Thompson Center Arms to be sold by S&W: Likely Demise
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- CowboyTutt
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Thompson Center Arms to be sold by S&W: Likely Demise
It appears to be all over the internet but S&W has announced its intention to sell Thompson Center Arms. Hopefully someone with deep pockets will buy it and keep it afloat.
New edit, its far worse than I thought, and probably the ultimate demise of T/C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJTuBDxDjho
-Tutt
New edit, its far worse than I thought, and probably the ultimate demise of T/C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJTuBDxDjho
-Tutt
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"These battered wings still kick up dust." -Peter Gabriel
Re: Thompson Center Arms to be sold by S&W: Likely Demise
I talked with a gal at S&W last summer after wondering why there were no receivers available. She said T/C has been for sale for a while and that production had ended over a year before, I think it was.
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Re: Thompson Center Arms to be sold by S&W: Likely Demise
S&W bought all of their machining and re-tooled it to make other products. Very sad liquidation basically. -Tutt
"It ain't dead! As long as there's ONE COWBOY taking care of ONE COW, it ain't dead!!!" (the Cowboy Way)
-Monte Walsh (Selleck version)
"These battered wings still kick up dust." -Peter Gabriel
-Monte Walsh (Selleck version)
"These battered wings still kick up dust." -Peter Gabriel
Re: Thompson Center Arms to be sold by S&W: Likely Demise
T/C has been for sale by S&W since spring 2021. They haven't made any T/C products since then.
With no buyer in that time, I'm not optimistic someone is going to jump on it.
With no buyer in that time, I'm not optimistic someone is going to jump on it.
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Re: Thompson Center Arms to be sold by S&W: Likely Demise
Be nice if Ruger would buy the company and use their investment casting to go back into production. Not holding my breath though.
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Re: Thompson Center Arms to be sold by S&W: Likely Demise
The TC saga saddens me going back a good few years. I have three old TC traditional muzzleloaders and miss the good old days when they had a dozen or so traditional models to choose from. No, they weren't historically correct, but they had solid traditional roots and were a good quality product. Nowadays for more traditional MLs it's either very cheap of very expensive. TCs absence has left a void
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Re: Thompson Center Arms to be sold by S&W: Likely Demise
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Hopefully people have any parts break on their Encore or Contender firearms ..
Hopefully people have any parts break on their Encore or Contender firearms ..
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"first do no harm" - gun control LAWS lead to far more deaths than 'easy access' ever could.
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Re: Thompson Center Arms to be sold by S&W: Likely Demise
when was the last time I saw a TC......??????????
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Re: Thompson Center Arms to be sold by S&W: Likely Demise
Tough to find a buyer for... nothing.
What are you getting? The rights to a brand name that you ran into the ground and killed? Technical packages for items you killed what small market interest there was by not producing any. A darn shame.
What are you getting? The rights to a brand name that you ran into the ground and killed? Technical packages for items you killed what small market interest there was by not producing any. A darn shame.
Slow is just slow.
Re: Thompson Center Arms to be sold by S&W: Likely Demise
Therein lies the problem. The bottom $ sale price reflects the value of the real estate and manufactory and machinery but all that can be got for the price is the brand name and so-called "good will". There are 4 s & w employees filling orders and a c.s.rep. answering inquiries for the t/c branded hornady bullets and sabots and lead conicals and the like.....
https://www.grafs.com/thompson-center
32 items in-stock.
m.A.g.a. !
- CowboyTutt
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Re: Thompson Center Arms to be sold by S&W: Likely Demise
Cas nailed it. A very sad story that reflects poorly on S&W. There is almost nothing to sell. -Tutt
"It ain't dead! As long as there's ONE COWBOY taking care of ONE COW, it ain't dead!!!" (the Cowboy Way)
-Monte Walsh (Selleck version)
"These battered wings still kick up dust." -Peter Gabriel
-Monte Walsh (Selleck version)
"These battered wings still kick up dust." -Peter Gabriel
Re: Thompson Center Arms to be sold by S&W: Likely Demise
And with that being said I have a Contender frame with 10” 357 MAX and 6.5 TCU barrels as well as dies and brass THAT WILL hit the market as soon as I’m back in the country
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