Renegades too if I recall correctly.I need to consult my catalogue pile to be certain but I'm thinking TC did offer a Hawken with a RB barrel as a target/competition rifle as a production offering for a time or from time to time. If that barrel came from the Fox Ridge shop it will have Fox Ridge Custom roll stamped on it.
Look at the custom order stuff if you want a Rice barrel. Still make em to order in several calibers and rifling offerings. So far as I know percussion only and they come in the white.A round ball barrel in .50 caliber for a Thompson Center. What model?
Green Mountain used to offer drop ins and these are likely to most common. They haven't offered them for a number of years as I understand it. I've seen folks mention Rice but I saw nothing in stock last I looked. The T/C custom shop, FOX River I believe, used to sell round ball barrels. If you find a good used T/C Pennsylvania Hunter they came from the factory with a round ball barrel.
Price, I just sold a mint Green Mountain LRH, not for round ball, for $300. I could have asked $400 but I sold it to a friend. Condition is everything, a really good one easily $300 - $400 would be my bet. I also have a Green Mountain round ball barrel I would not sell.
If you can live with a single trigger model the PA Hunter, complete rifle, might be a cost effective option. I've got a PA Hunter Carbine and love it.
I'd like to know the story or details to go with that. The production Penn. Hunter barrels were all half round. Did they offer a full octagon through Fox Ridge? TC did make a run of target/competition Penn Hunters that show up in a catalogue for one year. The sights and barrel were the difference, wonder if what you bought is one of those. You guys are going to make me dig those back out and then continue the search for the missing box with the Fox Ridge catalogues.Yes, FOX Ridge, not FOX River, was the T/C custom shop.
T/C 1 in 66 barrel for $300 sound like a fair deal, good score.
I do have a barrel I'd ordered from FOX Ridge for a T/C Hawken. It's full octagon and 28" and drops into the stock perfectly however it is marked Pennsylvania Hunter. It is not stamped 1 in 66. My order was for a 1 in 66 barrel. I can't recall if it is a QLA like my later PA Hunter full octagon 28" and PA Hunter Carbine flintlocks have.
That’s a great price in my opinion. They are not super rare but definitely less common than the standard barrel. I don’t believe they were a custom shop item but I’ve seen custom shop guns wearing them. Also the ones I’ve handled were all deep groove and shot nicely. I still have a 54 cal 1-66 factory round ball barrel packaged up somewhere. Let us know how it shoots.It does not say Custom Shop on it. It does have a roll stamp that says Round Ball and 1-66 Twist that is enclosed by a signal line frame with scrolls on each end. Looking on the internet I see a few of these barrels have been for sale at various times. Not a Penn Hunter barrel either as those were so marked. Any way I was looking for a RB barrel and found this one and am happy. I am unhappy I did not order the GM one from TOW back a few years ago when they actually had them to sell. But how do you know the future?
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