Hey All,
Brand new to muzzle loading subjects after I was presented with a beautiful muzzle loader someone wanted to get rid of. Clean beautiful octagonal barrel with a LEFT side hammer, which is really what caught my eye. After the hand over, looked and found the following
The barrel is lightly stamped
Navy Arms CO, Ridgefield, NJ U.S.A (right side of the rear sight, I called the modern Navy Arms Inc and got the story about the old Navy Arms CO.)
50 CAL (left side, under rear sight, fancier font)
04344 (stamped in barrel to the rear closer to hammer"
barrel, muzzle end to middle of hammer 27"
I'm guessing from the trigger guard that this is a Hawkins, but as far as purchase date or model run, left hand hammer, ext, no idea. Anyone that can help?
Also, my father built a hawkins (not Navy Arms) in the 1970's and had it hanging in the house for the rest of his life. Only shot it a few times, I was wondering if anyone had information on the load and round this was built for? I saw on here somewhere that these tend to crack the stock if loaded with too much powder. Any copies of manuals out there?
Any information would help out in the story.
Thank You
Brand new to muzzle loading subjects after I was presented with a beautiful muzzle loader someone wanted to get rid of. Clean beautiful octagonal barrel with a LEFT side hammer, which is really what caught my eye. After the hand over, looked and found the following
The barrel is lightly stamped
Navy Arms CO, Ridgefield, NJ U.S.A (right side of the rear sight, I called the modern Navy Arms Inc and got the story about the old Navy Arms CO.)
50 CAL (left side, under rear sight, fancier font)
04344 (stamped in barrel to the rear closer to hammer"
barrel, muzzle end to middle of hammer 27"
I'm guessing from the trigger guard that this is a Hawkins, but as far as purchase date or model run, left hand hammer, ext, no idea. Anyone that can help?
Also, my father built a hawkins (not Navy Arms) in the 1970's and had it hanging in the house for the rest of his life. Only shot it a few times, I was wondering if anyone had information on the load and round this was built for? I saw on here somewhere that these tend to crack the stock if loaded with too much powder. Any copies of manuals out there?
Any information would help out in the story.
Thank You