Thompson Center 58cal's- history

[Dogmann]

Can the historians and experts here on TCs please tell me how many models did TC make in the 58cal percussion ?

I know of the

Renegade 58
Hawken 58
Big Board 58

Can you- it you know- tell me the barrel lengths and stock-trigger differences also?

Thanks

 

[BrownBear]

Only one I've seen first hand is the Big Boar. And all those have been single trigger. I have two- one with CLA and one without.

 

[Dogmann]

CLA?

 

[necchi]

Me thinks he hit a wrong key whilst typin,
I think it's QLA,
A T/C invention where they cut out the bore a bit a 1/2" or so at the muzzle to accommodate easy loading of the plastic things.

 

[BrownBear]

Me thinks he hit a wrong key whilst typin,
I think it's QLA,
A T/C invention where they cut out the bore a bit a 1/2" or so at the muzzle to accommodate easy loading of the plastic things.

Yup, it was an LCT, as in Low Coffee Typo. :rotf:

 

[Greg Blackburn]

I should be able to tell you more tomorrow, if my .58 comes in.

Greg

 

[ebiggs1]

The only one I have ever seen is the Big Boar 58.
If they, TC, made any of the other models you mentioned I have never run across one. Not that, that means anything but I do look out for them quite a bit. :hmm:

 

[buttonbuck]

I believe that all the 58 cals came as custom guns from fox ridge outfitters TC's custom shop with the exception of the Big Boar. I was on camping about 7 years ago and checked out a bow-gun shop and they had sold a 58 cal hawken and 36 cal seneca with the accessories for 500.00 from an estate 2 weeks before I got there. You can come across stuff like this I was sad I missed it I should have just sensed it.

 

[KyBill]

The only one I have seen Renegade with Big Bore 58 on Barrel

 

[Greg Blackburn]

I received my .58 TC yesterday. Renegade set up, and all the barrel says is ".58 Renegade." It does have QLA (flintlock not caplock)

It is also nearly factory new. I almost don't want to touch it let alone shoot it!

I wish I knew more about where and when it was made. Too bad all those TC records burned up.

Greg

 

[BrownBear]

That's a good score. You're going to have fun with that one!

For what it's worth, with half a dozen Big Boar cappers in the neighborhood a good starting load has turned out to be 80 grains of 2f under a .570 ball with ticking patches and grease lube of one sort or another none of us use wet lubes, so I can't say much about them.

That's a pretty standard plinking load for all of us, and a couple of guys use it for deer too. I find its trajectory a little too loopy for my 75 yard sight-in. That's a mild charge, but recoil goes up proportionally as you increase the charge. I've settled on 100 grains, but one pard likes 110.

You hadn't asked for that info yet, but I figured the question was coming!

 

[majg1234]

I've got a TC Hawken 58cal aquired off a Gun trading board it is LNIB,I've not fired it & don't know if I will.My other is an Investarms it does really well with 562 hand cast RB,wonder wad over 120gr ffg and 018 ticking patch lubed with beeswax and olive oil,It'll turn in ragged 1 hole groups @75yds off a rest all day If you care to shoot it that long Did I say it makes a lot of smoke and noise :grin: :v

 

[VEARL]

I also shoot 100 Gr. of 2F, along with a patched .570 RB in my 58 Cal Big Boar T. C. Shoots better than I can. Happy to keep them in a 6 inch circle at 75 yds.
Gonna try her on a deer this year.Grandson wants to hunt with my 54 Cal T.C. Renegade.

Aim small, miss small, try again.
Vearl

 

[George Tucker]

My 58 Big Boar likes 90grs of 2F and .570 patched RB.

 

[oldfrank]

I looked in my stack of old catalogs and found a T/C from 1995.

The Big Boar is all they show in .58 i9n that year.

 

[Rafsob]

My 58 Big Boar likes 90grs of 2F and .570 patched RB.

this is what mine shoots and does it very well!

 

[dc7x64]

Thompson/Center what happened? :idunno: :idunno: :idunno: :idunno: