Originally Posted by
nchawkeye
That 1 1/8 tapered to 1 inch barrel will be pretty heavy....I built a .54 back in the 80s before swamped barrels became popular and it's 1 1/16 ro 15/16s...Mine is 38 inches long and it's not too bad but I've often wished I had stuck to my guns on a swamped barrel...
I know you'd prefer a Hawken style but you can get a .54 from Jim Chambers in his Isaac Haines gun...That would make a nice, light weight hunting rifle...
I thought about a long rifle. My plans are to join up with the AMM, and they have a good active Colorado group here. In looking at all the pictures they posted they all seem to use long guns. Which I read was the majority of what the mountain man used.
It's so hard for me to get away from the Hawken. I love the gun, and it is PC for some MM. If you look at the Kit Carson gun Don makes it comes with a 31" - 34" barrel. The real Kit Carson was 31". That shouldn't be too heavy.
I do know i'll need a flint to be accepted with the AMM. It seems to be all they use. Which wouldn't be PC for the later Hawkens.
Everything is riding on being accepted with the AMM. On my own i'll go Hawken. With AMM i'll go long rifle in a flint. We'll see how it pans out.