Thompson Center Arms Cal 54

[Crockford]

Make sure it is not loaded before you play with it too much! Great deal at $50....

 

[MSW]

great find! I had Mr. Hoyt bore out a .54 with a really bad bore to .62 smooth ... great gun!

 

[gunpa]

The locks for those are $150.00 on EBay------ just the lock. You made out well!

 

[Kappa]

I’d love to find one like that to put a green mountain 62 smoothbore barrel on, I have a 54 cal kit rife I bought at a pawnshop for 150 like 20 years ago for a green mountain barrel in 32 cal

 

[mushka]

I've spent that much taking a friend out to lunch. You done good.

 

[Dave Dworshak]

103

 

[Bad Karma]

That's a poorly done Thompson Center Hawken kit gun. Cosmetically, everything looks fixable with a little time, knowledge & elbow grease. From the looks of the outside of that barrel, I have my doubts about what that bore is gonna look like.

But well worth 50 bucks for parts if nothing else.

why do people insist on sanding the edges of the panels this way? One of my pet peeves… and yet… you have got a smokin deal!

 

[bubba.50]

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why do people insist on sanding the edges of the panels this way? One of my pet peeves… and yet… you have got a smokin deal!

One of my pet peeves too. Nothing uglies up a gun faster.

 

[Bad Karma]

Every time I see a t/c that’s been refinished I immediately look to the panels. 9 of 10 times they’re disfigured… the good news is that much of the time they can be repaired,

 

[Eric Krewson]

You can rework the wood and make a fine gun out of your find; I have reworked two so far to make them less Thompson Center.

Here is the latest reshaped stock with the barrel out;

 

[Dirty Mike]

Great find, I would guarantee the age would be between 1980 and 1985
1980 was the first yr of the 54 hawken percussion, and in 1981 the flintlock version was released. 1985 they started adding the names like hawken or renegade to them