TC Hawken Discontinued
#51
I've read that the sidelock hunters are down to less than 10% of the total. That's still a lot when you consider there's 4 million ML hunters, but we're a dying group when you consider it used to be 100%.
#52
WV Hunter,
I'd prob say from what I have observed from all the BP hunters I know - few seem to even want a 'traditional' rifle any longer. Everyone I know uses an inline now....I get looked at like I have '6 Heads' with my Great Plains rifle!
I'd prob say from what I have observed from all the BP hunters I know - few seem to even want a 'traditional' rifle any longer. Everyone I know uses an inline now....I get looked at like I have '6 Heads' with my Great Plains rifle!
#54
Oh I agree. I use one because I LIKE them, their design, history, etc. and not what 'everyone else is doing.' I could care less what the 'popular thing' is and who is doing what, where and when.
I walk my own path!
I walk my own path!
#55
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Midwest
Posts: 1,079
I had a T/C Hawken, I sold it after I bought an Investarm Hawken. The Investarm has much better wood, appeared unfired and was $125 used. It was made in 1985 in Italy, where they make some very nice guns. I would not trade it for a new T/C. Cabelas now sells them as well as Lyman. I don't like their max load tho, it is 90 gr. Pyrodex with a patched RB. T/C was over 100 gr.(110, I think) with the same(15/16") barrel size.
#56
I had a T/C Hawken, I sold it after I bought an Investarm Hawken. The Investarm has much better wood, appeared unfired and was $125 used. It was made in 1985 in Italy, where they make some very nice guns. I would not trade it for a new T/C. Cabelas now sells them as well as Lyman. I don't like their max load tho, it is 90 gr. Pyrodex with a patched RB. T/C was over 100 gr.(110, I think) with the same(15/16") barrel size.
#59
I have no faith in these "experts" that tell me a roundball, projected at such and such speed is not a lethal projectile. I call bull on that. I've shot far too many deer with a simple roundball to believe their non lethal line of bunk. They base their "knowledge" for the most part on numbers. And numbers don't paint the entire picture.