My dad has an old thompson center muzzleloader that is mint on the outside. But he cleaned the bore and then stored it for about 10 years. The bore is shot. He didn't grease the bore. I was wondering if someone was able to rebore the gun from .50 cal to a .54 cal.
ive got a muzzleloader question
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First off,what model is it,Hawken,encore,or whatever. Thompson would probably rebarrel it to look stock like it never happened. Reboring isnt cheap and I would call them for a quote.
A rebore is about 150-160 plus shipping both ways,
A GM Drop In replacement barrel is 200-220 + and a defenate upgrade from the factory 1-48 twist
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Thompson does have a liftime warrenty for factory flaws/errors and have given alot of leeway for abused bores in the past, They've been bought out by Smith an Wesson (I think) just this last fall and things have changed. I'd call'm or e-mail and see what they say.
You can always try scrubbing the dicken out of it with a brush then patches and JB paste and it might suprise ya and come back to shooting fairly decent again. Remember these olde Traditional rifles aren't modern in-lines and have different ranges and tolerances,
Look on Ebay for barrels, there's usually several at any given time that can be had for around $100 or so, look under "Blackpowder"
A GM Drop In replacement barrel is 200-220 + and a defenate upgrade from the factory 1-48 twist
http://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/TableList.aspx?catID=14&subID=142&styleID=491
Thompson does have a liftime warrenty for factory flaws/errors and have given alot of leeway for abused bores in the past, They've been bought out by Smith an Wesson (I think) just this last fall and things have changed. I'd call'm or e-mail and see what they say.
You can always try scrubbing the dicken out of it with a brush then patches and JB paste and it might suprise ya and come back to shooting fairly decent again. Remember these olde Traditional rifles aren't modern in-lines and have different ranges and tolerances,
Look on Ebay for barrels, there's usually several at any given time that can be had for around $100 or so, look under "Blackpowder"
GM LRH barrel with sabot-ed slugs from a peep sighted flint ignited Hawken almost make me look like I know what I'm doing!
The gun is a hawken style muzzleloader but its an oddball with a half octagon half round long barrrel and the greenmountain barrels are not offered half and half nor that long. I will try thompson center but it hasn't been made in a long time. The bore is flat out gone. I scrubbed it with a brush and a pile of rust approx 1/2" deep fell out. I seriously doubt that thompson still has these barrels laying around. Does anyone know a gunsmith that can do a rebore? Thanks for the help
mshelton
Just go muzzleloaded shotgun and bust some @$$ with it.
Thanks preacher. I will try him out
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