Re: MtMan-List: Cabelas Flintlock -- Historically Accurate?

[hawknest4@juno.com (michael pierce)]

concure with your post jim---have to sometime remember some of the list
dont know what a good rifle gun is----I shoot a original and she dran
sure makes meat and is always dependable---END OF SUBJECT----
HAWK
MICHAEL PIERCE
1-813-771-1815
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:24:00 -0600 Jim Colburn <jc60714@navix.net>
writes:
>Washtahay-
>
>someone  wrote:
>>If a Hawken style shines for you, Lyman's Great Plains Rifle is about 
>the
>best
>>of the inexpensive guns out there.  It is a very close copy of an 
>original
>>Hawken and shoots darn well.
>	Horse apples!  Show me the Hawken that the Lyman Great Plains 
>Rifle is a
>"very close copy of".  It ain't, and saying it is, or wishful 
>thinking,
>doesn't make it so.  
>
>and someone else wrote (apparently in reference to "Cabelas 
>flintlock":
>>It's actually a copy of one of the originals. 
>	One of the original WHAT?  One of those damn cheap misbegotten 
>worthless
>copies of the T/C Hawken made in Italy back in the '70s?  An Ultra-HI
>"Minuteman Rifle"?  I guess you can say ANYTHING is a copy-but do you 
>want
>to buy the "copy" of Ashley's signature I just did on the notepad by 
>my
>computer?   Is anyone really going to think that its a particularly 
>GOOD
>copy, when if you look you can plainly see I wrote "Willyum Hank 
>Ashly"? 
>	I get so damn tired of pussy-footing around to avoid hurting 
>someone's
>feelings in Re: their rifles, so I ain't gonna do it any more.  Folks, 
>if I
>attack your gun, it ain't personal.  
>  
>	Frankly, Cabelas gun isn't particularly authentic in 
>appearance.  It isn't
>particularly well made, in comparison to a number of other weapons
>around-Lyman's GPR and the T/C Hawken to name two.  Neither of those 
>is
>particularly authentic in appearance either-and anyone who really 
>thinks so
>is demonstrating his or her ignorance-but I don't question the safety 
>of
>them.  Their locks don't let go, tumbler notches creeping like both of 
>the
>Cabelas flinters I have seen (and those were showroom models AT 
>Cabelas!).
>I am particularly fearful of newbies with self-firing rifles!
>
>>IMHO, the frizzen
>>spring on the flinters I've seen is too stiff, but that's easily
>>corrected. 
>	Mebbeso, if you know what you are doing.  How many greenhorns 
>do?  And
>after they fix the feather spring, do they know how to re-harden the
>frizzen?  Re-cut the tumbler notches?  DO THEY KNOW ENOUGH TO TELL 
>WHEN THE
>LOCK IS TOO WORN TO BE SAFE?????
>
>>Haven't priced them via Shotgun News recently, but you
>>used to be able (6-12 months ago) to get the flint kit for around 
>$230
>>as I recall. 
>	Whoopee.  If the potential owner would pick up a part-time job 
>and wait
>til he had worked 40 hours at minimum wage, he could have gotten a 
>decent
>gun.  
>	
>>Good shooter, and much more authentic than anything else
>>I can think of in their price range.
>	How 'bout a rock?  Cheap.  Authentic.  And it'll be functional 
>a long time
>after that (&%%&*&$^% is thrown away.
>LongWalker c. du B.
>
>
>
>
>

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