T/C Hawken kit year of production

[Dan Fangle]

Does anyone know the years of production for Hawken Kit guns. Talkin' bout .50 Cal.

The factory wrote back and said all their records went up in flames, back when the fire happened.

Just curious about what year Chevy I'm driving around.

 

[roundball]

Does anyone know the years of production for Hawken Kit guns. Talkin' bout .50 Cal.

The factory wrote back and said all their records went up in flames, back when the fire happened.

Just curious about what year Chevy I'm driving around.

TC has made kits available for decades...one way you might find it is to look carefully at every square inch of the TC cardboard box in case there might have been a date penciled in somewhere on it by a stock clerk, etc...also look closely on anything inside for the same thing...maybe even an original receipt

 

[Mac Attack]

I called T/C and asked if they could date my recently acquired Hawken rifle. The person I spoke with said a couple of years ago they had a fire and lost all of the Hawken records.

The only way I can figure to date a rifle is to see if anyone has a rifle with a serial number close to yours. Of course the owner would have to know when he purchased his rifle. This will put you within a year or two of production.

 

[roundball]

"...I called T/C and asked if they could date my recently acquired Hawken rifle. The person I spoke with said a couple of years ago they had a fire and lost all of the Hawken records.

The fire was March 27, 1997...right at 11 years ago...destroyed a third of all the plant buildings.

 

[paulvallandigham]

An unconfirmed rumor has it that the fire was " Accidentally " started by a man who had been hired to do " a little paperwork", and instead found himself the archivist, answering hundreds of questions each week from customers wanting to know when their gun was built. Seems a cigarette he thought he put out, may not have been, when he left for the night, leaving it behind in a huge room full of all the T/C production records......

And further rumor has it he was so ashamed that he might have caused the fire, that he resigned and left town and has never been heard from again!

That is his story and he's sticking to it! :surrender: :rotf: :thumbsup:

 

[Walks Alone]

Imagine being the gent who changed the companies future forever Paul, with hundreds of thousands of loyal customers not very happy with you. :redface: Interesting rumor that will probably stay unconfirmed though.

I didn't see Tim Pancurak and Ken French after the fire until the 1998 SHOT Show, but neither would pry loose much information about the fire. Same results at the 2000 show. Ken was leaving them soon, but they both were always real good about filling me in on inside information from TC (I had known them personally for many years). I guess the fire is something TC just considers better forgotten.

Still think if they would retool and bring back the Seneca they'd have a real winner with lots of new sales generated. Won't happen, but its an excellent starter rifle and still in demand enough to bring the higher prices.

 

[paulvallandigham]

I know that T/C has never disclosed what happened with that fire. It may be that they don't know either. A lot of fires are never determined as to what might have caused them, for a number of reasons.

All the rest is just something I made up, because we constantly see people here, and on other sights asking how they can find out when their early T/C was manufacturered. I just imagined being a guy looking for a job, with some education, and all of a sudden he is getting dozens of phone calls a day, and hundreds of emails and letters asking the same question, and there are not enough hours in the day to answer them. There are two ways to deal with that kind of job. Quit, and leave the misery to the next dumby who get hired to do the work, or get careless with a cigarette, and terminate the problem all together, and then leave. When the people in charge won't tell folks what they know, they leave room for all of us to speculate. Anybody can play the " What if " game. How do you think they get writers in Hollywood? :blah: :rotf: :thumbsup: