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Special Interests - Groups & Societies => The American Plainsmen Society => Topic started by: RattlesnakeJack on September 08, 2012, 10:25:31 PM
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Howdy Friends:
I have just sent my information to Caleb with a request that he add me to the membership list. I see a number of shooting acquaintances on the list already!
As some of you may know, after years of dedicated black powder shooting with both muzzle-loaders and cartridge guns, I switched into CAS .... in which I strayed from the Light and shot smokeless loads almost exclusively for quite a while. Even disposed of most of my muzzle-loaders and C&B revolvers .....
Of late, however .... largely as a result of my increasing involvement in the Grand Army of the Frontier .... I have been rediscovering the Joys of the Holy Black, and have been re-acquiring more black firearms which fit into the TAPS time-frame and "approved list".
As some of you may have noted from recent posts on the Spencer Forum and The Barracks, I recently acquired a reproduction Spencer (rifle, not carbine) in .56-.50 and certainly hope to have some fun with it. More recently (just this week, in fact) I received the first muzzle-loader I have purchased for quite a few years ....
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i219/GrantRCanada/Guns%20Misc/Hawken001.jpg)
It is a .62 cal. Hawken-style rifle I bought from a friend in Northern BC. I suspect it was 'too big" for him (he isn't quite my size) .... but for me it holds like a dream. I got it along with a .600 Lyman round ball mould for a price I simply couldn't refuse. It was second-hand to him and he didn't know a whole lot about it. The barrel is stamped "Adcock" .... a well-respected barrel-maker, I gather. It appears to me that the rifle was most likely put together with Track of the Wolf components ....
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i219/GrantRCanada/Guns%20Misc/Hawken002.jpg)
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i219/GrantRCanada/Guns%20Misc/Hawken003.jpg)
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i219/GrantRCanada/Guns%20Misc/Hawken004.jpg)
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i219/GrantRCanada/Guns%20Misc/Hawken005.jpg)
I'm thinkin' it will go very well with the bison powder horn I made back in my "buckskinning" days ....
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i219/GrantRCanada/Guns%20Misc/bisonhorn.jpg)
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Nice rifle Grant; Does it have any mention of "Fraser River Hawken." or "Taylor made"?
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No external markings at all, other than "Adcock" on the top barrel flat. Haven't gotten around to pulling the lock to see if that is marked internally .....
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This is all Mr. Google told me about Adcock;
http://rockislandauction.com/viewitem/aid/56/lid/657
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Yes, I had Googled for information, with little success .... I did, however, did come up with a couple of references on ML forums and such which implied that his barrels were quite highly regarded. There seems to be nothing current, so I assume he is no longer active.
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Welcome to TAPS. RJ that is a fine looking Hawken style rifle.