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Ive owned a TC White Mountain Carbine for as long as I can remember in 50 cal. Serial number 463##. Its one of those ML's that is very near and dear to my heart and accompanied me on many a deer hunt and has slayed countless head of deer.
This weekend I found someone that wanted to sell me a twin brother to it serial 119##. It's obviously a older one. It has not been as gently cared for but was in reasonably good shape with a pretty sound bore with only some slightly above average wear on the blueing and stock. This one does not have the additional screw hole towards the rear for the factory scope mount like mine has. No doubt this is a early production run. The guy made me a fair price on it so I took it.
I thought that maybe the trigger was was just dirty on the one I picked up because it made a funny springy noise when I cocked it. So I decided to break it down to clean it and it looked nice and clean and oiled on the inside surprisingly enough. On closer inspection and tearing these two down and comparing them they have entirely different trigger actions.
The older one has some sort of trigger return spring where the newer one does not.
Anyone have any information on this ? Did TC make some sort of major change across the board on their Traditional MLs? Or just on the WMC???
This weekend I found someone that wanted to sell me a twin brother to it serial 119##. It's obviously a older one. It has not been as gently cared for but was in reasonably good shape with a pretty sound bore with only some slightly above average wear on the blueing and stock. This one does not have the additional screw hole towards the rear for the factory scope mount like mine has. No doubt this is a early production run. The guy made me a fair price on it so I took it.
I thought that maybe the trigger was was just dirty on the one I picked up because it made a funny springy noise when I cocked it. So I decided to break it down to clean it and it looked nice and clean and oiled on the inside surprisingly enough. On closer inspection and tearing these two down and comparing them they have entirely different trigger actions.
The older one has some sort of trigger return spring where the newer one does not.
Anyone have any information on this ? Did TC make some sort of major change across the board on their Traditional MLs? Or just on the WMC???