Kibler has announced a Hawken Kit in the works.

[Coinneach]

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Thank you sir, saved for future use.

 

[jdw276]

He said it would be percussion!!

But could it be with the lock on the left side as well?

 

[Frontier's]

As of today, there are 6 options for Hawken kits available!!!

 

[yellowhammer]

As of today, there are 6 options for Hawken kits available!!!

List, please, for us google-challenged. Thanks.

 

[Tenring]

With the Crunch of the Percussion Cap Epidemic , but real quick let’s get something out of the way first I my self and a lot of others here on many BP forums are pretty stocked with caps and really don’t have any concerns but for every other guy and gal that didn’t stock up when the getting was good I wonder if this was a good decision to build a cap lock model for the masses, I certainly could be wrong but just wanted to put that out there. But then again it’s not like a revolver where you need six caps with a rifle only one but a hundred round tin goes pretty quick as all of us know.

 

[billraby]

I agree, how much does one of those machines cost? Then he has to pay an operator. Semper Fi.

I paid about $30,000 for one a while ago. Just the welder. It was not any kind of automated setup. Laser welder can do some amazing things, but its uses really are quite limited. It would certainly not be my first choice for barrel ribs or ramrod pipes. Solder, rivets, screws would be the way to go.

 

[Buckskinquin]

As of today, there are 6 options for Hawken kits available!!!

Where, by who, price/caliber and ignition type?

 

[2 shots]

all i know is we better see the fowling piece first

 

[Patched]

Seems to be a flurry of excitement regarding Hawken Rifles…again.

In the beginning (1910s or so) a Horace Kephart fellow happened upon a 40 year old “new” Hawken rifle, tested it, wrote about its magical trajectories…everyone here should know the belabored details.

50 years or so later upstarts the Hawken parade;

Green River Rifle Works….Hawken Rifles (I have the two I bought then)
Bill Large Hawken Rifles
Thomson Center Hawken Rifles
Navy Arms Hawken
Investment Arms Hawkens
CVA Hawken
Cabela’s Hawken
Traditions Hawken
Sharon Hawken
Western Arms Hawken
Mountain Arms Hawken
Mowry Hawkens
J. Moses Browning Hawken
The Lyman Great Plains (Hawken)
Gemmer Hawken
Pedroseli Hawken
The Hawken Shop Hawken
and about 4 other Spanish, Italian and Turkish made Hawkens Rifles…

and….finally a Jim Kibler Hawken…

That should bring everyone together for a tender Kum-by-ya moment here on the forum.

 

[sturmkatze]

I have enough guns.

 

[jdw276]

I have enough guns.

What?

You always need just one more.

 

[tom in nc]

I'm glad some can afford it. I know I won't be able to.

 

[Indy Durtdigger]

all i know is we better see the fowling piece first

Confirmed in a video last week it will be available in the first quarter of the year, no hard date yet.

He's averaged 3 years ish to bring a kit to market. If he's just now asking for examples to get designs from, it's going to be a while.

 

[Blitz]

Some guys would have to work a long time to save $600 today. Yet, they still own a Hawken.

If it was 1830 i'd be working as a hunter in a brigade and supplying meat to a fort too. Not sure what that would earn me. However, no matter how long it took. I would have bought a Hawken. It would have my tool to earn more money.

A buck skin+ 1$ or a buck at that time , or about what a teen ager got for most work when I was a kid.
However at that time you could pretty much fill a large car trunk with groceries for $20 from meat to milk and all in between .
Unfortunately ,just like now inflation was a problem.
Iworked for SP railroad mid 50s an take home pay was right at $80 twice a month.
Fast food and entry level jobs are now pay now very close to what I earned in1999 at retirement as a skilled crane operator with 35 years in the trade.

 

[Kmcmichael]

Regarding guns:
if you know how many you have, you don’t have enough.

 

[Mtblackdog]

Regarding guns:
if you know how many you have, you don’t have enough.

Truth

 

[Patched]

Regarding guns:
if you know how many you have, you don’t have enough

Enough; (as applied to gun ownership) …a psychological “buzz” word used by tyrannical spouses and governments to limit an individual’s enjoyment of life, liberty and their personal pursuit of happiness…communist ideals dictate the wants and needs of the individual…
Never comply …and don’t marry a tyrant.

 

[sportster73hp]

If Jim can machine barrel lugs from a round barrel blank why couldn’t he machine the rib integral to the barrel? Still have to add thimbles. Maybe with screw as there would be more material available?

 

[Wncman]

Where, by who, price/caliber and ignition type?

I’m hoping they will offer a flint version.

 

[Mike in FL]

I have a.50 flint and a.58 percussion Hawken and a .54 Sharps.
I've got horses and mountains.
I'm good to go.
Can't wait to see the kit.

I’m hoping they will offer a flint version.

Me too, but I don't think he will because it wouldn't be historically correct.