Rare TC Stainless Hawken?

Hello I have been searching for years for a stainless barrel for my old pitted Springfield hawken and never had any luck I recently stumbled upon a stainless original made by TC with a “K237719” serial number. I was wondering if anyone knows anything about it. I have scoured the internet and can find no one that has this rifle or any talk of it I was wondering if this was some crazy lost gem or something haha please give me your input....

Magnet sticks! Can’t be stainless bought it of line falsely advertised. Could it be nickel plated? And how do I tell if it has been lined?

Many stainless alloys are magnetic. Don't let that fool you.
The rifle in question is the TC Greyhawk. Made exactly like the regular Hawkens.
I had one briefly, but was made a great offer on it and doubled my money on it without ever firing it.

Many stainless steel alloys are magnetic...

The 'K' in the serial # means it was a kit. Magnets will stick to 400 series stainless steel IIRC. It has a higher carbon content and is used to make knife blades, (good ones that take a temper).

The barrel you seek _
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Thompson-C...254154?hash=item2a786112ca:g:VhgAAOSwFqJWmqlY

Dale Eger said:

Magnet sticks! Can’t be stainless bought it of line falsely advertised. Could it be nickel plated? And how do I tell if it has been lined?

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Generally, ferrific and martensitic stainless will be magnetic, while austenitic stainless typically is non magnetic.

Can you post a clear photograph of what is stamped on barrel?

no what you have is a kit hawken and someone did not finish the barrel. The K in the serial number indicated Kit.

Frontier's said:

no what you have is a kit hawken and someone did not finish the barrel. The K in the serial number indicated Kit.

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Might be stainless, but don’t know if they made kits with stainless. Carbon steel typically starts to freckle up pretty quick.

Unfinished kit gun barrel. Or as they say, ‘in-the-white’.

no kits ever came with a stainless steel barrel. Use some cold blue on it and you'll see if its stainless steel in a big hurry.

I have rifle that was supposed to have a SS barrel. Took it out and shot it, cleaned it, put it in a case, took it out the next day and the outside was starting to get a good rust bloom on it. Ended up being a non SS barrel that was sold new as stainless.

Fleener

If what you saw had a non-blued lock, thimbles and other parts, it is a stainless Thompson Greyhawk.
They did make a few of them but only for a few years until they got into in-lines (in stainless).
A few pics of the gun in question would help positively identify it..
I felt that the stainless guns failed to sell because of the price and the non-traditional materials.

It honestly appears to me (by your photo and serial number) to be a kit gun, with the barrel left “in the white.”
Walk

I would be very surprised if a K serial number TC. hawkin barrel is stainless. That would be a rarity. But, strange things have happened in the kit world. In the early days of kits I have seen Us barrels and cheap Spanish locks . As of now I have a Kit TC that was assembled well, but has some sort of cheap Italian flint lock on it. Whether the lock came with the kit originally;: I have no way of knowing.

I'd also say it is probably a kit gun left "in the white".
Could possibly be a Greyhawk barrel on it?
A TC hawken barrel is 28" long and I believe the Greyhawk barrels were 26" long like the Renegades.

renegadehunter said:

I'd also say it is probably a kit gun left "in the white".
Could possibly be a Greyhawk barrel on it?
A TC hawken barrel is 28" long and I believe the Greyhawk barrels were 26" long like the Renegades.

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Greyhawks are roundbarreled guns. Like a stainless New Englander.

The Silver Elite and the Cougar had stainless or plated barrels but, to the best of my knowlege, didn’t come in kit form.

bubba.50 said:

Greyhawks are roundbarreled guns. Like a stainless New Englander.

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Gotcha. Didn't remember that they were round barrels.

I'd call BS on the stainless barreled kit Hawken. Degrease it then touch it with cold blue and I'll bet you will agree. If it was sold as stainless, then somebody needs an ass whooping.