Traditions Woodsman Hawken

[FrontierGander]

Got her in a few days ago! Yesterday I finally got to drop flint to frizzen and enjoyed every shot with her! I honestly didn't expect to shoot this well. I have a Traditions Kentucky flinter but I am not really into shooting flints that much until I got this hawken. It just fits me better.

2 things I would change on it is the front bead sight and adjust the trigger pull a touch. Right now the round front sight is hard on my eye and the trigger is around 4 - 4.5lbs which is fine for a hunting rifle I agree, I am not just used to one that "heavy".

I am right where I want to be at 50 yards which I did all my shooting from.

I ran 16 shots of Shoot Out through her to smooth out any unknowns and then switched over to my hunting lube.
Factory bore after cleaning it when I first got it,

After using the break in lube,

Started out at 50 yards to see how the new Flintlock would print on paper.

I used 80gr 2fg Goex, 4fg goex in the pan, .490" round ball and both .015 and .020" patches.

I took my first shot, smiled, and knew it would be a good day!

Switched over to a Shoot out patch lube to polish up the bore and remove any unknowns, and took 3 shots and then 2 more for a 5 shot group.

At the very top of the bull eye area are my final shots of the day! They grouped perfectly with my #1 shot with my normal hunting lube. The 4 shots LOW left were me just fiddling around with with pan charges.

The bore of this rifle is beautiful. It loads like like even shot all those shots, I didn't touch the bore once. The wet break in lube though helped keep the fouling down, but still, the hunting lube with thick .020" patches still loaded wonderfully.

I am very happy with the rifle overall.

Fast ignition, consistent spark from the frizzen, balances naturally and the butt plate doesn't cut into your shoulder and cause pain.

 

[Waynzee]

That's some nice shooting and the bore cleaned up real good. I used to have a T/C Hawken that shot like that but my eyes got so's I can't see the front sight. So I had to go with a inline MZL and scope. My brother has a 50 cal. Pedersoli Hawken in a cap lock that is real nice and shoots good. He puts 80 grs. of Pyrodex and patched a round ball down the bore for his best accuracy.

 

[FrontierGander]

shes a shooter! I got to try another cool target out yesterday evening when we drove into oklahoma and a friend took us on a tour of the property.

 

[Waynzee]

Yep, you sure aren't wasting time making meat with your smoke pole there. Thats a good size hog. You take it a patched round ball?

 

[FrontierGander]

Yep, you sure aren't wasting time making meat with your smoke pole there. Thats a good size hog. You take it a patched round ball?

Yep, .490" round ball driven by 80gr 2fg Goex. Shot was 47-50ish yards right though the shoulder.

Busted both front shoulder bones in half. Ball weighed 177grains originally and recovered weight was 169.6 grains.

 

[RMulhern]

You need to reconfigure that round table you shoot off of!