Anyone have experience with these, been looking at one in .270 for the last 3 gunshows. It is in excellent shape, and priced at $750, I just don't care for another .270. Are barrels hard to come by and what calibers were they made in? Accuracy?

Barrels are not available, last I checked from T/C. About the only option if you do not like the 270 is to have a really good gunsmith bore the barrel out of the mono-block and put a new one in.

If I were you and I wanted it, I would make that fact known to the seller and look for about a $100 discount.

Rich
DRSS

Thanks, that's what I thought about the barrels and the caliber conversion. Don't think I want it that much.

The rifle is out of production. Used barrels in a variety of common and uncommon cartridges are available sometimes from .22 Hornet to 470 NE and shotgun gauges. Watch edstc.com and gunbroker. I don't know of anyone making custom TCR barrels anymore although SSK was the last that I know. The TCR is a slim, trim rifle with some appeal but I sold all of mine when the Encore was released and I have not regretted it. $750 is in the ballpark for one in excellent condition as the price keeps creeping up on them.

I used to have one. I had a 223 barrel that was extreemly acurate. a 243 barrel that I didn't shoot much but shot real well and a 270 barrel that was again extreemly accurate. Barrels are available used only and are going up every time I look at them. The rifle is trim, quite elegant and a joy to carry around. I had mine for 10 years or so before I got tired of it and sold it for something new. DW

I have one with 6, no, 7 different barrels. I have found the rifles with their factory barrels to be very, very accurate...more accurate than your typical factory bolt gun. Oddly enough, I found their heavier custom shop barrels ("Fox Ridge", IIRC) to be significantly less accurate than their light-weight "standard" barrels. Barrels are really not that hard to find, though they certainly have gone up substantially in price from the $150 apiece I used to pay.

My barrels are in .223 Remington, .225 Winchester, .243 Winchester, 7m/m-08 Remington, .30-06 Government, and .32-40 Winchester...oh yeh, forgot I also have a .22 Hornet barrel.

Well, anyway, I find them really well made and really good shooters, as well as light and very handy to carry...and you can stick one (disassembled) in a suitcase if you need to. Disassembly is the same as any single-shot break action shotgun. Remove the forend, open the gun and remove the barrel. Voila! You are done. To re-assemble, reverse the order.

Some of the major scope mount makers used to make scope mounts, as did T/C itself, so they aren't too hard to come by either.

And of course tastes vary, but I like the appearance of the TCR series much more than either Contender or Encore-based T/Cs. To me they have much smoother lines, are more streamlined, and shaped un-like a dog's hind leg. And their blue, similar to the old hi-polish Colt Python blue, seems virtually indestructible.

You couldn't pry mine away from me with an 8-foot steel ice-chisel.

You know what AC? you couldn't mine if I had it back but it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. I think I got $265 each for two of the barrels on gunbroker and sold the rifle with one barrel for $500. I did need the money at the time. I have acumulated some very nice stuff since then but there just isn't another sleek little break action single shot on the market. Oh Well. DW

If interested,Cabelas has one listed with a four barrel set.

I have one with 3 barrels and would like to put some custom wood on it. Has anyone done this?

By the way, my barrels are 22 hornet, 223 Rem and 308 Win.

Originally posted by dwheels

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but there just isn't another sleek little break action single shot on the market. Oh Well. DW

Well there is the K95 But I'm guessing you mean one for under $3000.00

Virgin Valley of Hurricane Utah made this stock for my TCR-83

I made this fiberglass stock for a TCR-87. It has a .50-140 barrel on it.

I see barrels available quite often on Gunbroker.

Virgin Valley made some wood for the one I had. They did well then. Mine was a finish it myself project. Some one here ended up with it. Cant remember who. DW

If you want a really nice Aristocrat with double set triggers and immaculate wood AND 2 barrels, one in 223 and the other in 7IHMSA I have one available for $750 and the shipping. No pics but the condition is 99+++ percent.