Quick story on this rifle and place. The rifle was brought in to get cleaned, some surface rust ect, its all hand made as best as "Icould tell all marks on it arent mch tool marks. This man built it for his dad many years ago and it took him 3 years to carve the stock out ect,take the 1st pic see the line running around the lock plate wood, ? , its carved 1/32" all around the rifle front to back,at first I thought it was some kind of 2 part stock upper and lower??? If youlook again at the 1st pic + 1 or 2 of the others you can maybe tell the nose cap, trigger guard, tang , butt plate, adj rear Hawken sight is blued?? but polished so high it looks like black chorme! You can see yourself in it. The silver inlays are pure silver, as a few parts like tip of front sight looked to be pure gold (very soft) why??? This man went to a hell ofr a lot of work to make his dad this one, wish I could of got the rest of the story. The shop itself has 1 type of every black powder gun made the last few 100 years, the walls ect are covered, and the walk in vault is :shocked2: youd have to see it to belive. Ive known the owner for about 40 years and this was the first time hes let anyone take pics inside his shop at a later date I'll try a few of the wall of hand guns, he has some I cant even tell you how they would work. Anyway, as dark as it was and the Hawk was off under a bunch of other rifles I still saw a Hawk in the bunch, I must have the Hawken fever. :rotf: Fred :hatsoff: