CVA model

[Walks Alone]

You know-Maybe they were not CVA, although I am pretty sure they were. I do know they were Spanish made, Jukar, Kits in .45. The same rifles imported by CVA later. I also had the Philadelphia derringer and a Kentucky pistol in flintlock, both kits. I do know for a fact the Kentucky was a cva-the derringer I don't recall. You could buy quite a few kit guns from various makers back then.

If it was 1975 they were not CVA Hawken's according to all the literature I have, so I'll have to trust it. I think CVA got their Spanish stuff from Ardesa and Santa Barbara. The Kentucky flint pistol and Philly could have both been CVA's though in 1975.

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Back in the mid 1970's there were Spanish, Japanese and far east, guns & kits sold by dozens of small now defunct companies.

In 1978, I bought a real POS hawken 45 cal kit for $40.00 at a going out of business sale (Murphy Mart) I can't remember the exact name, Mark-something, Company was out of business before I even bought the kit. Gun was nice and light easy to handle, but the internal lock parts dumped and fell apart on the 8th shot. Of course, none of the Dixie or CVA locks fit that same lock mortise. I didn't feel like messing with it and sold it to a guy for what I had in it. He used the metal parts and a CVA lock to build a gun with a piece of cherry he had.

 

[Pork Chop]

Back in the mid 1970's there were Spanish, Japanese and far east, guns & kits sold by dozens of small now defunct companies.

In 1978, I bought a real POS hawken 45 cal kit for $40.00 at a going out of business sale (Murphy Mart) I can't remember the exact name, Mark-something, Company was out of business before I even bought the kit. Gun was nice and light easy to handle, but the internal lock parts dumped and fell apart on the 8th shot. Of course, none of the Dixie or CVA locks fit that same lock mortise. I didn't feel like messing with it and sold it to a guy for what I had in it. He used the metal parts and a CVA lock to build a gun with a piece of cherry he had.

That was probably a Markwell Arms gun. I have one of their pistols. The stock was very nice. The trigger and the lock were wretched pieces (I replaced the trigger with a CVA modified to work), and the barrel was OK. Not great, but OK.