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2011年11月8日 · A mountain man was more likely to be carrying an American Long Rifle than a Hawkin's half stock. In a rather in-depth article by Steve Garby in the "American Tradition" magazine he says, "The mistake typically made is that Hawken rifles were the preffered or even commonly used firearm in the early days of the western fur trade.
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2003年10月4日 · Hawken's being two of them. Some makers offered either. The rifle being described of Hawken manufacture with brass furniture and a buffalo on the buttrap was more than likely a early fullstock rifle that looked like the rifles the Hawkens were making in the east before they came to St. Louis, and most likely still built a few in St' Louis.
What calibers did they use in the mountain man era?
2014年8月28日 · Merriweather Lewis went west with 54 caliber rifles and 69 caliber muskets with the attached regular military. Clark did bring along his made by Small rifle that carried 100 balls to the pound or 36 caliber. During the mountain man era, hunters and trappers may have started west with smaller calibers from the Eastern Woodlands.
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2007年11月25日 · If you own a strong barreled percussion rifle, like the T/C Hawken, or Renegade, Or the Lyman Great Plains Rifle, they can easily handle 70 grains of powder, and more, and with some of the faster ROT rifled barrels, the will fire heavy conicals just as well as the Black Powder Cartridges of the mid 19th century did.
1832 Original Hawken light mountain rifle. Opinions welcome …
2021年1月14日 · Page 69 The Hawken Rifle: its place in history: It was predominant and possibly the earliest percussion rifle used by the mountain man. Our’s has this damage. Crescent and heal as two pieces are held together with a rivet and brass and fluxed. Very early construction.. Page 92 Hawken rifles the mountain man’s choice. Our’s has this fluxing.
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2023年1月23日 · The mountain men of old used what they could get, not necessarily what they wanted. Most would have wanted a Hawken... the original Hawken, not the ones made by T/C and others. The Jonathan Browning Mountain Rifle referenced above is allegedly a "copy" of a rifle supposedly once owned by Jim Bridger.
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2023年1月23日 · The Mountain Rifle was the epitome of CVA's design and engineering. It's the best-balanced rifle I've ever put to my shoulder. The earlier models had barrels marked "Made In USA" which purportedly were from Douglas.
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2004年5月1日 · 2. Maximillian- double barrel, side by side percussion shotgun, but he wasn't a mountain man. 3. Pattie page 9, he had a rifle for guard duty, the other man a musket, probably a fusil but obviously not a double barrel shotgun. 4. Meek, page 171, shot one Indian and then raised gun to fire again- must have been a swivel or double barrel shotgun. 5.
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2015年9月25日 · Has anyone else watched The Sportsmen's Channel hunting show "Sasquatch - Mountain Man?" Finally a hunting show on TV devoted to traditional methods. It follows a gentleman by the name of Laramie Miller who hunts with longbows and a percussion Hawken w/pathed roundball. In the first show...
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2012年9月14日 · I almost beat you to it. But I typed in too much info :hatsoff: Dan