Don't make gun literature like they used to

[grimjaw]

My father found this bit of Thompson Center literature when he was going through some old things. I have the TC Hawken he bought years ago (I think for about $120). I don't think the booklet came with the gun, being priced separately ($1!). The only date I can find on the booklet is on the back, April 1980. It goes into great detail. Much of this can be found online nowadays, I suppose.

 

[AJumbo]

The rifles and kits used have that book packed in the box, but they were also available separately. I suspect a lot of gun shops pulled the books out of the boxes and hung them on displays so they could gouge another buck out of a new Renegade owner. I used to buy Hawken kits, with that book included, for $85 delivered......or course, I was making about $140 a week then.

 

[BowerR64]

The rifles and kits used have that book packed in the box, but they were also available separately. I suspect a lot of gun shops pulled the books out of the boxes and hung them on displays so they could gouge another buck out of a new Renegade owner. I used to buy Hawken kits, with that book included, for $85 delivered......or course, I was making about $140 a week then.

Now they pull magazines from guns that come with more then one and sell them seperatly.

I complained about this once on another forum and i got replies like "when was it a law that all guns must come with more then one magazine"? or something like that.

 

[4v50 Gary]

That's why I scour second hand bookstores for old books. You find bits of forgotten treasures that way.

 

[hayes1966]

Great post. Thanks for sharing.

 

[BowerR64]

Look at the difference in the different powder screens and the F ratings.

The gap between the grade scale is pretty wide between 2F and 4F


Ive often wondered if i could resift some of the powder i have and maybe make it a little more consistant.

The subs seem more inconsistant then real black.

If you look at say goex and swiss up close you see overall the size of the granuals are more consistantly the same size. The subs dont seem as consistant.

Black i think has better quality control.

 

[hillbilly matt]

nice..... that would be fun to flip through

 

[rcmodel]

Boy, you got that right!!

Todays manuals are 30 pages of red ink 'DON'T DO THIS AT HOME KIDS" legal warnings.

And a few half pages of small print on how to load, shoot, and perhaps, clean the gun the gun.

How far we have sunk in the last 30-50 years??

I can still remember when the 'Owners Manual' on a new Winchester was a cardboard hang tag on a yellow string, looped through the trigger guard.

It told you not much more then what Model & caliber it was, which end the end the ammo went in.

But that's all folks needed to know back then.

Most guns owners weren't waiting in the wings to have a gun accident the manual didn't tell them not to have, so they could sue the manufacture and win the lottery like they are today!!

rc

 

[BowerR64]

Now the manuals are half english and half spinach

 

[Bezoar]

modern manuals leave alot to be desired.

the pietta ones if you look closely, dont even want you to remove the nipples for cleaning. or to even take the grip frame off.


whats worse one page tells you to put half an inch of pump grease on your roundball during loading, but then two pages later dont do that because it will kill your powder charge or cause a bore obstruction that will blow your gun up.

 

[4v50 Gary]

BTW, the Lyman Centennial Handbook is a blast to go through.