This is a picture of a .50 caliber Thompson Center New Englander I just picked up from forum member Corey. I tried to clean the barrel, but Corey had that thing spotless. Nice job there Corey.
I then put in a T/C Hot shot stainless steel nipple. I cleaned the bolster with pipe cleaners and Montana X-treme cowboy solvent. Since its snowing I could not go outside to shoot it (windy too). So I wanted to see how much fire it would throw with the new nipple in and all cleaned out bolster. Very impressive. I pushed a couple patches down to the breech and it blackened every one of them just fine.
I then took the lock apart, cleaned that and put it back together and got a little bit of false drag out of the fly, and it works perfect. So I found a wedge pin for it (actually a friend made me a number of these out of stainless steel in his shop) and put the rifle together. After I waxed the stock and shined and oiled the barrel I think it looks pretty good.
I am not sure about that front sight on that thing. I looks like it should shoot real low, but the first range session will tell me that. Now if it would just stop being nasty out and let a person shoot...
Thanks again Corey.
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Nice looking gun.... I am not even goingto ask why Corey gave it up... But it must really be tough for you everyday when you get up and you look over you racks of rifles and think.... 'which one am I going to shoot today?' I envy you!!!
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Looks good. New Englanders are such great basic sidelocks that everyone should have one.Is the trigger guard on that one cut/borken, or is that just a glitch in the picture?
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Looks good. New Englanders are such great basic sidelocks that everyone should have one.Is the trigger guard on that one cut/borken, or is that just a glitch in the picture?
The corner of the one block of wood is covering it.
Looks purdy! I have the opposite problem. We have nice weather here but I can't find time to get to the range...
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Corey I went back and checked all the plastic bags in that box, and did find the wedge pin... thanks.
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.50 caliber T/C New Englander
I swear you tell corey not to do something, he forgets and then sends the mess for me t o clean up LOL.
