New .58 caliber Hawken type Rifle

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The one on top is a .54 caliber. It has a 36" J. Goodoien barrel, engraved Bob Roller lock, a checkered wrist with curly maple stock. The lock, trigger guard, and butt plate are color cased, which have aged (faded) to a mottled gray. The nose cap is pewter, but the ram rod thimble, patch box, and toe plate are nickel plated. The stock is slightly thicker than the one below. The only thing I can think of was it was intended as a competition or just fancied up rifle. I do not know who built it. 7
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The bottom one is the .58 caliber that I just received. 36"À Rice barrel, with browned iron furniture. Both rifles have a browned barrel.
Both rifles are quite nice as well as correct handed. I especially like the checkered stock on the walnut side stocked rifle.
I picked up a .53 Hawken, walnut stock and of course, correct handed, seven years ago. The patch box and just about everything else is Nickel silver with the barrel being browned but what drew me to buy it was the 15 inch length of pull, which fits my 6'8"A frame nicely. It is a chunk, ten pounds at least.
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I have been wanting a .58 caliber Hawken type rifle for some time. Recently, I sold an unmentionable rifle that I had not fired or used in over 30 years to a deer hunter up in Maine. If you live up that way you can probably figure out what it was. Anyway, I used the proceeds to order this .58 from George Nelson in Minnesota. It was delivered this week. It has a 36" Rice match-grade barrel, and a little better than plain Maple stock, but not over the top curl. I also requested a full buckhorn rear sight, and browned iron furniture. TOW has a couple of his rifles on their site if you want to see some other examples.
How did you contact him? I can find no address.
 
If you send an email to Track of the Wolf, they will provide you with his contact info. He builds rifles for them as well.
I tried them. They said they don't give out any info of their suppliers. Probably don't want people to go around them.
 
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