.50 caliber halfstock rifle

[mongrel]

I have this one listed on gunBroker with a starting bid of $275, with $20 additional shipping. Any member here can speak for it, assuming no bids placed, at a price of $285, shipped to your door.

The rifle is built around a used 27 1/2" x 1" CVA Hawken barrel, .50 caliber with 1-48" twist. The bore is good and useable but far from perfect. Sights are fixed. The lock is a CVA on a modified plate, tripped by a single trigger. The steel hardware is fire-blued, the barrel and underrib are cold-blued, and the walnut stock has been finished with tung oil. Length of pull is 13 1/2", about right for the average-sized adult who somehow didn't make it to what the makers of factory rifles consider a "normal" height of six-plus feet. Everything about this gun is plain and solid -- no frills, nothing fancy in any way, just a rifle that will hang in there with you, out hunting or just casual shooting.

[mongrel]

Decided to keep this'n to hunt deer with, this fall. Thanks for looking....

[texasranger]

Do not blame you, nice looking rifle.

[pilgrim]

            And all this time I assumed YOU where an Early Lancaster Flintlock  Rifleman.          Oh well we all Degress as we get OLDER.   

[mongrel]

Deer season is in three months, this gun is ready, my pre-Lancaster flinter isn't and won't be. Plus being a (roughly) .48 caliber the flinter won't be one I can just take out with a box of balls and work up an accurate load for -- it'll probably take some fiddlin' and figurin'. No time. Plus, this little rifle fits me and feels right. It's like a stray dog you might pick up and find you like so much you just have to keep it.

Besides, this is a LATE Lancaster or at least eastern Pennsylvania, and I've never made any bones about liking these percussion trade rifles just as well as their flintlock great-granddaddies....

[pilgrim]

     

[Hawken50]

  Yep kinda like when Mongrel wandered into camp here.Kinda fleabitten,ugly,blood dripping from his fangs.We just had to keep the little rascal.

[mongrel]

Well, that and the fact that so far no one has dared come close enough to kick me out. Of course that may be the smell as much as how fearsome I look....