Plains rifle

[Mustang]

What do you tribute to the lack of surviving Hawken rifles? World you say hard use and poor maintained or just time alone. I suspect like anything else that goes out of favor for more advanced items, older Hawken rifles were probably neglected when smokeless can into use.

[Mustang]

I think you are right. Thanx for the discourse.

[butterchurn]

Hey, I used to own an 8-Track.  In fact, two of them.  I do not have them any more.  I did have 8-Track tapes until last year when I threw them out since I could not play them.  So, you only have my word that they existed.

[Captchee]

hehhe , i actualy still have one  

[Mustang]

These aren't exact copies of plains rifles but here ae number one and two that I have built.

first one


Second one


third one   ?

[Roaddog]

Mustang they are good lookn rifels. What cal. are they?

[Mustang]

They are both 50 cal. They are both made of used TC parts. The top one has a Green Mountain 32" barrel but the second one has a used 28" TC barrel. These are my first attempts at doing this. I oredered a 95% inletted stock blank folr the first one but there is so much work that is left to be done, I thought I may as well do it all myself. So I copied the blank for the second one. The ram rod hole is a real pain to drill.



I sold the stock TC sight and installed this L&R buckhorn.



The front sight ran into my grinder and file!

[Uncle Russ]

Very nice, Mustang
You seem to be right handy with such things, they turned out fine.

Uncle Russ...

[Mustang]

great picture

[butterchurn]

They are very nice.  Good work!