My Hawken GRRW .54 Cal.

[Rick Mulhern]

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[Don McDowell]

535 round ball, tic patch and 110 grs. of 2f, she'll put meat on the table pilgrim.

[Kurt]

Rick your going to have to stand on your head to shoot that upside down rifle LOL. Just kidding a south paw. LOL

She is a beaut for sure!!! and I bet it will shoot just as well.
You did well.

Kurt

[Caprock]

Aw,, the locks on the correct side! [/i]

[Mike]

If anyone is interested in joining or learning more about the Green River Rifle Works Collectors' Association, drop a line to Bob Allen at
bob@bucksnorttradingpost.com. Their newsletter is the GRRW Gazette, ask for a copy. A whole lot of interesting history from the 1970s. Also, a number of the 'smiths who used to work for GRRW in Roosevelt, Utah, are now building a limited number of rifles once more, a bit of a come-back for the old GRRW. I'm to do a story about those new GRRW guns, copying the "old" GRRW models, in Muzzleloader magazine later this year. The GRRW guns did a lot to 'set the pace' forty years ago, some doin's for sure. Shoot sharp, Mike

[mherth]

If anyone is interested in joining or learning more about the Green River Rifle Works Collectors' Association, drop a line to Bob Allen at
bob@bucksnorttradingpost.com. Their newsletter is the GRRW Gazette, ask for a copy. A whole lot of interesting history from the 1970s. Also, a number of the 'smiths who used to work for GRRW in Roosevelt, Utah, are now building a limited number of rifles once more, a bit of a come-back for the old GRRW. I'm to do a story about those new GRRW guns, copying the "old" GRRW models, in Muzzleloader magazine later this year. The GRRW guns did a lot to 'set the pace' forty years ago, some doin's for sure. Shoot sharp, Mike

Thanks for sharing this info, Mike. I'm going to contact Bob and will be looking forward to your article.

[Kurt]

I think that is where the picture of my someday rifle might have come from the GRRW site. There is a lot of good reading if one spends time looking for it.
I have never seen anything negative about the way the shop assembled rifles looked or shot.
A lot of the bad rep's are from the kit build from what I have seen. That goes for the CPA rifles also where the wood is fitted and finished by the person other then factory.

[Rick Mulhern]

The Hawken arrived today and by golly it's just exactly like the way Track of the Wolf described it....EXCELLENT! The 'fit/finish' is as good as Shiloh Rifles does their work and I especially like the 'cut' of the rifling!

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Hard to believe that I've had this rifle since 1000 hrs. this morning and didn't shoot it before the day was over but I have been busy doing other things to be able to tend to necessities of checking it out etc.! I had to drill out a cleaning rod and retap it for a seating jag that would fit the .54 caliber bullet, lubing patches with pure olive oil and making a tgt board that will work in my back yard. The north side of my lawn is such that I can shoot 150 yards just adjacent to my homesite and I got that done today! This gives me a chance to shoot without driving up to the range without messing up the roadway after a big rain! It's been fairly cool here today with winds out of the north at up to 25 mph and my 76 year old bones just didn't want to withstand that! Nothing akin to what you guys up north have to face but I just couldn't make myself face those conditions! Tomorrow....Lord willing....I'll see what it will do on the target board! My intention is to leave the ramrod in place on this rifle for now....use another rod to seat the bullet and mark that ramrod to get consistent compression. I did remove the rifle rod and check it out; rather difficult to remove so I suspect I may need to sand the lower end where it fits into the stock for easier removal thereof!

[Don McDowell]

Looking forward to seeing what you can make that thing do Rick.

[Caprock]

You'll want a "show" and a "go" ramrod. The latter to actually hunt with and do heavy duty work. However, heavy delrin or stainless steel 'range rod' is best for loading, cleaning, and pulling loads anyway. Beautiful rifle. Had my eyes on these for many, many years.