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Originally Posted by jyl
Interesting. Is that why Thompson/Center is doing so badly, assuming it is? At least, that is how it appears to be, from the SWHC results. SWHC bought T/C and it has been a bad deal - SWHC's long gun biz results have been disappointing.
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I'm not sure what is up with T/C. I know S&W bought them, but I have no idea what the story behind that might be. T/C manufactures muzzle loaders, not the black powder cartridge rifles to which I refer. The rifles I'm refering to (as a genre) are the reproduction single shot breech loading Sharps '74, '75, '77, and '78; the various Winchester High Wall repros, Remington Rolling Blocks, Ballards, Stevens, etc. These are chambered in traditional late 19th century black powder calibers, the most famous and common being the .45-70. These were transitional rifles, using the old propellant of the muzzle loader (black powder) in the modern brass cartridge case, enabling rapid loading from the breech. This was a very short era in firearms terms - the '70's through about the turn of the century, by which time smokeless powders were edging out black.