless barrel and other stainless parts. Sold the first Silver Elite years ago because the warning T/C put on the barrel bothered me.

The original poster wanting a stainless barrel wrote they had a Springfield Hawken which may not have the same barrel diameter as the T/C Hawken plus other fit factors might be an issue.

I think Fox Ridge did but no K in ser. no. Also Green Mountain Barrels (drop in) were available in stainless but the sights were different than TC.

 

[JohnnM257]

I just got OutBid today, on GunBroker for this Stainless, Lymen Deerstalker 50cal. I was pretty upset I lost the auction. It's the middle of the month & I couldn't spend more than $430. My high bid was $360 it's $60 shipping & 6% tax, I wish this auction, would have been around pay day. The winning bidder was $365