T/C Encore question
12-20-2020, 06:09 AM
#4
Boone & Crockett
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12-20-2020, 03:14 PM
#5
Typical Buck
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Yes and no. The rear screw hole is positioned the same on the both the pistol and rifle barrels, but the front screw hole on a rifle barrel and forend is farther forward because the rifle forends are longer. You could get by with using a pistol forend on a rifle barrel or vice versa by just using the rear screw, but I'd recommend against it. The pistols and rifles use the same screws, but shotgun and muzzleloader forends have completely different sized screws and threading pitch.
Nice. Is it one of the 28" ones?
12-20-2020, 07:21 PM
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Yes and no. The rear screw hole is positioned the same on the both the pistol and rifle barrels, but the front screw hole on a rifle barrel and forend is farther forward because the rifle forends are longer. You could get by with using a pistol forend on a rifle barrel or vice versa by just using the rear screw, but I'd recommend against it. The pistols and rifles use the same screws, but shotgun and muzzleloader forends have completely different sized screws and threading pitch.
Nice. Is it one of the 28" ones?
Nice. Is it one of the 28" ones?
12-27-2020, 08:39 AM
#9
Nontypical Buck
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A pistol can always become a rifle. Rifles can’t become pistols - with a few specific exceptions, the TC’s being one of them.
A “kit gun,” such as the TC’s, even sold originally as a rifle, can always retain their kit gun capability as they were originally designed and manufactured to be both pistol and rifle.
As long as an Encore or Contender are not assembled as a short barreled rifle (barrel < 16” with a shoulder stock), they can infinitely be converted back and forth among rifle or pistol configurations.
https://www.atf.gov/file/55526/download
A “kit gun,” such as the TC’s, even sold originally as a rifle, can always retain their kit gun capability as they were originally designed and manufactured to be both pistol and rifle.
As long as an Encore or Contender are not assembled as a short barreled rifle (barrel < 16” with a shoulder stock), they can infinitely be converted back and forth among rifle or pistol configurations.
https://www.atf.gov/file/55526/download
Last edited by Nomercy448; 12-27-2020 at 08:42 AM.
12-27-2020, 09:10 AM
#10
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Martin, TN
Posts: 854
A pistol can always become a rifle. Rifles can’t become pistols - with a few specific exceptions, the TC’s being one of them.
A “kit gun,” such as the TC’s, even sold originally as a rifle, can always retain their kit gun capability as they were originally designed and manufactured to be both pistol and rifle.
As long as an Encore or Contender are not assembled as a short barreled rifle (barrel < 16” with a shoulder stock), they can infinitely be converted back and forth among rifle or pistol configurations.
https://www.atf.gov/file/55526/download
A “kit gun,” such as the TC’s, even sold originally as a rifle, can always retain their kit gun capability as they were originally designed and manufactured to be both pistol and rifle.
As long as an Encore or Contender are not assembled as a short barreled rifle (barrel < 16” with a shoulder stock), they can infinitely be converted back and forth among rifle or pistol configurations.
https://www.atf.gov/file/55526/download