Boerrancher
02-23-2012, 01:26 PM
My arrowhead hunting buddy Steve had been after for several years to make him a couple of Cahokia style points. This past Sat., at the local gun club, Steve told me he had a couple of broken side lock muzzleloaders that I could have if he could find them. I told him I would swing by tue or wed that I had finally made him a couple Cahokia points, (the only point from the mid west he doesn't have in his authentic collection) and I would trade him those cahokia points for the muzzleloaders. Yesterday I went over to his farm and give him the points. He went in the other room and came out dragging this TC Hawken. He told me about 10 years ago he loaded it and went to shoot it, the primer went but nothing else, so he put it up. I looked at it and it had an ignition system for large rifle primers.
When I got it home a few hours later the first chore was to unload it. I put the ball puller on the rod and run the screw in the ball and give a yank. The rod came lose. I lost my grip on it and it went flying across the basement. I sat the rifle back in the cleaning rack and waked over to the rod and there was a lead round ball on the end of it. OK this is going better than I though. I fished out the patch and dumped out the powder, which was a pyrodex pellet. After a good scraping of the breech I went to work on the ignition system. It was badly corroded. I cleaned it up with a copper brush and soaked it in PB blaster to set over night.
This morning I tried a pair of vice grips on it to no avail, and then found a torx bit that I could drive in it. I drove it into it as deep as I could get it and put an adjustable wrench on it and gave it a twist it was tight. I had to put the barrel back in the stock to hold it and with a 12 inch cheater bar on the wrench handle I was able to get it to break loose. I cleaned everything up and put in a real nipple. Dumped 70 grains of Goex 2FG in it patched a 495 round ball and went out on the deck. It went bang and hit close to the rock I was half heartedly aiming at. I then tossed a soda can out at about 35 long steps and shot it 9 more times until there was nothing left of the can.
After a bath in some hot water and a good wipe down with WD40 inside and out I put it back together and took a few pics. I don't get all the gold work on it. Is that a TC thing or did who ever put the kit together do that? I assume it was built from a kit because the serial # starts with a K, as you will see in one of the photos.
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk155/Boerrancher/Boolits/Firearms/TCHawkenA.jpg
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk155/Boerrancher/Boolits/Firearms/TCHawkenB.jpg
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk155/Boerrancher/Boolits/Firearms/TCHawkenC.jpg
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk155/Boerrancher/Boolits/Firearms/TCHawkenD.jpg
Now I don't think I did to bad on this deal, 2 small arrowheads for a good looking TC Hawken that seems to shoot really well. I guess my boys will have something to grow into. I only wish it was a rock lock but I am not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Best wishes and thanks for looking,
Joe
When I got it home a few hours later the first chore was to unload it. I put the ball puller on the rod and run the screw in the ball and give a yank. The rod came lose. I lost my grip on it and it went flying across the basement. I sat the rifle back in the cleaning rack and waked over to the rod and there was a lead round ball on the end of it. OK this is going better than I though. I fished out the patch and dumped out the powder, which was a pyrodex pellet. After a good scraping of the breech I went to work on the ignition system. It was badly corroded. I cleaned it up with a copper brush and soaked it in PB blaster to set over night.
This morning I tried a pair of vice grips on it to no avail, and then found a torx bit that I could drive in it. I drove it into it as deep as I could get it and put an adjustable wrench on it and gave it a twist it was tight. I had to put the barrel back in the stock to hold it and with a 12 inch cheater bar on the wrench handle I was able to get it to break loose. I cleaned everything up and put in a real nipple. Dumped 70 grains of Goex 2FG in it patched a 495 round ball and went out on the deck. It went bang and hit close to the rock I was half heartedly aiming at. I then tossed a soda can out at about 35 long steps and shot it 9 more times until there was nothing left of the can.
After a bath in some hot water and a good wipe down with WD40 inside and out I put it back together and took a few pics. I don't get all the gold work on it. Is that a TC thing or did who ever put the kit together do that? I assume it was built from a kit because the serial # starts with a K, as you will see in one of the photos.
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk155/Boerrancher/Boolits/Firearms/TCHawkenA.jpg
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk155/Boerrancher/Boolits/Firearms/TCHawkenB.jpg
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk155/Boerrancher/Boolits/Firearms/TCHawkenC.jpg
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk155/Boerrancher/Boolits/Firearms/TCHawkenD.jpg
Now I don't think I did to bad on this deal, 2 small arrowheads for a good looking TC Hawken that seems to shoot really well. I guess my boys will have something to grow into. I only wish it was a rock lock but I am not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Best wishes and thanks for looking,
Joe