Odds are the fellow will be too proud of it if he bought it himself through custom shop. Good ones go for $250-300 on gunbroker. If you could get the smooth bore for $100 less you could send it off to Bobby Hoyt and have him rifle it. As a smooth bore it's next to useless unless a fellow just had to have one. Won't be as accurate with a ball. The range is so close with shot that a fellow could just head shoot small game with a rifle.

I favor the renegades over the hawkens. No shiny brass for hunting and they don't knock the piss out of your cheek. They come in 50, 54, 56 smooth and 58. They can be rebored up to 62.

johnnyo...

I'm going to climb out on a limb here and make an assumption. My ASSumption is that the barrel was made by the TC custom shop for the Massachusetts market. That's how the .56 smoothbore came to be. Mass would not allow ANY rifled barrels to be used for deer so Thompson Center being in the neighboring state of New Hampshire built the .56 smoothbore Renegade specifically for the Massachusetts hunting market. It could be that someone moved from a state that allowed the rifled TC Hawken they owned to Mass and ordered the barrel from the TC custom shop so they could drop it into their stock and keep hunting.

BPS