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  1. Notchy Bob

    Santa Fe Hawken or Browning JBMR ?

    Given the choice, I would probably opt for the Santa Fe Hawken. The .53 caliber bore is not a problem. Production made moulds are readily available in .520” and .526”, as well as cast balls in both sizes and swaged balls by Hornady in .520”. The Santa Fe Hawken is not a perfect replica of the...
  2. Notchy Bob

    Latest build - English export fowling piece

    Outstanding work, Rich! The engraving looks great! Notchy Bob
  3. Notchy Bob

    Did Pedersoli stop production of their 62 caliber Indian trade musket?

    Pedersoli’s trade gun uses their LOTT flint lock, which has been a staple for probably close to 50 years. The lock has been available a lot longer than the gun has. Brad or Shane Emig at Cabin Creek Muzzleloading can tune it up for you so it will work better and last longer than it would...
  4. Notchy Bob

    Smooth Rifle

    Mr. Wheland did an outstanding job on your gun! Absolutely beautiful. I like your choice of the rifle-style trigger guard, also… it just looks more appropriate somehow than the fowler-type guard on this gun. Thanks for showing it! Notchy Bob
  5. Notchy Bob

    Paper Cartridges?

    There has been a lot of discussion about paper cartridges here on this forum. Use the “Search” function in the right upper corner of your screen and you should find enough reading material to keep you going for a while. I would like to point out that the ball usually goes in the paper...
  6. Notchy Bob

    Target Rifle by J.H. Rector of Syracuse, NY

    Dave, I’m gobsmacked! That rifle is a beauty, and in such good shape! I like all muzzleloaders, but everybody has favorites and I’ll have to say the late-era percussion rifles, the so-called “plains rifles,” are the ones that really get my attention. The fly in the tumbler is a great feature...
  7. Notchy Bob

    Converting to musket caps?

    Good thinking! You’re way ahead of me, Bud! :thumb: That sounds like the way to go. Notchy Bob
  8. Notchy Bob

    Converting to musket caps?

    Either of those may work, and would be easily reversible if they don’t. You might even try shimming the lock plate with very thin cardboard or heavy paper for testing before you invest time and treasure into shim stock. The washer under the hammer has some potential, but if you hold the lock...
  9. Notchy Bob

    Crazy Crow knife

    I think that eight-inch butcher knife is just right for @Omahkapi'si 's persona. I like to read the literature of the period, and not only trappers but soldiers and just about anybody else outfitting for a trip to the mountains in the early 19th century carried a butcher knife. You see it...
  10. Notchy Bob

    Converting to musket caps?

    I appreciate @Timber Wolf ’s comments. One of my rifles, a CVA Big Bore Mountain Rifle, had a misaligned hammer. After three tries with heating red hot and still not getting it quite right due to over-bending one way or the other, I figured the hammer was annealed enough that it would tolerate...
  11. Notchy Bob

    Fadala Article on T-C .56 Cal Smoothbore?

    Thanks for that article, Tom! It opened up just fine. Good work! Notchy Bob
  12. Notchy Bob

    Converting to musket caps?

    As long as the rim of the hammer nose clears a capped nipple, your best bet may be to just try to live with it. If the rim of the hammer cup is hitting the cap, you may need to bend it. I’ve bent hammers from sporting locks a time or two, and found it a tricky procedure to get right. You...
  13. Notchy Bob

    Indian owned hawken rifles?

    I’ll have to look for the details, but I remember records of inventories of native guns turned in by defeated tribesmen during the plains Indian wars of the 1870s. There were at least a few Hawkens among the guns that were confiscated. You can find this in Dorsey’s book about guns of the...
  14. Notchy Bob

    Anybody Heard of HuntingGiant ?

    I was looking around for some non-muzzleloading outdoor items and ran across this outfit, which had a couple of things that interest me: Hunting Giant I had never heard of them before, but I don't get out much. The name, "Hunting Giant," sounds a little weird, but I guess it's no weirder than...
  15. Notchy Bob

    WITHDRAWN 520 mold

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  16. Notchy Bob

    Most 'Authentic' Hawken

    Kind of a funny story from the frontier… There was an Indian trader named Auguste Lacome in New Mexico and southern Colorado in the 1840s and 1850s, I think. He had a rifle which is believed to be an unmarked Hawken, originally fullstocked but cut back to half-stock at some point. This rifle...
  17. Notchy Bob

    Most 'Authentic' Hawken

    You can blame it on auto-correct. I have to correct the “autocorrections” pretty often. Notchy Bob
  18. Notchy Bob

    Most 'Authentic' Hawken

    Now, that is a righteous Hawken. The hardware and the lines look “right.” A lot of people now believe a rifle of that weight is too heavy, but if you want an authentic Hawken “Mountain Rifle” as the old-time trappers and plainsmen carried, that heft is what you want. The brothers did build a...
  19. Notchy Bob

    Most 'Authentic' Hawken

    Don Stith passed away two years ago this month. I had heard that someone obtained his muzzleloader patterns, parts, and tooling but I don’t remember who it was and had not heard anything about it recently. However, I clicked that link in the post @bigted quoted, to see if Mr. Stith’s website...
  20. Notchy Bob

    Re-vamp the site?

    I think @westrayer was joshing. Guns in the classifieds are awfully tempting. I try not to go there intentionally, but once in a while there is a Classified link in the “New Posts” section and I get pulled in and find something I don’t need and can’t afford but really, really want… Lead us...
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