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Re: Black powder elk
Reply #15 - Dec 18th, 2019 at 5:27pm
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Just Jim wrote on Dec 18th, 2019 at 1:29pm:
KFW wrote on Dec 18th, 2019 at 7:05am:
Just Jim
Yes I built the Hawken(and a Dimick) last year. Made the  lock, triggers, forged guard and 2 pc. forged/brazed buttplate, a early style feature. Its as accurate as I could make could make using my ref. material and looking at the originals in Cody/Helena. I did not make the breech snail, as I probably should have, its the typical late style.
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Wow! Impressive, sir! You don't meet many who have made their own triggers, let alone the lock. I raise my cup o' coffee to you!

And I love the story of the Ballard and it's careful preservation. Hard to imagine anyone doing so today. 


This was my Pacific when I first purchased it, and used acetone to remove the varnish covering the caliber. Never knew the caliber until it was revealed under the ugly brown varnish.

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Re: Black powder elk
Reply #16 - Dec 19th, 2019 at 7:29am
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Beautiful bull! I chased Roosevelts Elk one fall in western Washington with my Hawken. In a spike/fork only area all I saw was nice bulls. I can still smell that Olympic Mtn. air. It was like taking power hits of pure oxygen. I did take a nice 4x4 blacktail out there with the Hawken.
  
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Re: Black powder elk
Reply #17 - Dec 23rd, 2019 at 2:33pm
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Congrats on the bull!
  
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