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T/C Pro-Hunter

Uploaded on March 19, 2010

Anyone ever hunt with a T/C Pro-Hunter? What are your thoughts? What do you like? What do you not like? How does it compare overall to a quality bolt action? I posted this on the "Answers" page but nobody has "Answered" yet. Maybe this will work. Thank you.

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from Greenhorn wrote 1 year 46 weeks ago

I do not have one but I have its predecessor the Black Diamond. A great gun. The Pro-Hunter feels excellent, and I'm sure it is a great shooter . But spending upwards of 800.00 for it just doesn't fit in my budget. Jim Shockey hunts exclusively they do well with them. If you can afford it , I think you would love it.

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from Greenhorn wrote 1 year 45 weeks ago

Sorry, after reading your other post I realized you're looking for a centerfire barrelled model!

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from BigBboy25 wrote 1 year 45 weeks ago

I do not own one, but my best friend purchased one two years ago chambered in .300 Win. Mag. and I can tell you the trials and tribulations he went through with it.

The first day we went to the range with it to break in the barrel, we loaded it up, pulled back the hammer, let it down and "click" no boom. Huh? must be a bad primer, so we tried it again, "Click". Ok we'll try a different round, same story. We tried a whole box of shells and none of them went off. A trip to the gunsmith revealed the chamber was cut too deep and the shells were sliding into the chamber too far and the firing pin was barely hitting the primer.

After he got a new barrel from T/C (Free of course) we took it back to the range, this time the gun fired. After barrel break in he began to work up a hand load. He got great groups with it, right around 1/4 minute for 3 shots. Some time passed and then it began to shoot 3 inch groups at 100 yards for no apparent reason with the proven 1/4 minute load. We began to look at it and the whole scope mount had come loose. Closer inspection revealed it was only held on with one screw. He again took it to the gunsmith and had him tap another screw and tighten everything down. After that the rifle shot 1/4 minute again.

Elk season that year the rifle worked well, I was with him and watched him drop a bull at 435 yards with one shot. So we figured he was home free. After we dressed his bull and got it loaded on the quad after a hellish pack out we noticed his butt stock was coming loose from the action. We decided we'd look at it more at camp. So when we arrived at camp he pulled his gun out of the guncase and the butt stock had completely fallen off! The screws had stripped right out of it!
After a few sentences with some spicy enhancers had been expressed by him, he grabbed his Remington 700 and filled his deer tag the next day.

He got the stock replaced and the rifle still shoots very well. However, just last week we were up on the mountain shooting clay pigeons and an 8" popper we have at 800 yards. He was hitting the popper very consistently and the clay pigeons about every other or every 3rd shot. Life was good until he had a case split in the chamber. I figured it was worn out brass and didn't think much of it. But then he told me it was only once fired. We looked at some other pieces of the same brass he had fired and could see a faint line where the brass was begging to become weak. So we again took it to the gunsmith and the chamber was again cut too deep! not as much as the first time but enough to stretch the brass that only after two firings it was too weak to reload!

Overall my buddy was pretty disappointed with all the issues he had with this rifle. I hope this is not common for T/C's but he says he won't buy another one and I won't be buying one either after all I've seen with his. The rifle is very accurate when something is not wrong with it, its accuracy was actually outstanding but all the frustrations with it make it less enjoyable. I don't want to discourage you from this rifle if it is what you really want. I'm simply telling you what I know. Good luck to you! Hope this helps some.

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from jscottevans wrote 1 year 45 weeks ago

Thanks BigBboy, it was helpful. Just trying to get all the opinions I can here. Like someone said a while back in the "Questions" page, there aren't that many out there so it's hard to get many reviews. It is just a system that has always intrigued my (interchangeable barrels), but I just want to know what people who own them think.

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from BigBboy25 wrote 1 year 44 weeks ago

You're welcome jscott, I know what I said probably wasn't what you wanted to hear but I'm just telling you what I know. He bought the rifle because of the switch barrel feature as well but he's afraid to switch the barrels because of all the problems he's had thus far.

Good shooting!

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from Sarge01 wrote 1 year 44 weeks ago

I have owned over 100 high power rifles and one time I owned over $2800.00 of TC Encore "junk" . I had a 308 barrel- best group with many handloads 3 inches at 100 yards. I had a 300 Win Mag. barrel and the shooting wasn't much better. I hate to be so hard on the TC guns but they were the greatest disappointment I had ever had with a gun.

