ORIGINAL: ultraslug1975
a friend just offered to sell me a t/c hawken from around the early 70"s
needs a little work all the bluing is gone the wood has to be refinised but is in great shape otherwise and it has some minor rust on the surface and the bore you guys think 100 bucks is too much are t/c's any good or should i pass on it? also wil this gun shoot conicals?idk what the twist rate is and niether dose. i'm using a cva frontier carbie now thars i-66 so the purpose of the hawken was so i could shoot maxi ball conicals
The rifle should have a 1-48 twist so yes it will shoot conicals. It will also shoot roundball very well. That is a good deal for $100.00 on auction sites, even the ruff shaped ones go for much more then that. The surface rust and bluing is not a big deal. That is normally an easy fix as is touching up the stock.
The nice thing about that rifle is the double set triggers, the over all balance of the rifle and the fact it is a big bore. Those are getting harder and harder to come by. You can also always get a Green Mountain IBS barrel for it with a 1-28 twist if you want to really shoot sabots and conicals or you can put a 1-70 twist in .58 caliber if you just want to floor things over with a large roundball... Nice rifle. I would not pass on that one.