TC pennsylvania match rifle?

[scratchmark]

Can anyone give me any info on this gun?

[flintlock]

Never heard of it....

Do you have any pictures, links???

[quickdtoo]

Sounds like a version of the PA Hunter.

Tim

Thompson Center .50CAL. Pennsylvanial Match Rifle, 31-inch 1/2-round and 1/2-octagon barrel with 1 in 66 twist. Factory rear peep and front globe sight; pretty walnut;

http://www.gunsamerica.com/976945726/Guns-For-Sale/Gun-Auctions/Rifles/Thompson-Center-Muzzleloaders/Hawken-Style/THOMPSON_CENTER_50CAL_PENNSYLVANIA_MATCH_RIFLE_RARE_AND_NI.htm

http://www.tcarms.com/firearms/chart_muzzleloaders.php

[scratchmark]

My parents just bought one and need some info

[Landngroove]

T/C made a Cleland Match Hawken. 31" barrel, 1" across the flats, .40 caliber, double trigger. The picture of it in T/C Catalog #28 from 2001, looks like a T/C Hawken.

[quickdtoo]

The PA Match Hunter is a 50 cal, 1:66" cut rifled barrel as listed on the TC site, the GA link lists it as a ½ round,  ½ octagon barrel, sounds like a dressed up PA Hunter to me! 

Tim

[30HERRETT]

It is a Cleland Match Hawken made in 40 caliber only .Barrels are marked as such and are full octagon .

It has NOTHING to do with the PA Hunter that Tim makes reference to .

I have had both cap and flint in this model .The flint one being the only one I have ever seen .I bought it in the Custom Shop one day .

[scratchmark]

they bought it up in solon, maine. they live in north anson. its 50cal percussion

[coyotejoe]

A photo would help. T/C did build some limited edition rifles which were not standard catalog guns. I never heard of a "Pennsylvania Match Rifle" but that doesn't mean there never was one. The "Pennsylvania Hunter" was flintlock only so that would not be it, and the "Cleland Match Rifle" was .40 caliber so you rule that one out as well. Is the gun actually marked as "Pennsylvania Match Rifle" or is that just what someone called it?

[quickdtoo]

TC lists it as a PENNSYLVANIA MATCH HUNTER.

Tim

http://www.tcarms.com/firearms/chart_muzzleloaders.php

[bubba.50]

the Pennsylvania hunter was not only available in flintlock. it was also in caplock. and besides the more common 32in halfround barrel it was available at times with 31in & 28in full octagon as well as a carbine version with a couple different twist rates. the Pennsylvania match hunter was basically just the Pennsylvania hunter with the t/c flip-up tang & globe front match sights.

[scratchmark]

it actually says pennsylvania match  and it is octagon barrel.

[bubba.50]

there's one on armslist right now. it has the 1/2 round 1/2 octagon barrel.

[Winter Hawk]

I believe the earlier PA Hunters were half round and only flintlocks, made specifically for the Pennsylvania ML hunts which required flint ignition.  When that changed, and in a cost-cutting effort T-C went to the full octagonal barrels and added caplock ignition also.

This is all from my memory which is sneaking up on 70 years old so it may be off in left field....

-WH-