Halfstock .50 caliber rifle -- SOLD

[mongrel]

This one doesn't qualify as a CVA or any other brand-name gun. It's built around a used 28" CVA Hawken barrel, with CVA Hawken hardware, but the lock is made of aftermarket non-CVA internals installed to a plate I fabricated. The mainspring is the hooked percussion type and is very strong. Trigger pull is a little on the heavy side (compared to set triggers) but very crisp. You'd have to be working at it to pull off an AD, even with gloves or cold fingers, and as hard as the hammer falls you don't need to worry about a cap ever not busting. The stock's plain walnut, considerably slimmer and with more attention to details like the lock and sideplate panels and the cheekpiece, than on the inexpensive factory guns. I have a starting bid price of $165 plus $20 shipping, on GunBroker, but if a forum member speaks for it before anyone bids the price is $175 shipped to the buyer's door.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=209007930

[Red Badger]

Mike is this one still for sale?  How much does she weigh - thinking of a new rifle for Bulldog Lady....

[mongrel]

Dixie Gun Works describes the Traditions Hawken as weighing 7 1/2 pounds. Since this rifle is made with pretty much the same components, especially the 28" x 15/16" .50 caliber barrel, but a considerably less bulky stock, I'd guesstimate about 7 pounds.

Got three "watchers" on it, over on GunBroker, but generally what people are "watching" for is the price to go down....

[Micanopy]

Sounds like one heck of a deal to me.

[mongrel]

I modified my description of the trigger pull just a little, both in the auction and here. To my way of thinking, having learned very young how to squeeze a trigger, I don't consider the pull on this gun heavy at all. I have learned, though, that to BP and benchrest shooters, accustomed to set/hair triggers that go off without any conscious awareness of having touched them, any pull that measures in pounds instead of ounces is heavy.