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    Tennessee rifle

    The Tennessee rifle imported by Traditions is manufactured in Spain by Ardesa. It is a good rifle to start, as it weighs little. In Spain it is only sold in 45 caliber, because 50 caliber is sent to you, Americans. With the new flint lock that Ardesa makes, that rifle also works very well. It is...
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    New Hawken

    Hello. The Hawken of the 45 with a 32"inch fast twist, manufactured by Ardesa in Spain, is a good rifle. It has a 32" long barrel and two keys. The wood is walnut. But it is a rifle for maxi-bullet or cylindrical bullet. With round ball and patch it only works well with small loads of black...
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    Read Horace Kephart's article on Hawken Rifles

    Zonie, thanks so much for your reply. I will follow your advice, which is wise. Hopefully everything will be solved and you can buy the classic Horace Kephart book. But I really like Hawken rifles, ever since I was a child at the age of 10 in 1973, I saw in my town the movie "Jeremiah Johnson"...
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    Read Horace Kephart's article on Hawken Rifles

    Hello, fellow Americans. I am in love with Hawken rifles and in the last 15 years, thanks to the internet, I have bought Hanson and John D. Baird's books on plains rifles, and specifically on Hawken. I have also studied the articles published in the 1950s by John Barsotti, about mountain men and...
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    Traditions Rigby Rifle

    Hello. The Rigby marked Traditions, it was manufactured in Spain by the artisan A.M.R. (which also manufactured muzzleloader shotguns). Ardesa manufactures a Hawken Match with many brass ornaments and patch box, with a Henry-Creedmore barrel, caliber 0.451, and a 20 inch twist, for 500 grains...
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    Unfired CVA 12ga SxS

    In the nineties, I also had a two-barreled shotgun equal to that, as they were made in Spain, but now I prefer those of a single barrel, in percussion or flintlock, and with a longer 32 inch barrel. Saludos.
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    Flintlock and percussion shotguns, in Spain

    Hello, do not worry about the language. I do not know much English either, because before in Spain, French was studied in high schools. What I intend is to hunt with muzzleloaders in Spain and that it is legal, because it is a more ecological hunting. Greetings friend.
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    Flintlock and percussion shotguns, in Spain

    Thank you very much for your advice. I'll keep them in mind.
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    Flintlock and percussion shotguns, in Spain

    Hi. I have made a couple of simple videos in my nation, Spain, to create hunting enthusiasts with muzzleloading shotguns (single shot flintlock and percussion fowlers). Well, there are many people who believe that these weapons are useless. I leave the links of YouTube. I hope you like them...
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    Traditions Muzzleloader

    The muzzleloaders of CVA and Traditions are manufactured in Spain in the same region: Vasque Country. CVA is manufactured by Dikar and Traditions by Ardesa. Dikar is in Bergara and Ardesa in Zamudio (Bilbao). They are towns that are less than 70 milles away. The quality of the flint locks it has...
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    Traditions Kentucky?

    Now Ardesa (which makes for Traditions) makes a pretty good Flint lock, similar to the small Siler, with a very strong mainspring and a wide and well tempered frizzen. It is the lock that they put in the Pennsylvania rifle and that it can also be put to the Kentucky, in addition it takes briddel...
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    CVA Mountain Rifle Catalog Specs

    Hi. I have a catalog of Dikar that is in Spanish and in English. It must be from the early 80's. In it come the muzzleloading weapons that they made, and among them the "Mountain", that in Spain we call "Montana". I have it in PDF format but I do not know how to share it here in this forum...
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    cva mountian rifle

    The Mountain Rifle barrels manufactured in Spain for the CVA were manufactured in the 70s and 80s in Premíá de Mar, near Barcelona, ”‹”‹and were mounted in Bergara, in Vasque Country (Spain), by the Dikar Factory. These guns were made in calibers 45, 50, 54 and 58 (0.575) in a turn of twist...
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    Gallyon? What The Heck Is A Gallyon?

    Hi. I live in Spain and I have the Gallyon cylindrical shotgun, without choke. Shoot very well bullets of 0.690 and 0.710 with cotton patch and 62 grains of Swiss black powder No. 3, 2 FFg. Greetings.
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    Cheap shotgun?

    Ardesa, in Spain (for Traditions), manufactures a muzzleloading shotgun: single-barrel, halfsotck, 12 gauge and 32" long barrel. It weighs less than 7 pounds and have a good lock and barrel. His name is "Fowler". Greetings. You tube: ARDESA FOWLER Vorderladerflinte Kal.12 (muzzleloader shotgun)
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    Matchlock Pistols did they exist?

    In Spain, the artisan ARSA, makes an excellent replica matchlock pistol (Japanese Tanzutsu).Greetings. http://www.avancargas-arsa.com/paginas/armas/tanzutsu.htm
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    Springs Traditions Hawken flintlock

    Thanks again. The only thing that worried me was the excessive strength of the frizzen spring.
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    Springs Traditions Hawken flintlock

    Thank you fellow JLA and Zonie . Your answers seem very successful. Thank you for your help.
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    Springs Traditions Hawken flintlock

    I think the frizzen spring have too much force (5 pounds). Thanks for the answers.
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    Springs Traditions Hawken flintlock

    Excuse me, I meant what weight has to have the frizzen spring. Thank you.
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