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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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks you guys and gals for the nice compliments.

RanchRoper wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:05 pm

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.