What is about a Hawken Rifle

[The Hawken Shop®]

I am no expert on Hawkens so here goes there is a full stock Hawken Flinter but not a half stock flint just Precusion?

There are no documented classic mountain/plains rifles in flint.

 

[GoodRabbitPilgrim]

Kits from The Hawken Shop are $1,400.00 and finished rifles are $2,995.00. There are wood upgrades available at extra charge. Our barrels are from Rice and all other component parts are made in house from original part patterns and tooling. The barrels are marked S. Hawken, St. Louis. Our rifles are historically correct and are a direct continuation of the 1825 St. Louis enterprise.

Doesn't get much more authentic than that! I would get one in a heartbeat if getting one to my part of the world didn't cost an arm and a leg.

 

[Tenring]

I did not think so. Thank you….

 

[Tenring]

Follow up, But the Hawken style does look Bad Ace in flint though.

 

[LME]

Kits from The Hawken Shop are $1,400.00 and finished rifles are $2,995.00. There are wood upgrades available at extra charge. Our barrels are from Rice and all other component parts are made in house from original part patterns and tooling. The barrels are marked S. Hawken, St. Louis. Our rifles are historically correct and are a direct continuation of the 1825 St. Louis enterprise.

A $3000.00 rifle and you don't even get the best wood?

 

[belld416]

I definitely love the way a Hawken feels when you shoulder one and the way they look. Like one gentleman said “ just something about them”.

I bought a .54 caliber, 30” GMB, Siler lock with Davis double set triggers. I bought this gun from Deer Creek Guns here in Georgia a couple years back. They didn’t know much about the gun but that it was built by an older gentleman that had passed away. His family had sold off his gun collection.

I love shooting this rifle and have did well in a few matches that I have shot with it. I would like to have known if it was a kit or if he had built it himself. A lot of the inletting was done by hand. So someone put a lot of skillful work into it.

 

[Tenring]

Just think the time he spent building it with some hopes and dreams and some fun interruptions , and now someone else has it. Funny how life works, The rifle is really nice.

 

[tippit]

I love my two Hawken style rifles...
Brant Selb .54 Hawken and John Bergmann .47 Hawken...

 

[William Sublette]

Follow up, But the Hawken style does look Bad Ace in flint though.

I've always kinda felt the same way.

 

[Tenring]

William Sublette did you build this rifle it’s stunning nice work if you did.

 

[LME]

A Hawkin rifle seems to to be the rifle that has no faults. They have the look , they have the mechanical excellence and they perform like a perfect rifle should. Remember all of your best girl friends? The Hawkin is all of them combined! I would get rid of my wife before I would let my Hawkin go! Just kidding but close? LOL!

 

[Crow-Feather]

I do love the hooked breech for cleaning, but my heart lies with the Poor Boy in Kentucky or Southern. The Hawken reminds me of a short fat truck. The long rifle looks like a Jaguar XKE.

 

[William Sublette]

William Sublette did you build this rifle it’s stunning nice work if you did.

Nope, not me.

I paid a real gun smith to make it for me.


It's nice and I like it.

 

[plmeek]

but my heart lies with the Poor Boy in Kentucky or Southern

Some Hawken rifles look very close to a SMR, just larger caliber for griz and buff.

GRRW Full Stock Hawken in .50 caliber

 

[Lfpdlt]

I will hopefully be filling the freezer this fall with my .54 cal Jonathon Browning Mountain Rifle.

 

[Flintlock Whiskey]

Kits from The Hawken Shop are $1,400.00 and finished rifles are $2,995.00. There are wood upgrades available at extra charge. Our barrels are from Rice and all other component parts are made in house from original part patterns and tooling. The barrels are marked S. Hawken, St. Louis. Our rifles are historically correct and are a direct continuation of the 1825 St. Louis enterprise.

Do you have a website address for your shop?

 

[plmeek]

I would like to have known if it was a kit or if he had built it himself.

I believe your rifle was probably a scratch built, or at minimum, built using a pre-carve stock inlet for barrel and drilled ramrod hole only.

I don't know of any similar kits that came with a Siler percussion lock like on your rifle.

The trigger guard looks similar to the guard that Sharon Rifle Barrel Co. included with their Trade Rifle.

But that's the only thing I see that looks like it might have come from Sharon. The lock, triggers, breech, and stock are all different and probably sourced as individual parts from suppliers.

 

[hanshi]

I consider the Hawken style rifles to be very easy on the eye; but they just don't do it for me. For one thing, if it isn't flint, it isn't perfect. The various styles of longrifles capture my attention and my imagination more than the Hawken. It may have something to do with my fascination with Colonial and early American history.

 

[French Colonial]

Hanshi said

For one thing, if it isn't flint, it isn't perfect

Amen brother!

 

[Tenring]

I love a a Hawken Flint, I know they never were but in my mind they always are, how’s that for some deep philosophy it scared me.