CVA and Thompson Center Barrel Suppliers

[Urban Coyote]

Does anybody really know how many there were.

I read all kinds of ads for used CVA or T/C guns claiming barrels were made by Douglas, Sharon and others? In the case of CVA there's made in USA barrels, barrels without forgien proof marks and those made in Spain. There are CVA Mountain Rifle models with 2 screw and 4 screw patch boxes, one made in U.S.A. the other Spain? T/C barrels are sometimes identified as being marked on a flat with a spade, Maltese cross, clubs and other symbols?

Is there a definitive way of knowing who supplied barrels to these manufacturers and/or when they produced their own barrels?

 

[bpd303]

Not that I know of. A lot of barrels get swapped out in the field. I had a Thompson Center Hawken with a Douglas barrel, no telling who put that on on.

 

[Urban Coyote]

Not that I know of. A lot of barrels get swapped out in the field. I had a Thompson Center Hawken with a Douglas barrel, no telling who put that on on.

Yeah, I get that. I've got a Sceneca someone put a Douglas barrel on but it's aftermarket and not factory marked.

 

[longcruise]

Pretty sure that TC made all their own from 74 on and probably a little earlier.

 

[oldramrod]

T.C used several suppliers before making their own. Records were destroyed in a fire so we will never know for sure who made what.