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Hawken Cougar Presentation Rifle Thompson Center Arms

Thompson/Center Arms was an American firearms company based in Springfield, Massachusetts. The company was best known for its line of interchangeable-barrel, single-shot pistols and rifles. Thompson/Center also manufactured muzzle-loading rifles and was credited with creating the resurgence of their use in the 1970s. Original or antique rifles were selling for high prices and most collectors opted not to fire these pieces. The T/C Hawken was the first of many muzzleloader types for Thompson/Center. The rarest rifle they produced was the Cougar a Special edition of the Hawken a run of 5000 in 1988, another run of 5000 in 1992 with presentation grade stock, non-glare pewter color stainless furniture, standard 1/48" Hawken barrel but with stainless thimbles., with a satin finish barrel, stainless furniture, and highly figured wood Warren Center's Hawken-styled black powder muzzle-loader rifles were modeled after the California Hawken. The St. Louis Hawken shop got rolling in the early 1820's. The sturdy, iron-mounted rifles which most of us think of when we hear the word "Hawken" were called "mountain rifles" in their time. Note that the ad by Hawken & Campbell from the January 20, 1855, Missouri Republican, list "Mountain and California rifles made to order, and repairing done on the shortest notice." So, California rifles were made in St. Louis, by the Hawken shop, and they were evidently distinct from the "Mountain Rifles." The term, "Plains Rifle" had not been coined yet, and was apparently not used until into the 1950's.