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  1. Herb

    hawkins

    I fitted two, 2" long screws in the wood under the toeplate and glued the piece on, then put the toeplate back. Now I reinforce the toe with long screws under the toeplate of each Hawken I build, to reinforce the toe. The Bridger Hawken has the toeplate riveted to the buttplate with a 1/16"...
  2. Herb

    hawkins

    So, I found the other photo, my first fullstock flinlock Hawken.
  3. Herb

    hawkins

    I've built three of them. Top is a .58, my elk rifle of years ago. Second a .54 engraved. Third a .40 St Louis "squirrel rifle". Last a custom .50 for a young woman. Next picture, the same except a Don Stith .54 I built for a guy in the Aleutian Islands. Then my .58 buttstock and cap box...
  4. Herb

    Double ball loads

    Stumpkiller, if you read my posts you will learn that I corrected for the velocity drop by doubling the powder charges and succeeded in developing a full power safe and legal (in Utah) double ball .40 caliber hunting load for Carole. Here she is with her rifle. This is 35 grains of Swiss 2F...
  5. Herb

    Where is Herb?

    Thanks for your concern, 1776. I am in fact building another copy of the Jim Bridger Hawken, and playing guitar and singing for the Care Center (today) and a Beehive home (assisted living) tomorrow, and weekly. Been doing this for about 25 years. I don't post unless on a subject that I just...
  6. Herb

    Double ball loads

    Tom A Hawk, I have experience with this subject and wrote about it on this forum. My friend Carole hunted mule deer but did not have the hand strength to reload her .50 Thompson Center for a follow up shot, if needed. She asked me to build her a .40 caliber rifle to her size and length of...
  7. Herb

    Speaking of Tapered Hawken Barrels

    Dutch, AOTS was my abbreviation for "Ahead of the Snail". I tried to save a few words. These tapers are so slight it makes me wonder why they did it. Can't be any significant weight savings on most barrels. It would have been a lot of work to file those tapers. Maybe it was how they made the...
  8. Herb

    Speaking of Tapered Hawken Barrels

    Dutch, you are correct to say Hawken barrels with SLIGHT tapering. I have measured some originals. Here are the results: Jim Bridger Hawken, barrel 33 1/4" long ahead of snail. Measured 1.175 ahead of snail and 1.125 at the muzzle. That is the thickness of a dime, half of that taper per...
  9. Herb

    Speaking of Tapered Hawken Barrels

  10. Herb

    Has anyone used stocks....

    Scota4570, thanks. I posted pictures of some of my Hawkens in the Photo forum in the "Jim's New Years Shoot" thread.
  11. Herb

    Jim's New Years Shoot

    I didn't know how to put the captions with each photo. I built all these rifles except Kyme's. The first five Hawkens are two Kit Carson .54 caliber, my copy of the Jim Bridger in .54, which I hunted deer and elk with and have shot 1500 to 2000 times, a .58 flint halfstock which I killed a mule...
  12. Herb

    Jim's New Years Shoot

    He held his traditional shoot on New Year's day, but it was so cold no one wanted to shoot. Bob comes from Golden, CO for this each year, so I said I'd shoot with him. Kyme came along, plus two observers. We shot steel targets out in the junipers along the trail and across a canyon, "at least...
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  13. Herb

    Suspicious Hawken Rifle

    I'll be taking over 100 measurements and descriptions of each of the Hawken rifles available to handle, 25 or more? Yes, I can give answers to specific questions but am too lazy to, or knowledgeable as to how to, post my data.
  14. Herb

    Suspicious Hawken Rifle

    I thought that Gordon photo of the Medina lock looked odd. I just looked at the photos I took of the Medina rifle in Gordon's Glorieta, NM museum in 2010 and the snail fit is very close. I also looked at 32 St. Louis stamps on Hawken rifles in Gordon's book. All seem to be with the same...
  15. Herb

    Suspicious Hawken Rifle

  16. Herb

    Suspicious Hawken Rifle

    Of 37 Hawken rifles in Jim Gordon's book "Great Gunmakers for the Early West, Volume III", all have straight comb lines, toe lines and belly lines. The only exception is the Jim Bridger rifle, which has maybe 1/16" "slight fish belly" of the toe line, as recorded on the tracing made of the...
  17. Herb

    Your experience with Old Eynsford powder?

    Pictures are back. Photobucket must have had a hiccup.
  18. Herb

    Your experience with Old Eynsford powder?

    My pictures have disappeared. This must be a Photobucket problem. Anyone else have this problem, and I am paid up. Cannot call them up.
  19. Herb

    Your experience with Old Eynsford powder?

    You can check Claude's reference above for the answer to this.
  20. Herb

    How far can a ball travel?

    Hornady has a Ballistics Calculator, use it on their website, that you can manipulate to try out various shots. For a .440 roundball with a ballistics coefficient (C) of .062, 1800 fps MV, front sight height of .550 above center of bore, and a zero distance of 100 yards, the drop at 1100 yards...
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