TC Muzzleloader, traditional styles

[dwarvenchef]

I know I brought this up on another thread, but I seem to be braodening the scope now.

Is there anywhere I can look up past T/C traditional style ML's made and when? I thought TCA would be a good place to look but it seems you need to be a member even to see what is behind the door. (If I knew more than what their front page says I may join.) I'm a collect-aholic and this seemed like a fun set to look for.

 

[WV MZL HUNTER]

I hope you get some answers. I have three Limited T/C Guns and I would like to get involved with the members. :hmm:

 

[roundball]

FWIW, here's a quick reference list of TC's muzzleloaders as best I can remember them:

Big Boar
Black Diamond
Black Mountain
Cherokee
Cleland
Cougar
Encore
FireHawk
FireStorm
G2
Greyhawk
Hawken
High Plains Sporter
New Englander
Omega
PA Hunter
Patriot Pistol
Renegade
Scout
Seneca
Shadow
Silver Elite
System 1
Thunder Hawk
Tree Hawk
White Mountain Carbine

 

[WV MZL HUNTER]

Buckeye Hunter was another one, I have it.
T/C said they make them for the Ohio Big Buck Club. JSG stamped on the barrel. Jerrys Sporting Goods. Made a little over 600 only. :hatsoff:

 

[dwarvenchef]

600 production? Thats a good one... I just bought the 3rd edition bluebook of modern black powder arms. I was refered to it as a source. Thanks a ton of that list it will help me keep an eye out there for good deals. I'm not going to kill myself off trying to find NiB's of these but would like them to be clean shooters.

 

[WV MZL HUNTER]

If you call T/C they will tell you that they made a gun called Buckeye hunter. If I knew how to put a picture on this form I would.
I called them a while back and they told me they made just over 600 of these guns. It may be simple to get pictures on this form but I don't know how, yet. :winking:
Stumpkiller tried to help me out on how to send a picture using photobucket but I still am not sure how to get it on this form. I need to spend more time on it.

 

[WV MZL HUNTER]

I did not post my E mail address on this form.
I can put a picture on my E mail but I do not how to on this form. I will send anyone that wants a picture of this gun to them if I have a address.

Thanks

 

[WV MZL HUNTER]

I sent White Buffalo some pictures I hope he can post them for me. They show the Buckeye Hunter and some others that I shoot. :thumbsup:

Take a kid hunting and you will not have to hunt for your kid.

 

[bob1961]

here they are...................bob

 

[Pork Chop]

Neat! Truth be known, the ones that have parts "in the white" look really slick to me. Too bad the sights are still black on that third one down...

 

[dwarvenchef]

Very nice set :hatsoff: I really like the way the S parts stand out on the walnut stocks.

Thanks for showing us these purdies :thumbsup:

 

[roundball]

"...the ones that have parts "in the white" look really slick to me..."

(stainless)

Top is a Hawken Cougar, next is a Hawken Silver Elite

 

[WV MZL HUNTER]

It took me a few years to get these by the wife.
:rotf: The bottom one is the Buckeye Hunter that T/C made a few of. :thumbsup:
Thanks
White Buffalo for posting these for me.

 

[tg]

When did TC start making traditional styled guns? (VBG)

 

[Zonie]

When did TC start making traditional styled guns? (VBG)

As we all know, a sidelock rifle is considered by most of us as being "traditional" in style.

As some of us know, there actually were rifles made in the mid 1800s which looked quite a bit like the Thompson Center "Hawken". Many of these guns were made in California.

But to answer your question, Thompson Center started making firearms in 1967. By 1972, the TC "Hawken" was refered to in the book BLACK POWDER GUN DIGEST (copyright MCMLXXII By Digest Books, Inc. Northfield, Ill) pp 132-139.

The article in this book on the TC "Hawken" mentions that rifles made prior to 1972 had a color case hardened Trigger Guard. Now, I bet there's something even roundball doesn't have. :grin:

 

[roundball]

When did TC start making traditional styled guns? (VBG)

As we all know, a sidelock rifle is considered by most of us as being "traditional" in style.

As some of us know, there actually were rifles made in the mid 1800s which looked quite a bit like the Thompson Center "Hawken". Many of these guns were made in California.

But to answer your question, Thompson Center started making firearms in 1967. By 1972, the TC "Hawken" was refered to in the book BLACK POWDER GUN DIGEST (copyright MCMLXXII By Digest Books, Inc. Northfield, Ill) pp 132-139.

The article in this book on the TC "Hawken" mentions that rifles made prior to 1972 had a color case hardened Trigger Guard. Now, I bet there's something even roundball doesn't have. :grin:

All very well said...and right you are...I've seen mention of the case color trigger guard but have never actually seen one...

 

[tg]

I couldn't resist Bill......I have owned several over the years and they are reliable well made guns, my dad still has the one he bought the second year they came out, I passed on my cousins when his wife offered to give it to me a few years ago after he passed away,it was the first years production, I knew a friend of both my cousin and myself who had always eyed that gun and arrainged a very good deal for him on the gun.

 

[roundball]

I couldn't resist Bill......

:grin:

 

[dwarvenchef]

Wow that would be a keep sake for me. I still use my first ML (tc hawken 50), Soon I will call tc to get a date of manufacture on it just cause. Even though the TC may not follow and style, all the Hawken types they make over the years just fit me so well. I have a hard time getting other factory produced rifles to feel as good to me.

I had a brain fart this week thinking about all the after market parts being made for TC Hawkens. It seems you could build a full rifle from these parts. I just found that to be funny, Has anyone else thought of this or done it?

 

[Mike Brooks]

When did TC start making traditional styled guns? (VBG)

I was wondering the same thing, but was too afraid to ask. :winking: