Dic will breech the barrel if you pay for it . Otherwise the barrels come threaded and you have to set the breech .
you also can get what ever barrel you want all you have to do is ask Dic .
Here is a Pecatonica Hawken. She carries a 39 inch , 54 cal C swamp barrel
The under rib was a whoooole lot of fun to get fit correctly so as to not be bowed to the barrel .
here is the ballance prior to adding the underrib . which actualy didnt change things all that much
and no its not touching the table
also this is one of Dics Grade 2 stocks .
nice figure and it was nice hard maple
I it should be noted that when I built this I also left the mortises alittle large and turned down the butt plat at the toe along with adding the swamped barrel so as to make it more along the lines of one of Gustuvus Erichson’s guns instead of a true Hawkens .
the fella i built it for also wanted one of those pinapple patch boxs . so i had to add that .
past that , if a person wanted to recreat a hawkens . the pecatoncia hawkens IMO would be a very good choice as offered . even better with a tapered barrel
