Loyalist Dave
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Hey folks, I've got a "line" on a used but very good condition TC New Englander caplock in the rare 12 gauge version. I have one myself in .54. The seller tells me that this does not have screw-in choke tubes, but it's a synthetic stocked version, with a cylinder bore? I can't find any technical info on the barrels offered by TC in the 12 gauge. Is it possible it is choked, but it's merely "fixed" at perhaps "modified"? I thought that the originals if they were cylinder bore would have only been in wood stocks, not the later synthetic versions, which I would expect to have had the choke tubes.
OF course this may have been an early version with a later version stock added to it by the previous owner....
I am thinking since my teenage son really likes the New Englander in .54 that getting this should give him a second barrel for upland and forest small game, plus an extra lock and other spare parts since they are no longer made. This of course means also hoping that the barrel drops in just like the once offered after-market TC barrels were supposed to do....
Can anybody clue me in as to whether this is probably a cylinder bore? Also, anybody out there ever sent out their cylinder bore TC NE barrel to have it converted to take choke tubes? (It would be nice to black powder duck hunt, with bismuth shot, one day).
LD
OF course this may have been an early version with a later version stock added to it by the previous owner....
I am thinking since my teenage son really likes the New Englander in .54 that getting this should give him a second barrel for upland and forest small game, plus an extra lock and other spare parts since they are no longer made. This of course means also hoping that the barrel drops in just like the once offered after-market TC barrels were supposed to do....
Can anybody clue me in as to whether this is probably a cylinder bore? Also, anybody out there ever sent out their cylinder bore TC NE barrel to have it converted to take choke tubes? (It would be nice to black powder duck hunt, with bismuth shot, one day).
LD