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Old 07-20-2011, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Iggy View Post
That there is "fat cow doin's." A very nice rendition of the ol Hawken.

Only thing I see is the front sight might be mounted ba'kards...
No, it is correct. It is those who turn them around so they resemble a "Baughman" that are wrong.

Overall it is a very nice rendition of a late S. Hawken rifle, from the last years when he was working in Denver. Actually, a 32" barrel is fairly short for a Hawken, the originals averaged about 34", with some early guns 42" and possibly longer. There is one glaring error on it, and that is the barrel wedges. While the vast majority of rifles which had the barrels retained by wedges had the wedge heads on the right, a true Hawken typically had the wedges inserted with the wedge heads on the left side. Average caliber for a S. or J.&S. Hawken was .53 caliber using a ball of typically .526 diameter.

And, Bruce Lee M, please don't make comparisons between a Thompson Center rifle and a good replica Hawken. The only similarity between the two is being muzzle loaders, and precious little else! Thompson Center appropriating the name "Hawken" for their rifles is, and always has been, a travesty.

"Mountings" and "Furniture" refer to the same things, so use of both terms together is redundant. For firearms the term furniture is the more correct term. In firearms terms "furniture" refers to such items as the butt plate, toe plate, wedge plates, thimbles, nosecap, trigger guard, inlays, etc. These are the things which "furnish" or "finish out" the stock, in the same way that chairs, tables, etc. "furnish" or "finish out" a house. Hence the same term being used to describe what seem at first to be very different types of items.
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