ThomasT
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I received my new purchase from the seller on GB today. This rifle is a 50 caliber made by Investarms. It looks for all the world to be a Cabelas Hawken. It has the same trademark patch box and all the same features. It is not marked Cabelas. Its not marked anything for any brand. Just the normal barrel markings.
I know Investarms has made this same gun for many different sellers. IIRC Charles Daly, Kassnar and a couple of others I fail to remember. Now to the part that makes this gun unique and why I bought it.
The seller listed it as having a 1/60 twist instead of the usual 1/48 twist. So I measured it and sure enough that seems to be correct. I makes almost 1/2 of a rotation in the 28" of barrel I can measure. This is the same as the Great Plains rifle everyone likes for a RB shooter. One thing the seller didn't catch was the barrel lands. I have 3 other Investarms rifles, a 54 Cabelas Hawken, A lyman GP rifle and a Lyman 50 caliber Trade rifle flint lock. All 3 of these guns have five land and groove barrels. This new gun has a 6 groove barrel.
So this gun should shoot RB loads just as well as my Lyman GP rifle and do it in a shorter, lighter package. And so far as I can tell this rifle has never been fired. If it was ever fired it wasn't much and it was cleaned very well. But I can find no blast marks on the bolster, nipple or hammer. And of course the barrel is perfectly clean. Any wild guesses or theories on who this gun was made for?
I know Investarms has made this same gun for many different sellers. IIRC Charles Daly, Kassnar and a couple of others I fail to remember. Now to the part that makes this gun unique and why I bought it.
The seller listed it as having a 1/60 twist instead of the usual 1/48 twist. So I measured it and sure enough that seems to be correct. I makes almost 1/2 of a rotation in the 28" of barrel I can measure. This is the same as the Great Plains rifle everyone likes for a RB shooter. One thing the seller didn't catch was the barrel lands. I have 3 other Investarms rifles, a 54 Cabelas Hawken, A lyman GP rifle and a Lyman 50 caliber Trade rifle flint lock. All 3 of these guns have five land and groove barrels. This new gun has a 6 groove barrel.
So this gun should shoot RB loads just as well as my Lyman GP rifle and do it in a shorter, lighter package. And so far as I can tell this rifle has never been fired. If it was ever fired it wasn't much and it was cleaned very well. But I can find no blast marks on the bolster, nipple or hammer. And of course the barrel is perfectly clean. Any wild guesses or theories on who this gun was made for?