vintage Seneca barrel

[zoned10x]

No surprise that Thompson doesn't have barrel replacements for their old Seneca rifles, and apparently their current Hawken barrels will not fit the Seneca stock.  It looks like Green Mountain can't help, either.  Is anyone making compatible barrels? 

[forest2]

Take it easy pal,
 the machines that made the senica and cherokee for/at thompson burnt in a fire near 30 years ago.
 Their gone. Nobody's got a drop in barrel for them things. maybe you'll hafta salvage the breech, order a blank barrel with the proper twist then install wedges and sights yourself. Or pay a gun smith to do it for you...Or maybe you could sell the stock and the parts you have!

[zoned10x]

> the machines that made the senica and cherokee for/at thompson burnt in a fire near 30 years ago.

Yup, somewhere around 1986~87 IIRC, but they serviced the Seneca for years after the burn.  If you are the original owner, they will still stand behind their "lifetime warranty".


> Nobody's got a drop in barrel for them things...

Got an off-list email this afternoon pointing me to replacement barrels:
http://tinyurl.com/6fdyef

[forest2]

thank you for answering your own question. I know about TOTW, and I've met William, personally, years ago. He's a Gunsmith. He sometimes does work for Track of the Wolf.All you need to do now is show T/C that you are the original owner? Right?Sorry zoned10X, I must have mis-understood your "first" post. I thought I'd just suggest finding parts and making your own breech/barrel/lugs/sights for the gun.

[Ladobe]

the machines that made the senica and cherokee for/at thompson burnt in a fire near 30 years ago.

Yup, somewhere around 1986~87 IIRC, but they serviced the Seneca for years after the burn.  If you are the original owner, they will still stand behind their "lifetime warranty".

Actually, the TC plant fire was on 3/28/97.   But that's close to 20 and 30 years ago. 

While TC has one of the very best warranties in the business, it's kind of hard for them to replace parts they no longer have the tooling for - although I'm not sure TC even made the Seneca barrels in house.   Regardless, their spare parts for the Seneca are long gone.   What they probably would do is replace the entire rifle with a new Hawken/Renegade rifle if it was for a confirmed warranty problem with the Seneca barrel.   I know of them doing that with both the muzzle loaders and the Contender/Encore, including a Contender frame for me once.   With Tim Pancurak retired and S&W buying them out I don't know if they'll still do that though.

TOTW may be your only choice, and with some great caliber options.   I've had a Cherokee 32, and Seneca 36 & 45.   Favorite was the 36, but I would have really liked having a 40 on the Cherokee when I had it.

[zoned10x]

Thank you, Ladobe, the corrections and info are appreciated.