My Hawken GRRW .54 Cal.

[Rick Mulhern]

The Hawken arrived today and by golly it's just exactly like the way Track of the Wolf described it....EXCELLENT! The 'fit/finish' is as good as Shiloh Rifles does their work and I especially like the 'cut' of the rifling!

Untitled by Rick Mulhern, on Flickr

Hard to believe that I've had this rifle since 1000 hrs. this morning and didn't shoot it before the day was over but I have been busy doing other things to be able to tend to necessities of checking it out etc.! I had to drill out a cleaning rod and retap it for a seating jag that would fit the .54 caliber bullet, lubing patches with pure olive oil and making a tgt board that will work in my back yard. The north side of my lawn is such that I can shoot 150 yards just adjacent to my homesite and I got that done today! This gives me a chance to shoot without driving up to the range without messing up the roadway after a big rain! It's been fairly cool here today with winds out of the north at up to 25 mph and my 76 year old bones just didn't want to withstand that! Nothing akin to what you guys up north have to face but I just couldn't make myself face those conditions! Tomorrow....Lord willing....I'll see what it will do on the target board! My intention is to leave the ramrod in place on this rifle for now....use another rod to seat the bullet and mark that ramrod to get consistent compression. I did remove the rifle rod and check it out; rather difficult to remove so I suspect I may need to sand the lower end where it fits into the stock for easier removal thereof!