Manual

Assembly of your Thompson/Center
Fire Storm
™
Muzzleloading Rifle
If you purchased your Thompson/Center Fire Storm rifle still packaged it was disassembled. Assembly
is relatively easy when you follow these steps:
1. Remove the ramrod from the thimbles under the barrel.
2. Grasp the barrel, and insert the hex head of the breech plug into the tang hole in the stock, mak-
ing sure that the breech plug fits flush against the tang.
IMPORTANT: When assembling or disassembling, keep the barrel at a minimum angle to
the stock; just enough for the lug to clear the lug slot in the stock. An angle sharper than
this will bind and possibly bend the tang.
3. Tip the barrel down into the barrel channel in the stock. The recoil lug should fit neatly into the
recoil lug receptacle slot in the stock.
4. Squeeze the barrel and forearm of the stock together with your hand, and insert the wedge pin
through the escutcheon hole in the forend and the hole in the recoil lug. The pin will fit snugly, and
may have to be tapped slightly for full engagement.
Note: If, when bringing the forend and barrel together there is heavy resistance, stop and check to see that
the hex end of the breech plug and the retaining ring are fully seated in the breech plug slot in the tang.
5. Once the barrel has been seated in the stock and the wedge pin is in place, reinsert the ramrod into
the thimbles under the barrel.
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Wedge Pin
Tang
Cutaway Showing
Breech
Plug
Tang Hole to
Accept Breech Plug
Recoil Lug
Stock
Assembly
Tang
Cutaway Showing
Breech
Plug
T
Recoil Lug
Primer
Hub
209
Primer
Ignition
The Fire Storm
cap lock features
209 shotshell
primer ignition.
209 Primer in Drum