Lets see some of those heavy bear and game guns

I would be interested is seeing your heavy caliber ML's intended for big and dangerous game like bear, buffalo and moose.

Please share them with us if you got 'em. :hatsoff:

Joe

CVA Mountain Rifle .54cal I shoot 80gr Pyrodex RS and a home-cast .530 round ball for elk.

.54 cal, 38"bbl by Cooner54. Currently on loan to NRA museum, as an example of a contemporary Hawkin.

.62 cal, Hawken style rifle 42" GRRW barrel..Built by Doc. White..

This is a fullstock flint Hawken I built a couple of years ago. It has a .58 1" X 36" GM barrel, L&R lock and triggers.




Here is a full view. It is the rifle on the bottom.

DANG! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Those are some fine looking guns there. I love them big ones.

I had to wait for daybreak to photograph mine.

It is a Custom Leman Flinter made in the 70's. It has a 36" .58 caliber Green River Rifle Works barrel. It was made for one purpose and one hunt. For Alaskan Kodiak. The last time this gun spoke earned it a silver bear inlay in the stock.







Thanks for sharing your pictures. Keep 'em coming. :thumbsup:

Joe

.54 Hawken that I built in 1985. Companion piece to 3 more just like it. It has killed almost every year since it was built, and I have never had anything walk away from it.

Mine won't see anything besides deer but if I could, I wouldn't hesitate to use it on dangerous game. My custom New England style 34" .58 cal built by Roy. :thumbsup:

The biggest I have are my two .54s.

The top 2:
.54 x 38" Green Mtn Barrel
.54 x 32" GPR Barrel

Here are 3 more .58's...that ought to do the job. Meat makers fer sure. :wink:

Those are some fine, fine Hawkens! :bow:

rool:

I like the wedge pins in them guns.....better idea than them little needle pins.....when did they start using the heavy...double..wedge pin? :thumbsup:

have always wanted a .58cal fullstock Hawkens flinter,that would be my dream rifle.

Cooner-
Them babies go into my mental file, under 'Best of Breed'!
Hmmm...uh!
Longshot :thumbsup:

Cooner54's rifles are even nicer lookin' in person... the fit and finish are outstanding. He is a true Artist and Craftsman :thumbsup:

This is my altered .58 cal CVA Mt Rifle, it has a GM bbl 34" long, Davis set triggers. I added the cap box as the Big Bore Mt Rifles didn't have cap boxes, it also has a poured nose cap and a reshaped stock and a hunters star in the reshaped cheek piece, it also has a silver thumb piece with my initials on it.







All of this work was done 15 or more years ago, I killed 30-40 deer with the original barrel and I still have it,along with several other barrels I have fit to it.
Regards, Longball 58

My 54cal Lyman GPR

MEET 'ELISABETH'-----SHE SPORTS A 44" SWAMPED RICE BARREL IN A 54 CAL. & A DELUX SILER LOCK..BUILT BY DON YERKS FOR ME TO HUNT DEER, BEAR, AND ELK.










NEXT TO 'ELISABETH' IS HER LITTLE BROTHER---MY LYMAN GREAT PLAINS IN A 54 CAL THAT GOT ME HOOKED ON BLACKPOWDER.

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Bear and .58 Edward Marshall flinter.