Pair of Green River Rifle Works Hawken Rifles

Beautiful rifles for sure

Nazgul58 said:

This is my GRRW Hawken.
Don

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Nice rifle, Don. Appears to be in good shape.

That's one of what I call the "transition" pattern of GRRW Hawken rifles. It still has a Cherry Corners breech & tang, but has a Ron Long lock rather than the William Morgan lock. The "transition" pattern filled the gap between the "first standard" pattern with the William Morgan lock and the "Bridger" pattern that GRRW developed after they had the original Jim Bridger Hawken in their shop to study.

The "transition" pattern started around serial number H-150 and ended with serial number 363. Ron Long started advertising his Hawken lock about the beginning of 1975, so that's a good guess as to when this pattern started. In late 1976, GRRW started making the Jim Bridger Commemorative Hawken rifle for the Montana Historical Society. They likely switched from making the "transition" pattern to the "Bridger" pattern in the 3rd or 4th quarter of 1976.

If you share your serial number with me, I can give you an estimate when your rifles was made.

Those are some sweet rifles. The fullstock is especially nice. I have a half stock built by Davy Boultinghouse that I've had for over 40 years and it's a shooter. So a full stock would be next on my list.
My ex-brother-in-law had a GRRW Lehman Trade Rifle, it was very well built and very accurate. I hope whoever stole it out of his truck appreciated it.

Those are absolutely gorgeous!!! Makes my Lyman GPR look like a toy.