I recently added an Aristocrat rifle to my SSs. It has both an 06 bbl, forearm and a 22-250 bbl and forearm. Forearms are different, one a quick release and the other uses a captured screw release. Have not been able to get them on the bench yet. Anyone out there have any experience with these rifles and if so what's your opinon of them? Any hints in shooting these or whatever helpful info you may have. Thanks in advance.

Beautiful rifles with awful safeties.
Mine is pretty darn accurate.

Thanks, like your rifles. will post as soon as I get them on the bench. I have a number of single shot rifles and really enjoy hunting with them and the older I get it seems the more I enjoy them although I've been shooting them for about 50 yrs. Still have the first 2 I started with, 84 Springfield and a Sharp Borchard. Both hand me downs from my Grandfather.

ive had one for abt 12- 15 years one of the last made before the fire at tc. i love it. both my 308 and the 22-250 are tackdrivers.
its hard to find any more barrels because no one makes them any more but i keep looking.
youll find they have tight headspacing and you should be carefull sizing them. havent tried to neck them yet but will try one day. mine prefers the bullets seated abt 5000ths off the rifling.
my buddy got me started by letting me fire his years ago . good luck at the range. brian

Mine is the Hunter version, not the Aristocrat. Have a T/C .32/40 Win. barrel and a custom SSK tube in .375/06 JDJ. Both barrels shoot very well. My first TCR was stolen back in 2000 along with another .32/40 barrel and it took me awhile to replace the frame and find another .32/40 barrel. My orginal had the latch forend and my current one has the screw. I wish I had another latch one because the gun seems to be very sensitive to screw tightness. P.O.I. seems to be inconsistent when the screw works itself loose. I made a bad shot on a deer and lost it a couple years back because the forend screw had worked itself loose and God knows where I hit that poor deer because the gun was way off when I shot it at paper again whereas it had been dead on the money when I zeroed it for the season. I'm very conscious of the forend now.

If one could predetiremen the amount of pressure on the forearm screw needed I would use clear fingernail polish on the threads. Years ago I went to S&W's Armours School and we were told to use clear finger nail polish instead of Lok-Tite. It's cheap and works well. I use it on my scope base screws and has never failed me. If anyone comes up with any non-magnum barrels they are not interested in please advice. Thanks for the info.

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Originally posted by popplecop:
I recently added an Aristocrat rifle to my SSs. It has both an 06 bbl, forearm and a 22-250 bbl and forearm. Forearms are different, one a quick release and the other uses a captured screw release. Have not been able to get them on the bench yet. Anyone out there have any experience with these rifles and if so what's your opinon of them? Any hints in shooting these or whatever helpful info you may have. Thanks in advance.

I had one I bought so I'd have access to a bunch of barrels in different calibers. Damned it T/C didn't stop making the barrels about the time I got it! Had an '06, a .22/250, and a .243 Win. barrel for mine. The .22/250 was very accurate, the '06 was so-so, and you could not hit ANYTHING with the .243.... The only real good feature was the nice double-set trigger..........Sold it!