<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">. To me, it doesn't look at all like a "Hawken" but it was<BR>
According to Charles Hanson in his book "The Plains Rifle", the Hawkin Brothers did upgrades to existing rifles built by other gun makers. Upgrades usually included reboring, re-rifling & shortening the barrel to Hawkin specs. Of course, they stamped such barrels with their marks to indicate they'd done the upgrade. Perhaps this is an example?<BR>