This Sporterized Hawken Carbine Rifle is short, light and has a bore big enough for use on heavy game, just like its predecessors. It features high-luster bluing, color case-hardened locks and select walnut stocks. Rifles are 38-1/2" overall and weigh 6-3/4 lbs. Twist is 1 in 24" barrel length is 21".
Right-hand only. Caliber: .50 or .54.
The carbine is very well made and shoots great the only thing I see that is a (neg) are the rear sight and the ramrod.Other than that its well worth the money in every way.
Ordered the Hawken Carbine over the phone - arrived three days later. Beautiful fit and finish out of the box. Excellent two stage trigger with about one pound let off. Fired five CCI magnum caps to check function - all went without incident. Loaded Hornady 240 grain sabot with 70 grains Triple Seven and got 1600 fps on the chrono. Excellent accuracy out of this rifle to 200 yards with saboted rounds - thats the extent of my range. Did try a triple seven pellet and got a fail to ignite. Some powder in the flash hole under the nipple got it to go but will forego the pellets since the FF triple seven seems to work great. Very easy clean up also - just water and patches and some WD to clear the water away. Only gripe is that cheesy rear sight assembly - will have to replace that, but still. . . Great buy for the money - lovely to look at and even more fun to shoot. This one is a Home Run Cabela's!!
I like the short barrel,light weight. I installed Williams sights. The Carbine shoots great with .54 cal. Maxiballs & 100 grains of 2f black powder. At 50 yds it went thru 12" of wood. Looking forward to deer season.
I have been using the .54 cal carbine for a couple years now. I've heard the rear sight stories, but i've never used the original sights. My 55 year old eyes need all the help they can get. The Williams fire sights are the berries for this little gem. I also had my doubts with the quick twist that it would shoot the 425 gr. hornady great plains bullet I'm so fond of. But to my relief, with 100-105 gr. of loose 777, I could not ask for better accuracy. The heavy Cabela's sabots work really well, too. Perfect timber and brush gun here in West Virginia where I live. Make yourself a good solid ramrod. 777 in the chrome bore makes for super easy clean-up and multiple shots are a breeze. I pick it up to hunt with over my Lyman's and my Pedersoli every time. In 30+ years of blackpowder, Ive not enjoyed a rifle more.