Loading...
Your Cart ()
Close Panel
Traditions™ St. Louis Hawken Rifle Kit
Looking for a challenge? Try out a blackpowder kit!
This handy kit contains everything you need to build your own blackpowder rifle. .50 caliber, 28'' octagonal barrel with a hooked breech; 1 in 48'' rate of twist. Select hardwood stock with brass trigger; fixed sight. Weight: 7 lbs. Overall length: 49''.
Looking for a challenge? Try out a blackpowder kit!
This handy kit contains everything you need to build your own blackpowder rifle. .50 caliber, 28'' octagonal barrel with a hooked breech; 1 in 48'' rate of twist. Select hardwood stock with brass trigger; fixed sight. Weight: 7 lbs. Overall length: 49''.
5 Questions | 7 Answers
Outdoor Answers
Get help about this item from fellow customers.
Ask your questions. Share your answers.
Expand All
Collapse All
(read all my Q&A)
Details:
Pertaining to the double set trigger mechanism. Inquiring whether the primary trigger must be pulled to engage the secondary trigger.Answers
A:
Yes. The primary trigger must be pulled to engage the secondary trigger.Answers
A:
No, you will have to blue the barrel. I had good luck with the cold-blueing method. Make sure to get ~all~ the finger oil, dirt, smudges, etc. off the barrel before you blue it. (I left a bit of thumb-print that is now lightly "blued" into my barrel *grin*). I also found getting a good dark coverage took a little longer than the blueing instructions said.
A:
noA:
on most kits the staining of the stock and barrel blueing is a do it yourself project that is why it is sold as a kit that way the consumer has a better understanding of how their gun works and great sense of accomplishmentAnswers
A:
yes, I shoot both all the time. for balls, I use a .010 patch and .490 ball, and I am able to shoot one hole groups @ 50yards. Sabots, I buy the 45calber sabots, and I load mine with 300gr 45 pistol bullets. I have not group tested this load because I sighted it in off hand at a paint can, but I have killed two hogs with this load.A:
on this one i have heard some people useing sabots but mini balls are always fun and the safer optionAnswers
A:
On Traditions web site they did have a listing for left-handed versions of some of their kits.1 of 1
Get help about this item from fellow customers.
Ask your questions. Share your answers.
5 Questions | 7 Answers
1 of 1
Customer Service
Live Assistance:
Daily 7am-10pm Central Time
Daily 7am-10pm Central Time
- 1-800-227-7776
- Contact Us
- Reward Points
- Gift Cards
Prices shown are in U.S. funds
All pages © 2006 - 2012 BPS Direct, L.L.C. All rights reserved.