Just adding info from Member Silverfox to this SN# thread;
"I've got one with serial number 00009517. It is a .45 Made in USA and it has yet to be loaded to many other toys to play with. My.50 MR I built from a kit in the 70's won lots of gear and then my Son took it and is still shooting it. It is his favorite rifle.
I got the rifle off one of the auction sights about 2 years ago. It was listed as a non working Hawken. The picture was poor but I noticed the 4 screw patchbox and wanting spare parts for my old MR I put in a bid as no one seemed to be interested in a non working Hawken. When it arrived it was as I had expected a MR. It was a untouched kit just put together no finish. It had the normal trigger plate to deep so the lock would not work and that was the only problem that kept it from working. It will not be used as a spare parts kit buy the time I finish with it.
Now it is a .45 Connecticut Valley Arms.Inc,blackpowder only and Made In USA and the serial 00095XX are the only marking on the barrel. The best I can measure is .450 inside the barrel and the crown widest part shows .458. The lock is marked Spain on the inside.
The only unusual thing on this rifle is the heel of the butt plate. It is not the normal rounded over like all the others I have looked at it looks like it was made this way. Now the heel has a flat tip about .550 wide this is something I have not seen before so it makes this a unique one of a kind so far. Normal CVA hardwood stock.
That just about covers it."
Thanks for sharing,,
"I've got one with serial number 00009517. It is a .45 Made in USA and it has yet to be loaded to many other toys to play with. My.50 MR I built from a kit in the 70's won lots of gear and then my Son took it and is still shooting it. It is his favorite rifle.
I got the rifle off one of the auction sights about 2 years ago. It was listed as a non working Hawken. The picture was poor but I noticed the 4 screw patchbox and wanting spare parts for my old MR I put in a bid as no one seemed to be interested in a non working Hawken. When it arrived it was as I had expected a MR. It was a untouched kit just put together no finish. It had the normal trigger plate to deep so the lock would not work and that was the only problem that kept it from working. It will not be used as a spare parts kit buy the time I finish with it.
Now it is a .45 Connecticut Valley Arms.Inc,blackpowder only and Made In USA and the serial 00095XX are the only marking on the barrel. The best I can measure is .450 inside the barrel and the crown widest part shows .458. The lock is marked Spain on the inside.
The only unusual thing on this rifle is the heel of the butt plate. It is not the normal rounded over like all the others I have looked at it looks like it was made this way. Now the heel has a flat tip about .550 wide this is something I have not seen before so it makes this a unique one of a kind so far. Normal CVA hardwood stock.
That just about covers it."
Thanks for sharing,,