Author Topic: Hawken is DONE (Read 6774 times)

MountainDevil54 · « **on:** January 28, 2014, 03:51:00 PM »

A couple nights ago I blued the barrel and bedded the tang/trigger plate and a small section of the forward stock to prevent any side to side wiggle that may occur under recoil.

Then today I finished up all the stock work and applied the first coat of stain, this is one coat of Laurel mountain forge nut brown. It got a total of 4 coats nut brown and then for a SLIGHT reddish highlight, It will get 2 coats LMF Walnut stain. Finished off with low gloss tung oil. Shes going to be one heck of a good looker!

et1702 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 28, 2014, 03:55:05 PM »

Looks sweet! Did you also use the Laurel Mt Browning for the barrel? I have a couple underhammer barrels that I need to brown and I hear the Laurel Mt stuff is good. Any experience w/it?

Thanks,

ET

MountainDevil54 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 28, 2014, 04:00:33 PM »

Yes LMF browning is some real good stuff! Add humidity to speed up process otherwise it can take a while to do.

I used birchwood casey perma blue gun paste, worked out excellent and left a rich blue/black finish. Followed up with 2 coats johnsons floor paste wax for protection.

C-Money · « **Reply #3 on:** January 28, 2014, 04:11:47 PM »

Looks great!!

MountainDevil54 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 28, 2014, 05:00:12 PM »

Antiqued the brass with 2 coats of the bluing paste and then washed, dried and coating with brass black, washes again and LIGHTLY buffed with steel wool to get it the color I wanted.

MountainDevil54 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 30, 2014, 04:19:40 PM »

Duuuuun!

full choke · « **Reply #6 on:** January 30, 2014, 09:28:40 PM »

Nicely done!

et1702 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 31, 2014, 01:27:56 PM »

Very Nice! Time to get out and see how she shoots. BTW, I think I will try the Laurel Mt Browning solution for my barrels. I have a 50 cal 1/28 twist for sabots and a 62 cal w/Forsyth rifling for RB shooting in my underhammer. Now I need to get busy so I can get out to the range too.

ET

snowpack · « **Reply #8 on:** January 31, 2014, 01:43:38 PM »

looks really good. would look better laying across the royals of a dead bull, though.

deltaops · « **Reply #9 on:** January 31, 2014, 01:47:55 PM »

That looks real good. Thought about doing something like that to one of my shotguns before I pass it down to my 9yo.

CAMPMEAT · « **Reply #10 on:** February 01, 2014, 03:33:49 PM »

Well done........... very nice.

scottcrb · « **Reply #11 on:** February 01, 2014, 03:38:48 PM »

good looking smoke pole

Phobic · « **Reply #12 on:** February 01, 2014, 04:52:00 PM »

wow very nice looking.

NoImpactNoIdea · « **Reply #13 on:** February 01, 2014, 05:08:23 PM »

The wood turned out great!

JBar · « **Reply #14 on:** February 02, 2014, 05:22:05 AM »

Turned out awesome

turkeyfeather · « **Reply #15 on:** February 02, 2014, 05:27:20 AM »

That is a beauty!

rasbo · « **Reply #16 on:** February 02, 2014, 05:35:33 AM »

geat job looks awesome,good luck with it,hope ya bring lots of meat home

elkboy · « **Reply #17 on:** February 02, 2014, 01:17:52 PM »

Wow, that is beautiful! Can't wait to see some paper from the range! I'd love to do a project like that someday (and then bring some meat home with it!)

Dan-o · « **Reply #18 on:** February 02, 2014, 01:20:15 PM »

Awesome looking work.......

I hunted with a Hawken for about 20 years, until my wife bought me an inline and I went to the dark side....

Sometimes I miss that rifle.

MountainDevil54 · « **Reply #19 on:** February 02, 2014, 01:57:10 PM »

Had to order a taller blade sight as the rear is calibrated for a .400" tall front sight. One minor thing I over looked

Some newer pics I took the other day,

MountainDevil54 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 03, 2014, 02:20:43 PM »

90gr Schuetzen with a .562" round ball didn't shoot that great with this powder but at least it reacts the same way my other twin of this rifle does! Huge comfort once I switched to a much tighter .575" ball with a .015" patch. Only 2 shots as I am out of the .575's now.

50 yards

usmc74 · « **Reply #21 on:** February 03, 2014, 08:20:54 PM »

That looks GREAT!
I just picked up an old stock, CVA kit Hawkins. Has both the 50 and 54 barrels.

How long did it take you to build it?

ML_Hunter · « **Reply #22 on:** February 03, 2014, 10:13:05 PM »

Looks excellent!! I built one a while ago, it was a fun project. Maybe one of these days I will build another one.

MountainDevil54 · « **Reply #23 on:** February 03, 2014, 10:57:24 PM »

Quote from: usmc74 on February 03, 2014, 08:20:54 PM

That looks GREAT!
I just picked up an old stock, CVA kit Hawkins. Has both the 50 and 54 barrels.

How long did it take you to build it?

Just a couple weeks, The parts coming in took longer to arrive

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