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The Hawken Halfstock How-To Part 1 | Muzzle Blasts Excerpt

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The Hawken Halfstock How-To Part 1 | Muzzle Blasts Excerpt

“More complex than our flint longrifle parts kits, a Hawken rifle is not recommended as a first gun-making project unless you have machinist’s skills, or an experienced mentor to guide your work.” (Catalog # 18, Track of the Wolf, Inc.)

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 9 Final Assembly

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 9 Final Assembly

We’re finally ready to do our final assembly on this Traditions St. Louis Hawken Kit. We’ve got all of our parts treated, our stock is ready to go, and it’s time to see what it looks like all together!

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 8: Staining, Oiling and Finishing the Stock

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 8: Staining, Oiling and Finishing the Stock

With our hardware finished, we’re ready to move onto finishing out stock. In the previous parts of this series, we’ve done a lot to this stock to make it fit and feel right, but the stain and oiling is going to be the most dramatic change, so buckle up and let’s get to it.

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 7: Bluing your Barrel

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 7: Bluing your Barrel

Next on our list here is bluing the barrel, barrel rib, tang, and any other “white” iron pieces like screwheads. First though we are going to soak a cotton ball in some rubbing alcohol and wipe down all the pieces we want to blue. This is going to clean off any dust or dirt from the shop, but also remove any skin oils or other oils that may be on the parts to give us our best shot at an even blued finish.

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 6: Preparing your Stock for Stain

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 6: Preparing your Stock for Stain

When it comes to your stock finish, a lot of the process comes down to personal choice. For my kit, I’m going to do a little sanding, some whiskering, some scraping, and some burnishing. To start though, we’re going to get a nice even surface on the stock with some sandpaper.

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ADA Rifle Project Update, November 2020

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Our American with Disabilities Act project is working hard towards building a rifle and complete set of accoutrements to raise money for building ADA compliant restrooms at the Walter Cline range. Mike Miller, Dennis Priddy, Larry Horrigan, Dick Miller, John Kleihege, Bart Copenhaver, Bill Hoover and I are building the rifle. The Honorable Company of Horners is making a powder horn, Jeff Luke is making a shooting bag, Ron Lowell is crafting a banded priming horn, Larry Callahan is hand making a ball mold and a tow worm, John Cummings is forging one of his signature knives. Look to Muzzle Blasts and the NMLRA. org website for details on how you can purchase tickets to win this once in a lifetime prize.

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 2 | The tools you'll need

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 2 | The tools you'll need

In this video, we walk you through all the tools you’ll need to build this kit. This video was made after the kit was finished so we could accurately show you all the tools used. The basic list provided by Traditions is enough to get started, but we found there are some more tools that can really help the building process of one of these kits.