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  1. Herb

    Beckwourth Rifle Copy

    There are several threads about this rifle on this forum. I was asked by its owner to make a copy of it. It is now done, about $1000 in parts and materials and over 300 hours of figuring out how to build it, what parts might work or how to make my own and then building it. Jeff wanted it...
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    The Horace Kephart Hawken

    Horace Kephart was a firearms writer of the early 1900s. His book "Sporting Firearms and the Hawken Rifle, Rifles for Big Game and the Hunting Rifle" is a treasure of comparison details of rifles and calibers. There is good information on the Hawken family and their rifles. I got my copy from...
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    Jim's New Years Shoot

    He held his traditional shoot on New Year's day, but it was so cold no one wanted to shoot. Bob comes from Golden, CO for this each year, so I said I'd shoot with him. Kyme came along, plus two observers. We shot steel targets out in the junipers along the trail and across a canyon, "at least...
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    Olde Eynsford in my .54 Bridger Hawken

    I have posted about Olde Eynsford testing done with several rifles, and it is here for anyone wanting to look it up. Here is one example The full story is here: http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showpost.php?post/1340675/
  5. Herb

    Powder tests in a .58 Leman flint elk rifle

    I got the fantods (Jack O'Connor) from too many hours of building a close copy of the Kit Carson Hawken. It was 50 degrees here and no snow, so I figured I should try out my .58 Leman, recently rebored by Bobby Hoyt from a .54 GRRW barrel that went through a fire and was rebuilt by me. I made...
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    Olde Eynsford Compared to Goex and Swiss

    I talked with Craig Kirkland, owner of Bear River Powder, Evanston, Wyoming, at the Fort Bridger Rendezvous. He said Olde Eynsford did not sell much, and that the only caliber he had got OE 3F to group well in was a .38 caliber black powder cartridge, I forget what it was. I have not been able...
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    A Utah Pronghorn Hunt

    After five years of applying for a pronghorn hunt on Utah's South Slope Bonanza/Diamond Mountain unit, I drew a permit. I had hunted this unit twice before. It is south of Dinosaur National Monument, east of the Green River, south to the White River and east to the Colorado border, about 700...
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    A Utah Elk Hunt

    Larry and I hunted bull elk in the Uintah Mountains from November 2 to 10. He used a .58 fullstock flintlock Hawken I built, and I used a 24" .54 GRRW barrel that went through a fire and which I made into a Leman fullstock flintlock, loosely copied after the original. I made it with a 13"...
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    Buffalo Tongue

    Carney had his .22 Woods Walk shoot on Sunday, 50 shots, 29 shooters, I came in eighth with a score of 42. Anyway, Roger cooked the meat and had burgers, brats and what looked like small steaks, about 1/2" thick and the size of my palm. I took one and it tasted like a good steak but was so...
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    I Built a Left-Handed T.O.W. Kit Carson Hawken Over the Weekend.

    Well- mostly. Friend Bob got a wild hair and decided to build a Hawken rifle. Never mind that I built him one 20 years ago, a left-handed caplock with a GRRW 1x32" barrel and a 14" LOP stock I hand-sawed out of a plank of West Virginia walnut, the other parts basically a Kit Carson Hawken. He...
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    .54 Bridger Hawken Loads for My Elk Hunt

    I have a muzzleloader antlerless elk hunt the end of the month and have been checking out my loads. This in my copy of Jim Bridger's rifle I built. First day I shot 80 grains of Goex 2F, only three shots without my chronograph, but that velocity is about 1500 fps. Used a salvaged target from...
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    Swiss 1 1/2 Compared to Goex 2F in my Bridger Hawken

    I checked my prediction of how Swiss 1 1/2F compares to 110 grains of Goex 2F and found I was wrong. I based my prediction on how Swiss 1 1/2F behaved in my .58 flintlock, but I shot it in my .54 Bridger Hawken and it behaves differently, fouling less. I made a measure that holds 110 grains by...
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    Jim's Peep Shoot 2015

    Jim held his Peep Shoot on Easter Sunday. He started this in 1998 when he took a break from clearing the Junipers for his cabin. He had some stale marshmallow "Peep" candy in the truck and he and friends used them for targets with their muzzleloaders. They found they could hit the ground...
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  14. Herb

    .45 Flintlock Powder Tests including Pyrodex and Triple 7

    This follows the test I did with my GRRW Leman percussion rifle, see that forum first. I shot Trenton's .45 Lancaster (or whatever I made) today to compare it to the GRRW Leman. It has a 36" Green Mountain barrel and Chambers Classic lock with a single trigger. The muzzle is slightly coned...
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    .45 GRRW Leman powder test including Pyrodex & Triple7

    I built a .45 Leman Trade Rifle at the Green River Rifle Works in 1978. This was in a class in Antique Custom Riflesmithing taught by Greg Roberts, production manager. I may give this rifle to my greatgrandson Trenton, 14, in Hawaii. He wants to hunt wild pigs and really wants a .45 flint...
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    Flint's Frolick 2014

    Flint held his annual flintlock frolick up Dry Fork Canyon today. Eight of us shot, a low number due to the deer season being on. Jim Goodman (reclining) took first place, I was second, and Lisa, who was new to muzzleloading shooting, took third. Then there was a shoot-off of the top three...
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    Powder Tests in a .54 GRRW Choke-barreled Hawken

    I just gave my favorite .54 Hawken to my nephew David, after testing some patching. He should get the rifle in the mail October 15. See "Chronographed Loads in my Custom Engraved .54 Hawken" in this forum. He has no experience with muzzleloaders and could use a good mentor around Prairie du...
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    Chronographed Loads in My Custom Engraved .54 Hawken

    I am giving this rifle to my nephew David and wanted to check patch material and Goex and Olde Eynsford powders in it for velocity and accuracy before shipping. I built it in 2001, using a Douglas barrel and a barrel-inletted blank. Sawed it out with handsaws. Built it for Ron Smith, who...
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    My Diamond Mountain Utah Mule Deer Hunt

    I drew a limited entry muzzleloader buck deer permit for South Slope Diamond Mountain, Utah, starting September 24, 2014. I had a ML hunt here in 1998 and killed a buck. This is 22 miles on good blacktop road and then another six on dirt road to the end of where I hunt, sagebrush uplands. I...
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    Sean, the Third Time Was the Charm

    So I'm out on Diamond Mountain, Utah on my special draw muzzleloader mule deer hunt. Took maybe four years of applying to draw. Had my .58 halfstock flint plains rifle I built, loaded with 110 grains of Goex 2F and a linen-patched roundball. On the third day, I walked south along a ridge and...
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