Just Joined TAPS

[RattlesnakeJack]

Howdy Friends:

I have just sent my information to Caleb with a request that he add me to the membership list.  I see a number of shooting acquaintances on the list already!

As some of you may know, after years of dedicated black powder shooting with both muzzle-loaders and cartridge guns, I switched into CAS .... in which I strayed from the Light and shot smokeless loads almost exclusively for quite a while.  Even disposed of most of my muzzle-loaders and C&B revolvers .....

Of late, however .... largely as a result of my increasing involvement in the Grand Army of the Frontier .... I have been rediscovering the Joys of the Holy Black, and have been re-acquiring more black firearms which fit into the TAPS time-frame and "approved list". 

As some of you may have noted from recent posts on the Spencer Forum and The Barracks, I recently acquired a reproduction Spencer (rifle, not carbine) in .56-.50 and certainly hope to have some fun with it.  More recently (just this week, in fact) I received the first muzzle-loader I have purchased for quite a few years ....



It is a .62 cal. Hawken-style rifle I bought from a friend in Northern BC.  I suspect it was 'too big" for him (he isn't quite my size) .... but for me it holds like a dream.  I got it along with a .600 Lyman round ball mould for a price I simply couldn't refuse.  It was second-hand to him and he didn't know a whole lot about it.  The barrel is stamped "Adcock" .... a well-respected barrel-maker, I gather.  It appears to me that the rifle was most likely put together with Track of the Wolf components .... 









I'm thinkin' it will go very well with the bison powder horn I made back in my "buckskinning" days ....

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Nice rifle Grant;  Does it have any mention of "Fraser River Hawken." or "Taylor made"?

[RattlesnakeJack]

No external markings at all, other than "Adcock" on the top barrel flat.  Haven't gotten around to pulling the lock to see if that is marked internally .....

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

This is all Mr. Google told me about Adcock;

http://rockislandauction.com/viewitem/aid/56/lid/657

[RattlesnakeJack]

Yes, I had Googled for information, with little success .... I did, however, did come up with a couple of references on ML forums and such which implied that his barrels were quite highly regarded.  There seems to be nothing current, so I assume he is no longer active.

[Tascosa Joe]

Welcome to TAPS.  RJ that is a fine looking Hawken style rifle.