TC Tang Bolt, can you install one.

[Eric Krewson]

I have a TC Hawken stock with a GM drop in barrel, I made a peep sight for the gun because of my old eyes but can't get enough torque on the wood screw in the tang to hold it in place firmly without stripping the wood screw.

Have any of you guys drilled through to the trigger plate and put a regular tang bolt in that threaded into the trigger plate? I have built enough guns to be able to do this easily but don't know if there is an unseen design problem that would prevent me from doing so.

I put this on my Beck rifle, one screw keeps it in place.

 

[ohio ramrod]

A quick check should tell you if there is anything other than wood in the area you will be drilling through.

 

[deerstalkert]

the forward bolt in the tang of my TC Hawken flinter goes all the way through and threads into the trigger plate and trigger guard.

 

[EC121]

Drill out the bottom of the screw hole with a 1/16" bit. See where it hits the trigger bar. The bit is small enough that it won't hurt anything. You might also epoxy a nut up in the trigger inlet.

 

[Notchy Bob]

Drill out the bottom of the screw hole with a 1/16" bit. See where it hits the trigger bar. The bit is small enough that it won't hurt anything. You might also epoxy a nut up in the trigger inlet.

That's a good suggestion. I have a flintlock fowling piece that came with a wood screw in the tang. This gun had the trigger mounted on the plate instead of a pin through the stock, and the inlet was kind of sloppy, allowing the "trigger group" to drift posteriorly and the trigger would bind up on the back end of the triggerguard bow. Fortunately, the gunsmith had drilled his pilot hole all the way through the stock. I carefully ran a small bit down there and it left a mark on the trigger plate, happily in the best possible place. I put it all back together and drilled on through with the appropriate bit, and tapped the hole in the plate for an 8/32 machine screw. Nothing shifts now.

I don't think it would hurt anything to do exactly as @EC121 suggests, to mark your trigger plate and see where the hole would land.

Best regards,

Notchy Bob

 

[bubba.50]

Pretty easy to drill & tap into the trigger guard using the front tang hole location. But would require the use of Davis Deerslayers or triggers from a later model that used a reinforcing bolt through the stock. I believe the factory used a 10x32 screw but you could probably get by with an 8x32.

 

[Eric Krewson]

I use a drilling spike for tang bolt holes, easy to hit where you want it to go. Good to hear it has been done, this will be one of my rainy day projects during deer season.