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TC stock makeover
Eric Krewson:
One more picture; these are the replacements for the wimpy TC tang woodscrews. As received this tang was lopsided, I reshaped, re-blued it and installed these 11-32 tang bolts.
Eric Krewson:
The front trigger pull on this gun after I polished the triggers is 3.4#. This is not a valid test because the the unpolished trigger I tested earlier was on a identical TC Hawken, not this one.
Now I need to pull the unpolished set, polish them and see just how much the poundage drops.
The front trigger on the overhaul gun is so slick and just the poundage I like for hunting, no need to use the set trigger.
Eric Krewson:
On the wrist; TC Hawkens are cheek slappers, they have a high comb for people who mounted a scope which many people did back in the day. This high comb put their eye in line with a scope but cheek slapped you if you got down on it and shot iron sights. An elderly, very knowledgeable gun builder told me this, then told me how he altered his rifle stock to shoot heavy conicals on elk and not get cheek slapped
I followed Fred's lead and dropped the comb of the butt stock which let me lower the wrist and take some of the bulk out of it and round it more.
To give you an idea of just how good a builder Fred is, here is one of his guns, built in his mid 80s.
Buckskinner:
Fred's work is top notch no doubt.
Pappy:
Nice work Eric, enjoyed following it. :)
Pappy
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