If you are comfortable with these tasks, you will have no difficulty with this parts set. Assembly of a fullstock Hawken rifle requires the skilled use of a drill press, clean up of the castings, and inletting. While slightly more difficult than a flint longrifle, a fullstock hawken is much easier to assemble than a percussion halfstock Hawken. We offer Colerain barrels for this rifle. Track's fullstock Hawken stock will accept any 1" straight octagon barrel, to build a moderate weight rifle. Our semi-buckhorn rear sight, and silver blade front sight are both correct features. The cheek is angled to recoil away from your face, an ingenious feature found on better rifles. The cheek piece is the earlier square long rifle style, rather than the beaver tail cheek for on later half-stock Hawken rifles. This rifle shown has a additional sideplate and lock bolt added by the builder. ![]() Typically a single lock bolt retains the lock, recessed into the early style tear drop shaped iron sideplate inlay. A ideal feature when trapping far in the wilderness. The long trigger plate, long tang, and two bolts, form a steel reinforced wrist, making the Hawken the strongest Plains rifle in this critical area. The trigger plate is very long, extending through the wrist, accepting two tang bolts from above. The long tang hooked breech plug is fitted with two tang bolts that engage the trigger plate, another correct Hawken feature. The mountain man appreciated ease of maintenance as much as we do, today. The keys are slotted so they may be captured in the stock to prevent loss in the field. Push the three barrel wedge keys past the underlugs, and the barrel will lift and unhook from the tang, instantly, without tools, for easy cleaning after a day of shooting. Stocked in figured tiger stripe maple, this nice rifle is strikingly handsome. Brown, who built the nice rifle shown above. Track's best early fullstock Hawken Rifle parts were selected by the by noted gunmaker J.E. If I had known this I probably would have just kept the original stock.Oh well,thanks again for all the help and I'll let ya'll know what T/C says.Flintlock, with 1" straight octagon barrel up to 42" in lengthīuild Track's Early Hawken fullstock rifle kit, Long story short I finally got a new stock back and now this. ![]() within the company but she assured me that it would be taken care of. She gave me the number for a lady in recieving who did a little research and she found that my stock was sent to the wrong dept. After holding on the phone for at least half an hour,A lady answered and told me there was no record of me having returned the stock. 2 weeks after shipping it to them and I gave them a call just to check on the status of the repair. When I originally sent the first stock back because of a chip behind the tang after the first range session,I waited approx. In the past T/C has always been a great company to deal with but I'm not sure what to expect now that S&W bought them out. ![]() Ya'll raised a good point about me tinkering with it and voiding my warrranty so I'll let you know what T/C does. This is not my only rifle so it's not a big deal if I am without it for a while. Thanks for all the helpful suggestions guys!! Sorry I have not been here the last couple of days,I don't have internet at home,just here at work so I can't be here on the weekends.Taking all the feedback here into consideration I think I am going to call T/C back and return the stock to them again for repair. What do ya'll think ? All help is greatly appreciated!! Am I overthinking this ? Is it okay like it is or should I fix it ? The only 2 ways I can think of to fix it would be to dowel/re-drill the screw holes (which seems like an awful lot of trouble) or to make a thin shim of some sort to put between the tang and the rear of the barrel channel to fill the gap. What I am wondering is if this condition will increase my chances of a cracked stock in the future ? It seems to me that with the tang not being tight against the "meat" of the stock that this would put excess pressure on the two screws during recoil. It appears that the two screw holes where the tang is screwed to the stock were drilled SLIGHTLY too far toward the muzzle which in turn forces the tang forward.The gap is only about the thickness of a credit card and is not noticable unless you're looking for it but that is not my main concern. When the tang is placed into the stock and the 2 screws are tightened the tang is "pushed away" from the rear of the barrel channel so that the rear of the octagon part of the tang is not in contact with the wood at the rear of the barrel channel. I have a newly acquired T/C Hawken stock and I just noticed that the tang is not properly fitted to the stock.
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