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from Greenhorn wrote 1 year 46 weeks ago

I do not have one but I have its predecessor the Black Diamond. A great gun. The Pro-Hunter feels excellent, and I'm sure it is a great shooter . But spending upwards of 800.00 for it just doesn't fit in my budget. Jim Shockey hunts exclusively they do well with them. If you can afford it , I think you would love it.

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from Greenhorn wrote 1 year 45 weeks ago

Sorry, after reading your other post I realized you're looking for a centerfire barrelled model!

+1 Good Comment? | | Report
from BigBboy25 wrote 1 year 45 weeks ago

I do not own one, but my best friend purchased one two years ago chambered in .300 Win. Mag. and I can tell you the trials and tribulations he went through with it.

The first day we went to the range with it to break in the barrel, we loaded it up, pulled back the hammer, let it down and "click" no boom. Huh? must be a bad primer, so we tried it again, "Click". Ok we'll try a different round, same story. We tried a whole box of shells and none of them went off. A trip to the gunsmith revealed the chamber was cut too deep and the shells were sliding into the chamber too far and the firing pin was barely hitting the primer.

After he got a new barrel from T/C (Free of course) we took it back to the range, this time the gun fired. After barrel break in he began to work up a hand load. He got great groups with it, right around 1/4 minute for 3 shots. Some time passed and then it began to shoot 3 inch groups at 100 yards for no apparent reason with the proven 1/4 minute load. We began to look at it and the whole scope mount had come loose. Closer inspection revealed it was only held on with one screw. He again took it to the gunsmith and had him tap another screw and tighten everything down. After that the rifle shot 1/4 minute again.

Elk season that year the rifle worked well, I was with him and watched him drop a bull at 435 yards with one shot. So we figured he was home free. After we dressed his bull and got it loaded on the quad after a hellish pack out we noticed his butt stock was coming loose from the action. We decided we'd look at it more at camp. So when we arrived at camp he pulled his gun out of the guncase and the butt stock had completely fallen off! The screws had stripped right out of it!
After a few sentences with some spicy enhancers had been expressed by him, he grabbed his Remington 700 and filled his deer tag the next day.

He got the stock replaced and the rifle still shoots very well. However, just last week we were up on the mountain shooting clay pigeons and an 8" popper we have at 800 yards. He was hitting the popper very consistently and the clay pigeons about every other or every 3rd shot. Life was good until he had a case split in the chamber. I figured it was worn out brass and didn't think much of it. But then he told me it was only once fired. We looked at some other pieces of the same brass he had fired and could see a faint line where the brass was begging to become weak. So we again took it to the gunsmith and the chamber was again cut too deep! not as much as the first time but enough to stretch the brass that only after two firings it was too weak to reload!

Overall my buddy was pretty disappointed with all the issues he had with this rifle. I hope this is not common for T/C's but he says he won't buy another one and I won't be buying one either after all I've seen with his. The rifle is very accurate when something is not wrong with it, its accuracy was actually outstanding but all the frustrations with it make it less enjoyable. I don't want to discourage you from this rifle if it is what you really want. I'm simply telling you what I know. Good luck to you! Hope this helps some.

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from jscottevans wrote 1 year 45 weeks ago

Thanks BigBboy, it was helpful. Just trying to get all the opinions I can here. Like someone said a while back in the "Questions" page, there aren't that many out there so it's hard to get many reviews. It is just a system that has always intrigued my (interchangeable barrels), but I just want to know what people who own them think.

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from BigBboy25 wrote 1 year 44 weeks ago

You're welcome jscott, I know what I said probably wasn't what you wanted to hear but I'm just telling you what I know. He bought the rifle because of the switch barrel feature as well but he's afraid to switch the barrels because of all the problems he's had thus far.

Good shooting!

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from Sarge01 wrote 1 year 44 weeks ago

I have owned over 100 high power rifles and one time I owned over $2800.00 of TC Encore "junk" . I had a 308 barrel- best group with many handloads 3 inches at 100 yards. I had a 300 Win Mag. barrel and the shooting wasn't much better. I hate to be so hard on the TC guns but they were the greatest disappointment I had ever had with a gun.

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