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May 20, 2020, 12:47 PM | #26 | |
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"What one does or does not do, today, effects someone else, tomorrow !!!" I do my share of restoration work on sidelock and it's a shame what some previous owners, did take care of. To bad the movie; Jeremiah Johnson, omitted the part of how much fun it is to clean them. …… Be Safe !!!
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May 20, 2020, 01:11 PM | #27 |
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This isn't quite as practical for rifles lacking the Hawken hook breech and wedge keys.
But my rifle does. So I remove the barrel assembly Most hand held showers have a hose that will screw onto male 1/2 in straight pipe By whatever plumbing miracle you can figure out,you want t attach that hose to a length of approx 3/8 diameter brass tubing..The length of the tubing is at least muzzle to breech plug. On the end of this contraption where the hose connects,I attach a piece of wire. I used aircraft safety wire. I slide that all the way into the barrel. I attach the wire to a ramrod thimble to hold the tube in the bore. Then I just turn on the hot water.The water jets full pressure into the breech plug and everything flushes out the muzzle. Soon,the water will run clear. Hopefully,your water will still be running hot. Use patches to swab and dry your barrel,then oil it If I'm someplace other then home,I use hawgs method of sticking the breech in the billy pot,and pumping. |
May 20, 2020, 01:53 PM | #28 |
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My neighbor the gunsmith built a "Hawkenish" rifle. It had the right profile, he scaled it off a photograph in a gunzine.
But he used a Dixie barrel and t'warnt no .40 Hawkens I ever heard tell of. And the stock was off'in a well seasoned cherry board and I never seen a cherry stock out of St Louis. The little .40 was plenty to kill a deer, not many buffer in the wild in Alabama any more. In fact, the minimum caliber for muzzleloading deer season was .40, I figure because of the prevalence of Dixie guns and barrels in those days. Then he discovered that a .38-40 bullet dipped in tallow based lube made a pretty good "picket ball." |
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the more stubborn fouling of substitute powders. Sometimes I'l wrap the same bronze brush with a cotton patch to add some friction and BP solvent to scrub with. And have also used a Hoppes Tynex .50 black powder bore brush which is a softer nylon type of brush that aren't as stiff as a bronze brush. Using something that adds stiffness can help to clean down in the breech plug area better depending on the type of powder fired. But using one is not always needed. Last edited by arcticap; May 21, 2020 at 01:11 AM. |
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June 1, 2020, 04:54 PM | #31 |
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Here is a thread I started about Hawken guns and Mountain Men. Its a pretty good read with a lot of interesting post from others who know a lot more about these guns than I do.
https://thefiringline.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=597926 |
June 3, 2020, 09:45 AM | #32 |
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Another vote for copper Chore Boy. Use a worn brush and wrap Chore Boy around it.
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June 3, 2020, 10:07 AM | #33 |
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a hawken during the mtn man era was a VERY VERY rare thing. Mostly a myth. Any rifle common back east, is what they took with them, west. I've only read of one hawken on actual paper work, going west and I THINK that was in 1838.
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June 3, 2020, 10:44 AM | #34 | |
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June 7, 2020, 03:36 PM | #35 |
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Since the Johathan Browning Hawken copy was brought I found one for sale on GB. Just in case anyone is interested. Not a bad price for a really nice looking rifle.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/870039351 |
June 7, 2020, 05:49 PM | #36 |
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Relative to this post,this is a pretty good article on Hawken Rifles,both originals and repros.
http://grrw.org/the-heyday-of-the-hawken/ |
June 7, 2020, 10:33 PM | #37 |
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Good article. It was mentioned in post #12 of the thread I posted above.
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