T/C ProHunter
 

I read in a post below where some are not so happy with there tc prohunter. I am interested in purchasing a black synthetic stainless 243 prohunter, would I be happy or should I look at another brand of single shot? Originally I had heard good reviews on them and I see very few used for sale? How do people like them that have them?
thanks

I had a SS pro-hunter in .223 for varmint hunting and sold it this spring, only reason was that it was a pain in the *ss, (follow up shots) getting up to break it open to reload. But it shot well, under .4" My dad has a blued encore with a walnut stock in .308 win, he likes it alot. He bought a varmint contour 24" barrel and it groups under a 1" and is way shorter and is lighter than his bolt gun, even with the heavy barrel on it.

love mine....i have a 50cal ml barrel, 7mm-08 barrel for gun season, and a 22lr barrel for plinking and small game. I like shooting the same gun all the time, love the trigger on my tc, and also the ability to pack it all up and go somewhere and have a gun to suit all my needs (going to get a shotgun barrel next and then it will truly be one gun for all seasons).

love mine, have a 50. cal. muzzleloader bbl and a .280 rem., definetely one shot rifles, they are cumbersome to relaod, the ejector does nor eject the cartridge only pull it out to where you can get a hold of it.

I bought one in blackpowder for my wife to start hunting with me. I got the SS w/ camo stock. I really like it. I plan to get a .243 barrel for it in the next year or two and maybe the turkey barrel.

I have seen threads on here with people complaining about them, many seem to just be upset by the price. They are expensive, but by the time you buy extra barrels, they are less expensive than buying whole guns.

I have a SS ProHunter in 35 whelen I love it. Like stated above the biggest complaints I hear seems to be with the price and with them having an extractor instead of a ejector.

I had an Encore when they first came out in 7-08. Yeah the $ was pretty steep but I figured I could change barrels for more versatility. Well that rifle when back to T/C twice for problems getting it to fire some factory loads and handloads. And the accuracy was horrible. The best I could do was about 2 1/2" @ 100. I traded that rifle in post haste and got me a Browning Micro Hunter in the same chambering.

I do not own a TC Prohunter but am currently looking into one and just had a few additional questions to those that were already asked.

How easy is it changing the barrel and forend? How difficult is it to change the gun to pistol and is it worth it?

Thanks for your help...

tact driver !

Barrel changes are easy. Changing rifle to pistol and back brings up legal issues. Would be easy to do but if caught could be trouble. Say you are changing pistol to rifle and change the stock first you have a short barreled rifle until you change the barrel. I think it is illegal to change a pistol to a rifle anyway. Odds of getting caught are very low but I have seen some pretty lengthy arguments over this before.

Ok thanks. I didn't know all that but just saw it in the ad and thought it would be cool...

Geesh there aren't any legal issues with swapping barrels and stocks on TC pro hunters so long as you keep hand gun with hand gun and long gun with long gun.

If you have a hand gun grip on the frame then have a barrel shorter than 16 inches on it.

If you have the full stock on the frame then have a barrel longer than 16 inches on it.

As far as the gun goes...... if you like paying three times what it's worth then knock yourself out. For what a simple barrel costs for the PH you can get an entire bolt action rifle. It would be one thing if the barrels were of the quality of Krieger or similar but they aren't. It's a simple cast frame receiver with tupperware plastic or utility grade walnut stocks, and standard grade production barrels that have to support a huge marketing campaign. So in the end the consumer that falls for the TC hype gets to pay a hell of a lot more for the rifle than they are worth.

You can get a PH barrel in SS for less than $300 and a blued barrel even cheaper still. Can you get a whole rifle worth having for less than that?

You should buy a set up and call and see if an ATF agent would like to come watch you manufacture a rifle on a frame that is registered as a pistol. It is legal to make a rifle into a handgun but it is illegal to ever configure it as a rifle again. The frames are registered as a short or long gun so it does make a difference. Odds of getting caught are slim but I would prefer to buy 2 frames than to be the one that did get caught.

Really? Where? If they are selling ss pro hunter barrels for less than $300 they sure aren't making a profit and are just swapping money from one hand to another.

I don't need to call any one. I know what the law is.

You obviously haven't dealt with too many ATF agents. Try calling them and get an answer to a legal question. Then call and speak to another ATF agent and ask the same question. Do it two or three more times. Bet you get at least two or three contradicting answers.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/91-0164.ZO.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...r_Arms_Company

http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/tc.html

The consumer isn't "manufacturing" anything by changing from one to the other. The fact is the encore frames are manufactured to be either or. It is the owners responsibility to have the correct corresponding stocks and barrels installed on the frame.

You can get them here for just under $300 and TC seems to run a $50 rebate often enough.

http://www.natchezshooterssupply.com...%20Barrel%2028

I love mine in 50 cal ml and it is a shooter.

I've gt one in 7=08 also. Broke the walnut stock on the first one (no clue how) right back near the receiver. Sprung the coin for a flextech stock... gun won't shoot factory loads under 3". I have shot about every handload I can try out of it and have only once seen the gun shoot under 1". Probably a fluke.

I gave it to my girlfriend because she doesn't like to take shots much over 150 yards. Loaded some 120gr TSX bullets in it and we can get it to do about 1.5 to 2" groups at that range. I'd never EVER buy another one. EVER!