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  1. Herb

    muzzle work help

    Hello, Buck. I look forward to the spring event! I'm presently finishing up another Kit Carson Hawken with a .54 15/16 Rice barrel for a lighter rifle. Those Bridgers are so big and heavy that my second one was the last one I want to build.
  2. Herb

    muzzle work help

    This is my first copy of the Bridger Hawken shot from bench at 100 yards. Hand filed muzzle treatment.
  3. Herb

    muzzle work help

  4. Herb

    muzzle work help

    You can open it up with a wooden dowel and sandpaper. I do. This was a .50 caliber Green River barrel and a copy of the Kit Carson Hawken I built. I bought a straight 1/2 inch dowel at the hardware store and cut a 12 inch piece. I turned down one end to 3/8" to chuck into my drill. Next I...
  5. Herb

    Alliant Black

    Here it is in a 24" barreled .58 rifle I built. This is a flintlock, load with Alliant Black MZ was a measure that held 100 grains by weight of Goex 2F, filled a little low and added about 10 grains of Goex 2F on top of the charge. Dumped that down the bore and primed the pan with Goex 2F...
  6. Herb

    Alliant Black

    This was a wonderful powder. Treat it like Goex 2F. 80 grains is a good load with a roundball. I've used some of this powder and like it.
  7. Herb

    58 caliber PRB loads

    Here is a comparison I did, .58 caliber 36 inch Green Mountain barrel (1-70 twist) and a Hoyt rebore, 24" 1-60 twist. Another.
  8. Herb

    Full stock Hawkens rifle

    I slipped on a rock while elk hunting and as I fell I turned my rifle to land on its butt. Hit a rock with the toe and broke it off. I was surprised at how easily that butt plate bent. In the repair, I fitted long screws under the toe plate across the crack. Now every Hawken I build has...
  9. Herb

    Full stock Hawkens rifle

    Full stock Hawkens- plus a few more in the photos. Left is a .58 by Herb, right is a .54 by Neill Fields. My .58 flintlock.
  10. Herb

    How accurate can patched round ball be?

    .54 Bridger Hawken I made. Bench rest at 100 yards. No wiping between shots. Charges from weight-corrected measures. Shot on the plain paper at top to check for lateral zero. Then on to the other two groups.
  11. Herb

    Who made this Hawken?

    Yes. The rim size is about .560, and they may be brass, plain steel or copper-plated steel. Chuck one in a drill press, file it down Keep measuring it with a micrometer until you get to the desired size. Take it out and check for roundness. Lightly file down any high spots there may be...
  12. Herb

    Who made this Hawken?

    Here are the bore gauges I made for .54 caliber, and a tapered bore gauge such as the museum technician had at hand. I gave him my measurements, but they did not change their text. I measured a GRRW barrel with the tapered gauge. It has 7 lands and grooves, so a land is opposite a groove...
  13. Herb

    Muzzleloader magazine

    There are hunting stories each issue. I wrote "A Diamond Mountain Mulle Deer Hunt in Utah" (editor's misspelling!) in the July/August 2015 issue. Parts of that story are in the Hunting Journal on this forum, September 28, 2014. I also wrote "A Utah Pronghorn Hunt" in the November/December...
  14. Herb

    Who made this Hawken?

    I measured the bore of Liver Eating Johnson's Hawken at the Cody Firearms Museum in December, 2018. The museum technician had the brass tapered bore gauge at hand. I used bore gauges I made that screwed onto the end of a ramrod, hand filed to exact sizes. The muzzle was about .583 but the...
  15. Herb

    Who made this Hawken?

    .56 caliber means to me that someone stuck a bore gauge in the muzzle and read it. The muzzle is most likely relieved and the real caliber is probably .54.
  16. Herb

    Any thought as to what school this patch box would be from

    With a seven knuckle hinge and the sideplates going past the hinge, those are western Pennsylvania features.
  17. Herb

    The Horace Kephart Hawken

    Thanks for the videos. No roundball muzzleloading .54 or .58 could deliberately hit a bison at 400 yards. Using Hornady's Ballistic Calculator and a 225 grain .530 ball with a Ballistic Coefficient of .075 at 1800 fps, here is the trajectory: If zeroed at 100 yards, the ball would strike two...
  18. Herb

    The Horace Kephart Hawken

    Mulebrain, that is a very nice looking rifle. I really like the color. Hermanoshawken (nice name). I have not handled the Pedersoli Hawken, but if I know what it is, I kinda like the lines. It probably is a very good rifle. I strongly recommend against using these heavy loads in ANY rifle...
  19. Herb

    The Horace Kephart Hawken

    Thanks, Notchy Bob. Boomerang, the Carson Hawken is always shown with the keys on the lock side. Don Helberg of the Masonic Lodge in Sante Fe where the rifle is kept, told Mountain Meek and my friend Bob last December that the keys are not pinned and were originally with the heads on the left...
  20. Herb

    The Horace Kephart Hawken

    I had a lot of trouble with previewing this post. That last photo should have been different. Don't try this at home. If you left-click the photo, a sharper image comes up. If there is a little + sign, click that for a larger and sharper image. Here is a graph of charge and velocity.
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