Most 'Authentic' Hawken

[gunsmithgreg]

Money makes the impossible dreams come true .

The Hawken Shop is still producing genuine S. Hawken Classic Plains Rifles in kit form. Can't get closer than that. www.thehawkenshop.com

 

[bpd303]

Your link does not work. Here it is.
https://www.thehawkenshop.com/

 

[gunsmithgreg]

Your link does not work. Here it is.
https://www.thehawkenshop.com/

Thank you. Correction made. My typing sucks.

 

[Notchy Bob]

Thank you. Correction made. My typing sucks.

You can blame it on auto-correct. I have to correct the “autocorrections” pretty often.

Notchy Bob

 

[OldMaineWoodsman]

FWIW, there is a Western Arms Santa Fe Hawken for sale on GunBroker.

 

[CuNosecap]

Thanks for the comments, NotchyBob.
Other than my first builds in 1978-80, which were CVA, This Stith is my only percussion build.
It is very easy to shoot at the range due to its weight, but it would be a bear to lug in the field.

 

[Notchy Bob]

Thanks for the comments, NotchyBob.
Other than my first builds in 1978-80, which were CVA, This Stith is my only percussion build.
It is very easy to shoot at the range due to its weight, but it would be a bear to lug in the field.

Kind of a funny story from the frontier… There was an Indian trader named Auguste Lacome in New Mexico and southern Colorado in the 1840s and 1850s, I think. He had a rifle which is believed to be an unmarked Hawken, originally fullstocked but cut back to half-stock at some point. This rifle, which is still in existence and currently in the Museum of the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, is a beast, with a .58 caliber bore and weighing in at about 13 pounds. Lacome was out one time with a couple of helpers and some pack mules laden with trade goods when he was accosted by a party of Utes. They threatened to kill him, but then let him live. However, they relieved him of his trade goods, most of his animals, and his weapons. The funny part is that after a few minutes, they gave his Hawken back… They said it was too heavy!

Notchy Bob