• This community needs YOUR help today. We rely 100% on Supporting Memberships to fund our efforts. With the ever increasing fees of everything, we need help. We need more Supporting Members, today. Please invest back into this community. I will ship a few decals too in addition to all the account perks you get.



    Sign up here: https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/account/upgrades
  • Friends, our 2nd Amendment rights are always under attack and the NRA has been a constant for decades in helping fight that fight.

    We have partnered with the NRA to offer you a discount on membership and Muzzleloading Forum gets a small percentage too of each membership, so you are supporting both the NRA and us.

    Use this link to sign up please; https://membership.nra.org/recruiters/join/XR045103

Recent content by victorio1sw

the hawken shop
Muzzleloading Forum

Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
  1. victorio1sw

    Re-Boring And Rifling A 50 Caliber Hawken

    I have been away from this website for months, and am just now returning. I also spend time with the Colt Forum website, and others. At the time that I built this Hawkens (1967) I was in touch with many shooters who made the Brady, TX matches. Not certain, but I suspect that someone at the...
  2. victorio1sw

    Untouched "Black" Percussion Pennsylvania Rifle With Whitmire & Wolff Lock

    I doubt that a nice piece of fiddleback maple would have been used if the maker was going to paint it black.
  3. victorio1sw

    Re-Boring And Rifling A 50 Caliber Hawken

    I have been away from this website for months, and am just now returning. Your reply was extremely informative, with the various measured octagon barrel sizes, tapers, and lengths provided.
  4. victorio1sw

    Untouched "Black" Percussion Pennsylvania Rifle With Whitmire & Wolff Lock

    Apparently, this rifle "sat" in a museum for a very long time. Both the wood and brass trim are essentially black. The steel parts have acquired a light rust and grime. A card was attached saying that it belonged to one James W. Patterson. His early locations are unclear – although...
  5. victorio1sw

    Re-Boring And Rifling A 50 Caliber Hawken

    Thanks for providing Robert Hoyt's contact info. I will call him and leave a message, if he cannot answer at the time. My question about loss of barrel length stemmed from a "feeling" that there may be some rifling tool "chatter" near the muzzle and breach end. The breach end would be left...
  6. victorio1sw

    Re-Boring And Rifling A 50 Caliber Hawken

    Thanks for providing Robert Hoyt's contact info. I will call him and leave a message, if he cannot answer at the time. My question about loss of barrel length stemmed from a "feeling" that there may be some rifling tool "chatter" near the muzzle and breach end. The breach end would be left...
  7. victorio1sw

    Re-Boring And Rifling A 50 Caliber Hawken

    Thanks for providing detailed information on Hawken barrels that you have seen and studied. All I have is the old Hanson book on "Plains Rifles". My eyesight is also going down hill. But even when young, I had difficulty in using open sights. So for serious shooting, I added temporary peep...
  8. victorio1sw

    Re-Boring And Rifling A 50 Caliber Hawken

    I totally agree. Who can be recommended to do that 62 caliber re-boring job? Is any loss of barrel length involved?
  9. victorio1sw

    Re-Boring And Rifling A 50 Caliber Hawken

    I looked at the possibility of shortening the barrel, but feel that the reduced sight "radius" would be detrimental to accuracy. That micrometer tang sight assembly is just silver soldered on, and I plan to remove it. Also the hooded Lyman front sight was a temporary experiment. It will be...
  10. victorio1sw

    How Often Are "Remington" Marked Barrels Seen On Completed Percussion Rifles?

    A very nice example! Great execution of the candy-striped rod too. I wonder, does that rifle have a hooked breach, or is the upper tang integral with the breach plug?
  11. victorio1sw

    Re-Boring And Rifling A 50 Caliber Hawken

    That is a good point. Right now the CG is near the fore end cap on this half stock Hawken. In other words, it is about where my left hand is positioned (as a right handed shooter). Moving the CG back towards the breach plug forces some of that weight to be borne by the crescent buttplate (my...
  12. victorio1sw

    Re-Boring And Rifling A 50 Caliber Hawken

    That may be a better idea. With steel weighing 0.287 #/Cu Inch, that 7" barrel reduction would drop the weight by 1.7 pounds. With a 50 caliber bore, my 1-1/8" octagon barrel weighs 0.244 #/Inch of length.
  13. victorio1sw

    Re-Boring And Rifling A 50 Caliber Hawken

    As they say "old too soon, smart to late". This applies to my question here. In 1966 I built a 50 caliber half stock percussion Hawken, using a Bob Roller lock and Douglass barrel. W. L. Mowrey of Jacksboro, TX made the tang-breach plug assembly. It is a pretty rifle, inletted to perfection...
  14. victorio1sw

    How Often Are "Remington" Marked Barrels Seen On Completed Percussion Rifles?

    . Thanks for your reply. I had heard that many times "Remington" was on the bottom of the barrel. I guess it depended on whether the actual rifle maker thought that the Remington name would add value and appeal to his rifle. When I built a 50 caliber Hawken rifle in 1966, I turned...
  15. victorio1sw

    How Often Are "Remington" Marked Barrels Seen On Completed Percussion Rifles?

    Thanks for your reply with this information. I know that Remington celebrated their 200th anniversary recently, and this legacy mostly began with barrel manufacture.
See more
Back
Top