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Newest T/C Hawken
« on: February 03, 2010, 04:49:24 PM »
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Re: Newest T/C Hawken
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2010, 05:40:47 PM »
Nice.  No teasing now, what's the full story?
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Re: Newest T/C Hawken
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2010, 11:43:56 PM »
I traded my 700ML for it.  It was the last of my plastic guns and I felt it just didn't fit in with the rest of my collection.  It's just a regular old .50 with a 1-48" twist.  The stock has some pretty curl but you can't really see it.  Notice the "trade knife" my friend gave me.
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Re: Newest T/C Hawken
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2010, 07:19:39 AM »
Good trade.
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Re: Newest T/C Hawken
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2010, 08:21:00 AM »
That is a pretty gun.
I have always liked the TC Hawken.
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Re: Newest T/C Hawken
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2010, 10:40:23 AM »
She's purty, was it a factory or kit?
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Re: Newest T/C Hawken
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2010, 11:27:28 AM »
It's a factory made gun.  The knife is an English Trade Knife by Jeff White.
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Re: Newest T/C Hawken
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2010, 12:01:38 PM »
Nice lookin' smoker Swampman. Those Hawkens are the best lookin' far as I'm concerned.
Are you gonna shoot patched round balls?


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Re: Newest T/C Hawken
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2010, 12:16:47 PM »
Yes I don't normally fool with conicals.  I have some that I may try just for fun.
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Re: Newest T/C Hawken
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2010, 01:34:51 AM »
I love it!! I`d love it more if it was a Flinter ;D Seriously, she has a great color to her 8) Are you gonna hunt her?

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Re: Newest T/C Hawken
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2010, 01:58:36 AM »
I will be hunting with this one.  After shooting and hunting with flintlocks for over 25 years I decided they just weren't reliable enough for serious hunting.  I love the romance but not the hassel.  The really expensive rifles and fowlers I owned with Chamber's Locks were 99% reliable.  The flintlock T/C Hawken I owned was probably 85-90% reliable.
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Re: Newest T/C Hawken
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2010, 04:57:56 AM »
Nice trade eh!
My TC Hawken in .54 likes the Lee REAL boolit pushed by 90grs Goex FFG.
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Re: Newest T/C Hawken
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2010, 10:53:26 AM »
Nice trade and I hope you will only use the holy black in her.  I have four  Hawkens rifles and love them  all.  My favorite is a .50 cal in 1 in 66" twist carbine and I am going to take her into the woods next season.  This is it:



I also have another one but in .54 cal and shoot sabots.  She has a 1 in 24" twist:



This one has bagged many deer!  I shoot a Barnes Expander sabot with 85 grs of Goex ffg.

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Re: Newest T/C Hawken
« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2010, 10:55:38 AM »
Quote from: Huntsman1 on February 05, 2010, 04:57:56 AM
Nice trade eh!
My TC Hawken in .54 likes the Lee REAL boolit pushed by 90grs Goex FFG.

My .54 above also likes the R.E.A.L conicals.  It gets a little expensive shooting the Barnes sabots after a while.    ;)
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Re: Newest T/C Hawken
« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2010, 02:30:13 PM »
Good trade!!!!
I love my Hawken in .54!  Best of the (small) collection.  I think you did well.
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Re: Newest T/C Hawken
« Reply #15 on: February 25, 2010, 07:04:15 AM »
Ha Larry where did you get the saboth barrel for your Hawkens o poo I am not to say that word here where did you get the barrel that  shoots the all brass projectiles where I live that is all I may shoot? I checked with GM and they wont have any anymore { drop ins} and could not say if they will ever have any I guess a big contract for the military. Nim
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Re: Newest T/C Hawken
« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2010, 07:42:36 AM »
Quote from: Nim on February 25, 2010, 07:04:15 AM
Ha Larry where did you get the saboth barrel for your Hawkens o poo I am not to say that word here where did you get the barrel that  shoots the all brass projectiles where I live that is all I may shoot? I checked with GM and they wont have any anymore { drop ins} and could not say if they will ever have any I guess a big contract for the military. Nim

The 1 in 24" barrel that shoots conicals nicely was from Cabalas.  It ran me $400.  However, the PRB Hawkens from  InvestArms was from Gunboker and being sold by a dealer from  Florida.  I only paid $180 for it.  Big difference, but both are great guns in finish and accuracy.
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Re: Newest T/C Hawken
« Reply #17 on: March 14, 2010, 05:39:22 PM »
Swampman, anytime you trade a cartridge gun for a ML, you did good!  I'm like you regarding the flinters.  I hunted with them for years, killed a lot of deer and squirrels, but as I got older, I began to see I wouldn't lose the romance of muzzleloaders by shooting caplocks.  I had some custom longrifles, flintlocks all, but I haven't looked back.  I think the thing that really pushed me to the other side, was the sights of custom made guns.  The sights of genuine 1700's flintlock longrifles were tiny, tiny things, because the mindset then was that the smaller the sight, the more precice the sight picture.  But the makers today know the folly of that.  Even though the fine guns made today are reminiscent of the old ones, they ain't the same, not at all. Locks, metal, powder and everything else was inferior to what's available to us today. We can look the same, but we can't be the same.     
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