T/C Pennsylvania Hunter advice ?

Getting out of caplocks and want to give flintlock shooting a try. I want to build a rifle but until then I want to purchase a flintlock to become familiar with them. I am looking at a T/C Pennsylvania Hunter. It is a .50 cal flintlock. Anyone used this piece? I owned a T/C Hawken caplock and it was a great shooter and very well built. Just wondering how well the T/C flintlocks fair? The pricing of the Pennsylvania Hunter is within my budget. Thanks for your advice in advance!

 

[musketman]

I had a T/C Renagade flintlock in .54 caliber...

I had no regrets with the T/C flintlock, the muzzleloader did everything I expected of it without a problem...

I gave it away to a friend of mine who was wanting to get into muzzleloading, but couldn't afford to buy a flintlock back in 1986...

He still has it to this day...

T/C's are good muzzleloaders, as well the Lyman GPR's...

p.s. Nice name, reminds me of myself, when I was just a kid...

 

[roundball]

The Penn Hunter, Hawken, Renegade, all use the same flintlock assembly...the other differences between those models is simply shape, style, signle trigger vs double trigger, etc.
PS: TC has redesigned their flintlock assemblies within the recent few years and they are now perfect...have several and they're all outstanding

 

Thanks for the advice. I am pretty much set on the T/C brand. I noticed the flinlock Hawken has 1 in 48 inch twist. Any experience shooting this twist with round balls? I really don't want to shoot conicals. Just patch and ball. Thanks again.

Scott

 

[musketman]

quote:Originally posted by Musketboy:
I noticed the flinlock Hawken has 1 in 48 inch twist.The 1-48 twist will shoot round balls too, you just have to experiment with different loads (charge sizes & different lubes) until you find one that works well...

MSM Inc. makes a 1-66 drop-in barrel for the T/C Pennsylvania Hunter... Item #18894
http://www.msmfg.com/images/97catpg13c.pdf

 

[RJR]

Musketboy, glad to have you join us. If you have a TC Hawken now, why not get a GM drop in barrel in .50 flint and either a TC lock or L&R RPL lock? This is what I did for my Lyman Trade Rifle. Take care, Rick.

 

[lonewolf5347]

Musketboy I have a t/c flinter hawkens 1 in 48 twist that I love to shoot.I perfer conicals bullets and sabot bullets @ let me say the 1 in 48 twist will shoot sabot .The big improvement I did to the t/c lock was to change the t/c frizzen to a lyman frizzen.
What a improvement can't remember the last time I had a misfire,t/c also has a great warranty on there guns
T/C Pennsylvania Hunter with I think a 1 in 66 twist for round ball also a short conical bullet will work.

 

[roundball]

TC standard 1:48 twist barrels shoot full power round balls loads very accurately, and I just completed some side by side tests in December to prove it to myself, using my TC 1:66 round ball barrels and standard 1:48" TC barrels.

I shot 90grns Goex FFFg with Hornady patch balls in .45, .50, and .54calibers, and if you shuffled the targets like a deck of cards, I would have had to pause to look at the targets to notice the slight difference between RB and standard barrels to identify which was which.

TC's Fox Ridge store carry's the TC 32" long 1:66" twist round ball barrels in both .50cal and .54cal, percussion and flint...1-800-243-4570

 

Okay, you all have me thinking now with all of the opions offered! I did sell my caplock Hawken to my brother (at a real good price mind you) and he won't sell it back or trade for it. The TRAITOR! Haw.

I looked up the Fox Ridge website and was suprised to see all of the different combinations of barrels. I think I found what I am looking for. I really liked the Hawken so I am going to get a Hawken flintlock and order a round ball barrel and play with both the 1-48 and 1-66 barrels. Great website with friendly people and sound advice!

TNX,
Scott

 

[roundball]

If you call Fox Ridge, I get the best results when I work with Ms. Rae DesRosiers...and I would also suggest you specifcy a round ball barrel WITHOUT the QLA muzzle feature.

It wastes an inch of rifling and is of no value what-so-ever when all you're loading is a perfectly round ball in the first place...you don't need any false muzzle to align it like a conical.

She's cut work orders for all my RB barrels to skip making the QLA...they all have normal rifling the full length.

Suggest you call 800-243-4570, select option #3, and ask for Rae DesRosiers...if she's off that day, wait until she returns...tell her you were referred to her by a guy in North Carolina who thinks she's the best thing since sliced bread!!

 

[LRB]

I would not order the qla feature either, however it would serve a useful purpose in that it would be a built in muzzle protector and assuming it was cut in true one should never have to have the muzzle recrowned, and it does no harm to accuracy or velocity since you only lose an inch. Something to consider.

 

[roundball]

I found them to be a PITA to try an load a PBR because I often lost control over it as it began free falling down that false muzzle and sometimes the ball would end up off center on the patch;

In addition, once it drops down into the false muzzle, you can no longer reach it and therefore cannot thumbstart it into the rifling because you can't touch/reach it...so it's just lying on top of the rifling and every ball has to be started with a short starter, then the ramrod, etc.

I was so disgusted with it after one trip to the range I called Fox Ridge and they exchanged it with a barrel w/o the QLA.