A little Hawken work

[FrontierGander]

I picked this up many many months ago and did a little more work on it yesterday. This is an ultra rare factory walnut stock from the early 80's during their first few years. CVA pretty much used beechwood, BUT, those early years, they had a limited supply of walnut , and I got super lucky and found one in great shape and decided to talk my time and restore it. I've already browned the 50cal barrel with Laurel mountain forge. I put a nice thick scale on it to cut the glare. A medium height german silver front sight, bedded the trigger and tang. I'll do some polishing on the lock and triggers for a clean crisp break.

Still have to file the nose cap, but with temps being in the ZERO range this week and -15 and night... I'll set it off to the side for a while until it warms up.





Have to remove the butt plate and debur it later down the road.

 

[HuntInWild88]

Looks great!! With those Temps you sound like your from my neck of the woods.

 

[FrontierGander]

Eastern Colorado. Just hope the wind doesn't kick up, otherwise we're looking at a wind chill of -40

 

[FrontierGander]

Just a teaser... it's finished.

 

[slvrslngr]

Looks great! Let’s see some more pics.

 

[Wrench]

How's it twisted? I have been playing with a tc hawken and let me say that I'm now hooked on side locks.

 

[HighUintas]

Looks good. I want to see some shooting results!

 

[RS_Non-Res]

Fit and finish is tight! Nice blanket too. I need to get back up to the trading post in Ely.