I have fourHawken-type rifles. Two of these were made for me by a retired postman in Indianapolis IN, the late Virgil Hartley, using barrels made by the late William (Bill) Large. These two are .45 and .50 caliber halfstock caplocks, 32" long barrels, with 1/72" twist rifling in each barrel.

Both these are extremely accurate with round balls, and also shoot Maxiballs quite well. I have the .50 set up to use an aperture rear sight or a scope, as desired. The .45 is equipped with open, aperture, and scope sights.

Another is a "Jedediah Smith Commemorative Santa Fe Hawken of ".54" caliber which is IDENTICAL IN EVERY WAY to the rifle Jedediah Smith was carrying when the Comanches killed him on ther Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail in 1831, and sold his guns to the Mexicans in Santa Fe. It is rifled 1/60", and the original rifle, which was used for the pattern for this gun, is in a museum in Santa Fe this very day! I have never shot anything but a .530" PRB in it, and it shoots better than I can aim it with those open sights!

The other one is a .577" caliber, 36" barreled fullstock flintlock that I made myself using a 1" across-the-flats barrel from theGreen River Rifle Works in Roosevelt UT. It also shoots PRB or a 570-grain .575" Minie ball extremely well with nothing but iron sights. It is also rifled 1/60". My standard load in this gun is 120 grains of FFg with either the PRB or the Minie. Kicks like hell with that Minie!