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Serial Number Dating a T/C

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If it will help give you some perspective, my .50 cal. T/C Hawkin flintlock was bought new in 1975 and is in the high 10,000's for serial number.
 
Below are numbers from my records. The used number most likely will not help you much.

Renegade 54, bought used in 1983, #26XXX
Renegade 54, bought new in 1992, #319XXX
Renegade 50, bought new in 1993, #353XXX (kit)
Renegade 54, bought used in 2002, #127XXX
Renegade 56, bought used in 2006, #191XXX

Hawken 45, bought new in 2006, #481XXX

1” 54 Roundball barrel, bought new in 1983, #51XX

Patriot 45 pistol, bought new in 1983, #28XXX

New Englander 12 guage, bought new 1992, #6XXX

RDE
 
Maybe everyone who has a TC Hawken that was purchased new could post the serial number. We may not be able to determine a specific date of manufacture but we should be able to narrow it to a small date range.


Jim
 
pepperbelly said:
Maybe everyone who has a TC Hawken that was purchased new could post the serial number. We may not be able to determine a specific date of manufacture but we should be able to narrow it to a small date range.
Jim
Actually, I just remembered we started that very thing a year or so ago...check up top in the MLF library section for something like that.
 
I have a .50 Hawken built from a kit. Got it in February of 1993..serial # is 470717.. Hank
 
My Renegade .50, bought used is #187xxx.
It still has the high hammer. Appx when did T/C switch hammer styles? That might narrow it down a bit.
 
Here is mine:

Thompson Center Renegade .54 Cal #357xxx, Bought in 1992 as a kit.

Eventually we should built a table as someone already mentioned above.
 
Oh, I just one an auction for a T/C Hawken too. Serial number #488xxx, which means it is pretty new and might have the QBL barrel. :hmm:
 
roundball,
Couldn't find that link anywhere. Maybe I'm covering old ground.
If there's enough interest ,the members here can maybe start some sort of data base for T/C #s to get an idea of year of production. Make it a sticky perhaps? :hmm:
 
My son's T/C Hawken, .45 cal, and picked up at a pawn shop, has a serial numb. of 50xxx. By the dates Richard posted I would venture a guess it was manufactured in the mid 1980's...
Scott
 
I talked with T/C about their s/n system just last week. Lady there asked one of the techs and he said they started with 1000 with their "commercial offerings" around 1970. Best bet is to search the strings here to get a rough idea of the ranges from actual purchases. (Might make a good sticky string.) That won't be exact but it will give you ballpark.

I think that a lot of things other than parts and equipment went up in that fire. T?C seems to use it as a one size fits all convenient answer.
 
pepperbelly said:
Maybe everyone who has a TC Hawken that was purchased new could post the serial number. We may not be able to determine a specific date of manufacture but we should be able to narrow it to a small date range.
Jim

Some of us started trying to do this back in July 2006, but it didn't get very far. Nor was it made into a sticky because there was concerns on the validity of the information coming only from the memories of members. In as much as the exact documented information will NEVER be avaialble (with the records lost in the TC fire), IMO this would have still been useful information to make readily available even if only to ball park date a TC from. Better than nothing.

Another better than nothing... I started putting together my own doc file from posts made on these forums whenever someone had included that kind of information and I saw the thread.

Here's the link to that old paliver... ? TC ID
 
I just looked up receipts:

T/C .50 cap Hawken kit bought new April 12, 1977
serial number: K51XXX

.54 flint Renegade bought new December 22, 1979
serial number: 52XXX

All my other T/C's were bought used, so info on them would be useless.
 
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