Originally Posted by
Muley Hunter
Those should be rare Mike. I checked around, and it seems Sharon made the barrels for TC up until the mid 70's when Douglas took over.
The Renegade came out in 76, so few had the Sharon barrel. There should be a lot more TC Hawkens with Sharon barrels since it came out in 70.
Is the rifling on the Sharon shallow groove like the later TC barrels?
I just checked mine - they are all shallow groove - but I do not have any spade barrels left. All I have are the '
M' and '
<>' barrel markings. Plus 3 Renegades with true TC barrels.
I think all the Renegades would be shallow as they all were 1-48 twist rates