Hold that foreend!

[Kurt]

Yes, that is what I had in mind. That is a fine looking early Hawken.
The last one I build was supposed to be a full stock, but I got in a hurry making the stock from a plank I got cut from sugar maple and when I was cutting out the barrel channel I got in a hurry and used a router. Sneezed and it ended up being a 1/2 stalk I wanted the old look on the wood so I used a citric acid and fire to get the dark old looking wood. It hides most of the good Maple figure unless you see it in the light. It is a .58 caliber I made for a Alaskan Moose hunt that I never got done. But it dropped a 235# field dressed buck on a full boiler room full of steam when I saw him at 160 paces. I held on his nose and the ball went through both shoulder blades and took out the spine knocking him sideways.
The barrel is 1 1/8" across the flats to take a heavy charge.