Early Pedersoli Hawken?

[Shiloh1944]

Does anyone know if Pedersoli made an earlier Hawken rifle prior to their current Rocky Mountain Hawken? I recently purchased a Pedersoli Hawken that I believe is before their current one. The only barrel markings are in this order, the serial #, the cal., Pedersoli trademark, Black Powder only with made in Italy under that. It has a Maple stock with a 32" browned barrel, case hardened butt, lock, and trigger guard/group, and a pewter nose cap. I didn't like the plastic looking finish on the stock so I took it all down and refinished it. It had a few rough spots here and there but nothing major and I was able to fix them with no problems. The only down side, and it is only a slight one, is that it is a 50 cal instead of 54. I haven't yet been able to get it to the range as I just finished doing all the stuff on it that I wanted to do.

Anyway, back to my original question. Did Pedersoli make an earlier Hawken prior to their current one?

 

[Shiloh1944]

Here are my two Hawken rifles. The top one is an Allen from Santa Fe NM and the bottom one is the Pedersoli that I just purchased and re-did.

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[Zonie]

Over the years, Pedersoli has made several halfstock rifles of that type in both flint and percussion.

Among these are the Country Boy, the Hawken and the Plainsman.

 

[Shiloh1944]

Finally got to the range and shot the Pedersoli. Here is a four shot group at 50 yards, .490 patched round ball and 70 grains of FFFg Hogden black powder. I am very pleased with how it shoots. A bit of tweaking and I think I can do even better.

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