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  1. Herb

    Do You See Anything Suspicious About This Rifle?

    Of 29 muzzles in Gordon's book where rifling can be seen (some are "funneled" and you can't see the rifling), the oldest has 8 lands, 24 have 7 lands and the four Missouri rifles have six grooves. The Cheyenne and Lincoln rifles have 7 lands. The Colorado Hawken is correctly stamped W...
  2. Herb

    Do You See Anything Suspicious About This Rifle?

    Scota4570, I sure wish there were Hawken parts that work. The 1 1/8" tang is badly shaped- too much hump and tail too low. You can bend the tail up, but the hump takes bright red heat and beating with a big hammer to flatten it where it belongs. The snails of all plugs are not well shaped...
  3. Herb

    Do You See Anything Suspicious About This Rifle?

    All the Hawken names were stamped. In addition to the 34 above, I also have photos of S. Hawken stamped rifles in a museum in Cheyenne and another in Lincoln, NE, plus a J&S Hawken stamp on another rifle in Helena, MT along with the Bridger rifle there. The Julia stamp is not like any of...
  4. Herb

    Do You See Anything Suspicious About This Rifle?

    In Jim Gordon's book "Great Gunmakers for the Early West, Volume III, Western U.S." there are photos of 34 Hawken stamps, J&S.Hawken and S.Hawken. The S.Hawken stamp has no space after the period. It looks as if Sam just filed off the J&. None of these look like the Julia stamp. The stock is...
  5. Herb

    Do You See Anything Suspicious About This Rifle?

    There is no original buttplate that looks like this one, nor a breech plug and tang. But I did not see any of this until you said to look closely.
  6. Herb

    Do You See Anything Suspicious About This Rifle?

    1. The curl of the rear trigger guard loop is not at right angles to the trigger plate. 2. The butt plate is Track of the Wolf's Bridger, which in the actual Bridger and Carson Hawkens is filed to a narrow edge. The thicker part at the corner is filed back so the return (tang) is 1.7" long...
  7. Herb

    Another Powder Question

    Rodwha: http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showpost.php?post/1650113/
  8. Herb

    wierd iginition problem

    Forget the old forum reader's tale of tipping the prime away from the flash hole. If I have flashes in the pan, picking the vent usually helps. But tipping the 4F prime into the flash hole insures ignition every time. I also tip 3F or 2F against the flash hole if I am using that.
  9. Herb

    Chronographing Loads

    I have worn out an Oehler 35P, had it rebuilt, and have badly damaged all the supports and sun shields with patches. I armor the uprights with tin, and glue the chips back in the overhead piece. Also shield the sensors, mounted on the bar and supporting the uprights, with wood. Set it out to...
  10. Herb

    We need hunting/trophy pics here!!!

    Here are photos of a few of the pronghorn bucks I saw on my September scouting before my hunt. This first one is probably a Boone and Crockett head. Don't even remember where I took this photo in my hunt area.
  11. Herb

    Olde Eynsford Compared to Goex and Swiss

    Yes, a Rice Jaeger barrel. I needed a light weight rifle.
  12. Herb

    Olde Eynsford Compared to Goex and Swiss

    Here is my bench and range. Using my long-range sighting, I hit a gallon milk jug at that refrigerator (!) some mentally challenged person hauled up into the middle of that hillside. 200 yards is about that biggest round juniper at the top of the hill.
  13. Herb

    Olde Eynsford Compared to Goex and Swiss

    I talked with Craig Kirkland, owner of Bear River Powder, Evanston, Wyoming, at the Fort Bridger Rendezvous. He said Olde Eynsford did not sell much, and that the only caliber he had got OE 3F to group well in was a .38 caliber black powder cartridge, I forget what it was. I have not been able...
  14. Herb

    Powder Brand Differences

    I did a comparison of Goex, Swiss and Olde Eynsford recently. See the Hunting Journal, "A Utah Pronghorn Hunt".
  15. Herb

    A Utah Pronghorn Hunt

    After five years of applying for a pronghorn hunt on Utah's South Slope Bonanza/Diamond Mountain unit, I drew a permit. I had hunted this unit twice before. It is south of Dinosaur National Monument, east of the Green River, south to the White River and east to the Colorado border, about 700...
  16. Herb

    One long day, a few years in the making.

    Hi, Sean. Thanks for the good hunting story. Nice Hawken, too.
  17. Herb

    Can one (or more) of us get in on this?

    Hey, Sean! Nice of you to think of me. I'd have to have a gun bearer and cross sticks to shoot over. Don't have the muscle anymore to shoot a 10 3/4 pound rifle off-hand. Just killed a 15" antelope buck with a 7 pound 10 ounce .50 fullstock caplock "Hawken" I built. (you remember I can't...
  18. Herb

    Old Eynsford 1-1/2 F?

    Being the champion string cutter at the Uintah Mountain Man shoot, using my .54 Jim Bridger rifle I made, I figured I could cut a string at 100 yards from bench rest. I did it twice. See targets below. I shot through my Oehler 35P chroniograph at a blank sheet of paper (top) for checking my...
  19. Herb

    Hacksaw carving tools

    Mudd Turtle- I use a lot of "carving" tools made from hacksaw blades. Grind the teeth off the front end with a bench grinder. Score across the blade with a grinder, Dremel carbide disk, or even a file. Break off in 2" long chunks. File a bevel on the end, they are soft and file and sharpen...
  20. Herb

    Unfinished Hawken kit

    You can bend the back half cold, up, down or sideways to take a "twist" out. But you cannot bend a hump out at the head of it without red heat. I have tried it and cracked a tang- twice! Slow learner. And it takes more than propane or Mapps gas heat for the bend.
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