TC New Englander length

[straightShot]

What is the overall length of a Thompson Center New Englander? I picked one up in .50, and it appears that the buttstock has been shortened.

 

[smokeum54]

mine measures 42 3/4 from muzzle to middle of butt.

 

[straightShot]

Thank you for measuring your rifle.

Measuring mine from the muzzle to the middle of the buttplate comes in at 41 1/2", and the buttplate extends down beyond the stock about 3/16". I suspect that someone shortened it an inch and a quarter for some reason.

 

[larry wv]

Bought one at a gun show today. It measures 42 1/2 or there about. Larry

 

[straightShot]

Thank you, Larry.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Mine's 44-1/2" overall with the 28" long 12 ga. barrel - it was a kit I finished as long as possible (14" LOP - I'm 6'3" tall). Would be 43-1/2" overall with the .50 rifle barrel.

 

[bubba.50]

ya need to measure the length of pull not the overall length to see if it's been shortened. also ya should able to tell by the buttplate. they're fiited individually to the stock and any shortening would show overhanging metal or grinding/blue touchup on the plate. and for what it's worth new englanders have always seemed short in the pull department to me. luck and have a good'en neighbor, bubba.