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Author Topic: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?  (Read 41089 times)

Offline Salty

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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #285 on: November 19, 2024, 11:40:19 AM »
Yes!
I will be again as soon as I get my barrel back from Bobby Hoyt. Soon I hope.
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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #286 on: November 19, 2024, 12:22:17 PM »
I will as well as long as I can get across the creek for the 100 yd range.
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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #287 on: November 19, 2024, 10:15:35 PM »
If Clementine can beat Drachenfeuer or the new kid, Mort R, to the SUV it'll be her last chance (oh yeah, mine too). My best hope might be to fill Mort's belly with some 00 buck and give that a whirl.
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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #288 on: November 20, 2024, 06:17:16 AM »
I'll try again come spring ..
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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #289 on: November 20, 2024, 01:52:54 PM »
I should try again with my Kibler SMR .40. I sold the T/C Hawken I made the first with.
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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #290 on: November 20, 2024, 01:58:22 PM »
I've tried to sell my TC a couple times, always glad later that I didn't
 Maybe the new revived Thompson Center will offer the hawken once more.
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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #291 on: November 20, 2024, 02:31:40 PM »
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Maybe the new revived Thompson Center will offer the hawken once more.

Or, the way they were going before S&W bought them, it will probably be an inline with the Hawken name on it.  :scared:

Over the last many years, I have owned quite a few T/C's.  In retrospect, I have always been pi$$ed that I sold them.  What was I ever thinking?  In terms of original cost with the value of winnings with them, it was always a profitable deal, but darn, I really liked some of them.  Especially my first Renegade.  By the time I was through with it, it really didn't look like a TC, and with the 36" Douglas Premium barrel on it, it didn't really shoot like one, either.  Last I heard, it went to Texas in 1984 or so.  Bye bye.
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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #292 on: November 20, 2024, 02:58:29 PM »
I still have all my TC's.  Last count was 1 New Englander, 5 Hawkens and 3 Renegades and the unmentionable Fire Hawk.  One of my Renegades is hardly a TC anymore either.  It has two .62 barrels one rifled and one smooth.  Sports a Brad Emig tuned L&R lock and a full stock curly maple replacement stock for it.  One of these days I should probably put them up for sale as I am not getting any younger and have stopped hunting.     :bigsmile:

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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #293 on: November 21, 2024, 12:25:48 PM »
Well, I developed a powerful fondness for Longrifles especially flintlocks. I kept my T/C Hawken Flintlock ,50 and sold off the .45 and .36s. was that a mistake? I don't think so, I haven't regretted it yet. I have developed a case of Kibler-itis, though.
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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #294 on: November 21, 2024, 12:37:20 PM »
Ooh kiblers. Niiicccce
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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #295 on: December 02, 2024, 11:06:39 AM »
One of my Renegades is hardly a TC anymore either.  It has two .62 barrels one rifled and one smooth.  Sports a Brad Emig tuned L&R lock and a full stock curly maple replacement stock for it.  One of these days I should probably put them up for sale as I am not getting any younger and have stopped hunting.     :bigsmile:

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It’s hell getting old, ain’t it?

Perhaps when I’m a little more flush, I can relieve you of that .62 cal!

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Re: Are you up to a Revolutionary sized personal challenge?
« Reply #296 on: December 02, 2024, 05:27:27 PM »
One of my Renegades is hardly a TC anymore either.  It has two .62 barrels one rifled and one smooth.  Sports a Brad Emig tuned L&R lock and a full stock curly maple replacement stock for it. 

One time, for chuckles and grins, we rebarreled a Renegade with a .62 cal barrel with Forsythe type rifling.  It was a bit uncomfortable shooting with a 150 grain charge.  Tried it with 200 grains and went home to put some ice on the bruising.  That wasn't a chuckle or a grin.  It just hurt.
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