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FOR SALE Sharon Barrel Company Hawken 54 cal. added Sale price
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It is extremely surprising this Sharon Hawken is still available. I have a .54 cal Sharon Hawken kit that I built during '76. Additionally, after Sharon Rifle Barrel Company closed shop in '78, or so.
It is extremely surprising this Sharon Rifle Barrel Company Hawken is still available. During '76, I built a .54 cal Sharon Hawken kit (which I still have); and, purist mountain men, buckskinners, and competitors felt that I took far more "1st place" and top five picks from the trade blanket than I deserved.
Anyone considering this rifle should take note of the following. Throughout Washington state & the Pacific Northwest, invariably, during the latter 70s, through the 80s, and into rhe 90s, the rendezvous/muzzleloading rifle competition aggregate winner was shooting a Sharon, Green River Rifle Works, or Hawken Shop .54 caliber half-stock Hawken.
Early on, I developed three loads for "Jake" (my rifle's name): 1) Plinking load consisted of 50gr FFg GOEX covered with a .530 hand-cast pure lead round ball, wrapped in a spit-lubed .0017 pillow ticking patch; 2) "Most" trail walk gong, silhouette, feather, card, string, & "split the ball" targets were shot with 70gr of FFg GOEX, using the afore mentioned patch & lube; 3) for "all" paper targets and hunting, the absolute most accurate load with which Jake performed best (MOA 100 yard accuracy from the bench using a competition type rifle rest), was 107gr GOEX FFg, topped with the same type spit-lubed patch.
Other top-ten shooters used either .530 or .535 round balls (all hand cast). Depending upon what their barrel liked best, they used various patch thicknesses & lubes. Each shooter developed his own projectile seating pressure (none of us beat up the leading edge of the round ball).
One thing we all did the same was after pouring our premeasured volume (not weight) of powder, we "hand-cut" each patch, this reduces in-barrel drag & muzzle exit drag. Hand-cutting each is accomplished by placing the patch material (spit-lubed 1" wide strip of .0017 compressed thickness pillow ticking) over the muzzle, and short start the combination "just inside" the muzzle of the barrel. Gather up the excess patch material in your nondominant, and using your razor sharp patch knife, slice the excess patch material from the muzzle. Remember, we learned in Boy Scouts (using our dominant hand), always cut "away" from our body.
There is more to be said about perfecting each of the aforementioned steps. However, utilizing these steps will make any barrel shoot better.
Point of my dissertation is "if you want to win, you cannot go wrong in buying a .54 caliber Sharon Rifle Barrel Rifle Company Half-Stock Hawken.
This is a cheap-shot at hijacking a post "and I apologize!" During the early-80s, I developed a muzzle loading rifle accuracy manual which many shooters used to become serious competitors.
Anyway, this .54 cal Sharon is a good buy.
