![]() Their smith only saw two of the laminated stocked Hawkens but guessed up to eight were made. So I called and had a nice long conversation with Dianna about this and several other current things at TC. I still had doubts though just from considering that TC never put serial numbers on the furniture of any of their other traditional models, or any of the parts of their Contenders, Encores, etc. Thanks for the update tendoy, and for bringing the topic up in the first place. As far as I know those three not with laminates though - their stocks were more along the lines of higher grade woods. Pecatonica River, Chambers, Tiger Hunt and I'd bet many others have offered precut stocks for the TC Hawken. 1985) if I wanted something different myself. Regardless, a laminated stock on a traditional TC Hawken is just wrong! I'd rather have a TC Hawken Cougar (c. TC is often credited for reviving so called tradtional muzzleloading to a larger scale with their Hawken model, so it would surprise me if such a nontraditional stock was made by them especially in the early years that their Hawkens were produced. Doesn't mean there might not have been a small, limited factory run, just that I never saw or heard of any. Nor did TC engrave serial numbers on their furniture that I've ever seen, so that sort of lends to rifles reworked by somebody maybe. TC's first Hawken came out summer of 1970, so if that gal remembers right on no laminate Hawkens since 1977, it would have had to be within that first 6-7 year period to be "factory".Ī laminate stock model doesn't show up in any of my collection of old TC catalog's, and I don't remember any of them myself despite getting my first TC Hawken soon after they came out and owning a few more pretty much ever since. Does anyone else out there have a TC Hawken with a factory laminated stock? Since I took the rifle apart and found the matching serial numbers on the brass parts and the stock, I've been interested in trying to find out where the stock came from. There is one gunsmith who will be back Monday who has worked there longer than her and she said she would ask him if he remembered such a thing. I called TC today to ask about the stock and the woman I talked to said she had worked there since 1977 and had never seen a Hawken with a laminated stock. The friend moved and I'm trying to track him down to ask him if I remember right. All of the furniture fits really well and the major brass pieces have an engraved serial number which matches a serial number tag glued to the stock under the trigger guard. I seem to remember him saying that his brother bought one like it at the same time. The rifle has a brown laminated stock and I am pretty sure I remember my friend telling me that he bought the rifle new with the stock already on it. I'll send the link in a future post.I bought a TC Hawken some years back from a friend I worked with. They had an early rifle boring set up that fascinated me for a long while. ![]() What an absolute gem for a firearm guy!! This is the place where the very first interchangeable parts firearms where designed and built with machines that could maintain the accuracy required. Bored with shopping, I found The American Precision Museum in Windsor VT. Wife Susan and I vacationed in Vermont a few years ago. I'm a retired techie, microwave communication engineer and marketing. I'd love to see the posts that contain the equipment that you use. (Could this rifle have been miss-bored at the TC factory?) Please comment on my measurement results when you have time. Measured the rifle twist and bores of a 50 caliber TC Renegade flintlock and the mystery rifle, a mismarked TC percussion Hawken. Says the student to the Master, "lot easier accurately measuring across the groves than across the lands!"
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