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Most had a hawkins gun which was a short barrel big bore rifle in either flint or cap with a half stock.
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No most didn't have a "HAWKEN" gun. That was the point made in the links I posted. Did you read them? Hawken rifles were rare and not often seen. They were about the best but the Hawken brothers couldn't build enough to supply all the mountain men or the later westward expansion. And the early guns were fullstock rifles, not half stock guns.