Busyhands94
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just curious here. what classifies a rifle as a hawken. for me it's gotta have a forestock that ends fairly close to the lock, less than ten inches or so. and also those brass bands under the barrel, those seem "Hawken-ish" to me. i recently got my first flintlock rifle, it is a Traditions Frontier in .50 caliber. not to drift off topic here, but it is an amazing rifle. shot it today, accurate as can be. got the sights all dialed in, and now i can shoot a tin can from fifty paces. i have practiced with it to not flinch when the pan blazes. anyway, i would feel safe calling it a hawken rifle. any thoughts on what classifies a rifle as a hawken?
on a side note, i think i might have gotten my mother hooked on blackpowder shooting as well. as i mentioned before, my dad is really hooked on blackpowder. I'm hopelessly addicted, and my mother seems to really like it. she went shooting black powder for her first time today, and had a blast! (no pun intended) she shot my NAA super companion outfitted with my homemade rear sight and my Frontier flintlock rifle. she LOVED it. the smell, the puny recoil, the rush of shooting stuff. it's wonderful to have a family hooked on making smoke and noise, as well as little holes in stuff.
i am thinking of getting her a rifle of her own, but my big .50 flinter is too heavy for her to shoot all day. any ideas on what i could get that would be light, accurate, ergonomic, but still has some knockdown power to blow the crap out of stuff?
~Levi
on a side note, i think i might have gotten my mother hooked on blackpowder shooting as well. as i mentioned before, my dad is really hooked on blackpowder. I'm hopelessly addicted, and my mother seems to really like it. she went shooting black powder for her first time today, and had a blast! (no pun intended) she shot my NAA super companion outfitted with my homemade rear sight and my Frontier flintlock rifle. she LOVED it. the smell, the puny recoil, the rush of shooting stuff. it's wonderful to have a family hooked on making smoke and noise, as well as little holes in stuff.
i am thinking of getting her a rifle of her own, but my big .50 flinter is too heavy for her to shoot all day. any ideas on what i could get that would be light, accurate, ergonomic, but still has some knockdown power to blow the crap out of stuff?
~Levi