Black Powder shooting

[83nubnEC]

Curious? How many shooters out there who started into muzzle loading from watching Daniel Boone and Jeremiah Johnson started out with a T/C Hawken? I have a feeling there would be very little interest now in flintlock/caplock muzzleloader shooting if it wasn't for the T/C Hawken. I heard they produced close to 3/4 million rifles before Smith and Wesson stopped production! Still have my 54 cal that I built from a kit in 1979 

[Hawg]

Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. My first bp gun was an 1858 Remington in 1969. In 1970 I bought a .45 caliber Kentucky rifle. I don't remember what brand it was, probably CVA. I never could get the thing to spark except once in awhile and it turned me off of flinters for many years. I didn't know what I was doing tho and didn't have anybody to teach me so most of it was probably my fault. After that I bought an Investarms Hawken.

[Mike payne]

I started with tc cap lock 50 Hawken. That was 1974 within a year had a 36 longrifle flintlock never looked back.

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

I bought my first bp rifle, a T/C .50 cal. "Hawken" flintlock, in 1972, when I was on a prisoner escort from Masset, QCI BC, to Vancouver, BC.  I stayed with my Aunt and Uncle in Vancouver, and my Uncle provided me with 50 pounds of pure lad that I cast into round balls, placed in an old hard cased suitcase secured with a leather belt, and flew back up north with me.  To this day, I cannot know how I got away with that incredibly heavy suitcase.  But lots of things were different in those days.  I mounted the aircraft in uniform with my sidearm, and my new rifle, and smoked a pipe on board.  The good old days...

[Leatherbark]

In 1975 I received a CVA Kentucky for Christmas from my wife.  She couldn't afford the finished model, so she was able to buy the $79 kit.  I remember I did a fair job of the Birchwood Casey plum brown but forgot to clean off the steel wool whiskers on the stock and put a coat of Tru-oil on it.  When it dried you could see little pieces of steel wool in the finish LOL.  It looked like Mr. Magoo put it together. All I had was a pocketknife and a sharp screwdriver for a wood chisel and one of those 4-way rasps (which I still have).


Bob

[Daryl]

Just read Taylor's post and had to chuckle. Yes, THOSE were the days. Bought a .50 TC in '73 when I was in Smithers Detachment. Could have sworn Taylor bought his in 1971. Hed already shot some deer with it by the time I got mine.