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Post by easydave on Mar 22, 2005 16:59:07 GMT -5
Do the flint drop-in barrels from Green Mountain work well? I have a Renegade stock with no barrel.
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Post by roundball on Mar 22, 2005 18:47:18 GMT -5
Do the flint drop-in barrels from Green Mountain work well? I have a Renegade stock with no barrel. Yes, I have a .58cal Flint round ball barrel on one TC Hawken stock...and a .62cal Flint smoothbore barrel on another...both my GM barrels are excellent |
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Post by easydave on Mar 22, 2005 21:15:42 GMT -5
I didn't know they made a 58 caliber flint barrel.
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Post by Triple Se7en on Mar 22, 2005 22:13:25 GMT -5
I believe the 58 GM flintlock has been discontinued. May have to settle for a 54 if you want a new one.
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Post by MarkKw on Mar 23, 2005 5:57:18 GMT -5
I have a .32 from GM and I am not at all impressed with the quality of it nor their business practices. Wish now that I'd have looked more before buying anything.
Save yourself some trouble and get exactly what you want by calling Long Hammock Barrels 352.748.7373
Riley will make you whatever you want and you won't have settle on something you don't or wait forever to get it.
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Post by Douglas Blair on Mar 23, 2005 8:36:25 GMT -5
easydave, whichever way you go with this just remember the Renegade uses a 1 inch across the flats barrel as well as the .54 T/C Hawken. The .45 and .50 caliber Hawken uses a 15/16 barrel.
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Post by russell on Mar 23, 2005 17:17:12 GMT -5
MarkKw, can you elaborate on your unhappiness with the GM barrel and the company. thanks
Russell
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Post by MarkKw on Mar 23, 2005 19:24:25 GMT -5
GM alleges they "air gauge" their barrels yet this one came in with over 2" of chips pounded up against the breech plug to the point where I had to dig them out with a worm. The rifling was rough with chatter marks and I could not even get a PRB down it until I lapped it. I wasn't real happy with the crown either since it was almost non-existant.
I call and got shuffled from one person to another before being "accidentally" cut off. Called back, did the phone shuffle again before the same accidental cut off happened again. Took on the second call and when I made the thrid one, I asked for the last person I was supposed to talk to before the cut off and got him. He explained that the barrel was done to GM specs of quality and passed all inspections before it left the plant and if there was anything wrong with it, it happened after it left their control. I then asked since it was sealed in a GM box, how could someone other then GM put chips down the bore? The guy promptly said something like "I don't have to take this s**t!" and hung up on me.
Wrote two letters, six weeks apart, asking the same questions I asked the guy on the phone, never received a reply on either one. Finally just got tired of wasting my time and did what I could to fix the barrel up. Now after putting about 5 hours of work into it, it shoots ok but I'm still not happy with it. I'd have gladly taken a refund on it and never said a bad word about them but since they have not even had the decency to at least pick up the phone and tell me to go scew myself, I make it a point to let people know what they are getting and getting into when dealing with GM.
Boo boo's happen and I know there is always something that's going to get off the line and out of the plant w/o being perfect but most companies understand this and will make good on it which is all anyone can ask for. GM just blew me off and treated me like I had not idea what I was talking about. Sorry, that just don't cut it with me.
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Post by roundball on Mar 23, 2005 19:27:40 GMT -5
GM didn't offer a .58cal TC Hawken drop-in Flint barrel, only a percussion barrel...however, GM will make practically any configuration you ask for, and I had it made. They simply took their normal .58cal drop-in percussion barrel and installed a flint breechplug on it instead of a percussion plug. Note: to avoid paying full MSRP, don't buy directly from them, buy through a supplier like Ed Cain, Cain's Outdoors, West VA...big TC and GM dealer / supplier. www.cainsoutdoor.comContact Ed, you can remind him about the .58cal Flint barrel he ordered for a guy in North Carolina last year...cost through him was $190-ish...from GM direct it would have been $250-ish. Both of my GM barrels are excellent |
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Post by Birddog6 on Mar 29, 2005 7:58:09 GMT -5
I came by Tip Curtis Frontier Shop yesterday to get a couple of screws & etc., & I noticed he had 2 cases of Grn.Mtn. drop-in barrels there beside the barrel rack. Didn't ask what they fit but I would guess a T/C Hawken or Renegade. If interested, ya may want to give him a call. He has also had the .58 cal. Hawken barrels I think as I think Gabby got one there.
His tele# 615-654-4445
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Post by Gabby on Mar 29, 2005 21:29:35 GMT -5
Birddog is right. I got a .58 GM drop-in barrel for one of my T/C Hawkens from Tip about two months ago. I'd been asking Tip for one for about two years but was told that GM hadn't produced a "run" of them for some time and they weren't available. By change I reminded Tip of my interest while ordering other supplies and he told me that he had just gotten 3 of them. Apparently GM found them in inventory and Tip bought all 3. If I
m not mistaken, they are all gone now but it wouldn't hurt to give Tip a call just in case.
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Post by easydave on May 17, 2005 18:04:35 GMT -5
I bought a 58 cal barrel in percussion from Track Of The Wolf for $155. It shoots great, but now I realize that maybe I want to go to 15/16ths flint in 50 or 54 instead. The Hawken stocks aren't hard to find. It's the flintlocks that are difficult to get.
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