david58
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My dear bride gave me a rifle for my birthday, my choice. So I had been shopping around a bit, since like all of us we are always looking and drooling.
I have a nice scratch-built full stock Hawken, and have kind of always wanted a nice half-stock. My tastes are way above my ability, so I have to purchase something already built (a half-stock Hawken is tough to build, and I am just not good enough). Several friends have the Santa Fe Hawken, so I was including it on my list. The Rocky Mountain Hawken by Pedersoli is outstanding, but I just cannot part with the required $$$ (retail price starts to rival custom builds).
Last Saturday I stumbled across a SF Hawken, a Jedidiah Smith commemorative (no real difference except it is "Number 416 of a Thousand". I did not know that this rifle was 1" across the flats (so many .54s are 1-1/8, and heavy), and that it has a 15" LOP - still theoretically a bit short for me, but 15" is a whole lot closer than 13-1/2!. Holds NICE. And I learned at the range yesterday that it is a shooter!
I have a nice scratch-built full stock Hawken, and have kind of always wanted a nice half-stock. My tastes are way above my ability, so I have to purchase something already built (a half-stock Hawken is tough to build, and I am just not good enough). Several friends have the Santa Fe Hawken, so I was including it on my list. The Rocky Mountain Hawken by Pedersoli is outstanding, but I just cannot part with the required $$$ (retail price starts to rival custom builds).
Last Saturday I stumbled across a SF Hawken, a Jedidiah Smith commemorative (no real difference except it is "Number 416 of a Thousand". I did not know that this rifle was 1" across the flats (so many .54s are 1-1/8, and heavy), and that it has a 15" LOP - still theoretically a bit short for me, but 15" is a whole lot closer than 13-1/2!. Holds NICE. And I learned at the range yesterday that it is a shooter!
