TC Impact Muzzleloader

[triggerpull]

Well--seeing how I have firmly maintained my grip on the title of world's worst deer hunter (meaning I didn't tag out)--in a final act of desperation I bought a TC Impact muzzleloader at Dick's Sporting Goods today--it was on sale for $200 and it will extend my season another 2 weeks.

Per the manual I did a field clean before use--and it took almost 10 patches that were black and filthy before the bore was reasonably clean--and the breech plug had tell-tale reddish look of ant-seize compound on it. I've always had this paranoia that big-box stores resell returned guns as new, but I'm new to black powder so my question is simply does Thomson Center test fire (and not clean) their muzzle loaders before shipping to dealers? The soreness on my backside says probably not--but I've had many other firearms built by reputable manufacturers that are test fired and delivered dirty--but TC is quite adamant about immediately cleaning black powder residue--so this seems unusual to me. What say the collective?

 

[GRAMPS 51]

Hi IMO you got a returned gun Black powder is corrosive if the gun sat uncleaned in the store for a month the bore would start to pit the reason they tell you too clean it first is too get any protective grease out of the bore as with any new gun

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[triggerpull]

Hi IMO you got a returned gun Black powder is corrosive if the gun sat uncleaned in the store for a month the bore would start to pit the reason they tell you too clean it first is too get any protective grease out of the bore as with any new gun

GRAMPS

That's pretty much what I thought--though I will call TC tomorrow to see for sure. I can't tell you how many times I've bought firearms that were sold as new but weren't. This seems to be a dark underside of the business--I suspect many dealers are willing to do whatever it takes to get something out the door.