Black Powder Day

[BigAl52]

Went to my Black powder range and met up with my friend Phil from Denver. He is a great guy and very knowledgeable about the history of the Hawken Rifles. Phil is also a Green River Rifle Works historian and collector. I got my new full stock Hawken last Thursday. Its a John Bergmann build. John is a builder who resides in Granville Tenn. Hes been building rifles since the 70's. He does great work and is just a super good guy. My new rifle is 54 caliber full stock with CCH butt plate, lock, trigger guard, and tang. John does the CCH himself. I must say it came out really nice and it shoots really well. I only have one target here to show as it was sight in day. I need to do it again and remember to take my file to file down the front sight. The gun is shooting low. 80 grains of 2fg swiss a 530 ball with .018 patch. Big holes. We like big holes in the paper. Right RR.

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Here is the gun. Took this picture at home obviously. I tried to take some at the range but the sun was so bright I couldnt tell where I was at in relation to the gun as it was blinding the screen out. So in order to get closer to the gun I retook this one at home.

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[JEBar]

beautiful wood and metal on that 54 .... how heavy is she ...

[RanchRoper]

Wow, real nice. Percussion cap right? Tempting for sure.

[BigAl52]

Yes percussion cap. Jim I havent weighted it but guessing 10lbs. The barrel is 1 inch across the flats

[North Country Gal]

Wow! How can anyone not love that rifle? Gorgeous and your shooting does it proud.

[fortyshooter]

Yep that is one real fine rifle Al and looks like it shoots really well! Some big ol' holes in that target!

[RanchRoper]

That's it, I'm getting a cannon...Al can't make bigger holes than me.

[Vaquero]

I like it Al, mighty fine lookin smoke pole. Congrats
And looks like the two of y'all are Jellin'.
Can see lots of smoke in your future.

RP

[BigAl52]

Thanks you guys and gals for the nice compliments.

[BigAl52]

That's it, I'm getting a cannon...Al can't make bigger holes than me.

I can go one bigger RR. I have a couple 58 calibers in the basement.