Gallery
Welcome to my new gallery page. If you have a nice picture of game you have taken, a nice target, or a display you are proud of using one of my rifles please forward the pictures and I will be happy to post on the gallery page.
Mr. Kirk Martin of Texas with a fine Colorado bull elk taken with one shot from his .58 cal. Hawken:
A fine deer taken with black powder and patched round ball; rifle is very nice custom Hawken by Ted Trueblood. It just shows that these 150 year old rifle designs are still very capable of filling the freezer.
Your's truly with a Texas buffalo taken with my 45-110 Sharps; not a Hawken but still used black powder and a cast lead paper patched bullet. One shot at a measured 164 yards. We all know that the Hawken made the west safe for the Sharps!
One of the really nice things about living in a rural area is we have some really neat neighbors!
A pair to draw to. A very early J&S fullstock flinter style that may be close to what the brothers would have built and a later .58 cal. percussion halfstock; both went to enthusiasts in Virginia. The percussion rifle was used to win the prestigous "Bluejacket" event at the 2011 Southeastern Living History Rendezvous held in North Carolina (his first rendezvous!) Nice Shooting!
A very interesting rifle found in a cave in Texas in the 1920's. Note the "Hawken" type features, namely the trigger guard and oval escutchens, made in Soligan, Germany, probably in the 1850's. Just goes to show that then, as now, good ideas were incorporated and copied by other makers.
New neighbor.
First time out with his new fullstock .54, a pleased new owner took third place honors on a trail walk competition. Nice shooting!
Brant,
Hope you had a good Christmas and New Year. Just now getting around to sending you a pic of the elk I shot this year. I knew it was a long shot and almost didn't take it. It was getting late afternoon and the winds were switching around and the herd would soon smell us if I didn't shoot. I held just a little high behind the right shoulder and squeezed it off. I didn't realize it was 178 yards until we verified it with a range finder after the shot. You build a heck of a rifle and I'm proud to own one. By the way, I've named this rifle "Ol' Lucky".
Respectfully,
Kirk D. Martin
Note: Rifle is .58 caliber; load was 110-grain Swiss 1.5F blackpowder with patched round ball.
A fine deer taken with black powder and patched round ball; rifle is very nice custom Hawken by Ted Trueblood. It just shows that these 150 year old rifle designs are still very capable of filling the freezer.
Your's truly with a Texas buffalo taken with my 45-110 Sharps; not a Hawken but still used black powder and a cast lead paper patched bullet. One shot at a measured 164 yards. We all know that the Hawken made the west safe for the Sharps!
One of the really nice things about living in a rural area is we have some really neat neighbors!
A pair to draw to. A very early J&S fullstock flinter style that may be close to what the brothers would have built and a later .58 cal. percussion halfstock; both went to enthusiasts in Virginia. The percussion rifle was used to win the prestigous "Bluejacket" event at the 2011 Southeastern Living History Rendezvous held in North Carolina (his first rendezvous!) Nice Shooting!
A very interesting rifle found in a cave in Texas in the 1920's. Note the "Hawken" type features, namely the trigger guard and oval escutchens, made in Soligan, Germany, probably in the 1850's. Just goes to show that then, as now, good ideas were incorporated and copied by other makers.
New neighbor.
First time out with his new fullstock .54, a pleased new owner took third place honors on a trail walk competition. Nice shooting!
Brant,
Hope you had a good Christmas and New Year. Just now getting around to sending you a pic of the elk I shot this year. I knew it was a long shot and almost didn't take it. It was getting late afternoon and the winds were switching around and the herd would soon smell us if I didn't shoot. I held just a little high behind the right shoulder and squeezed it off. I didn't realize it was 178 yards until we verified it with a range finder after the shot. You build a heck of a rifle and I'm proud to own one. By the way, I've named this rifle "Ol' Lucky".
Respectfully,
Kirk D. Martin
Note: Rifle is .58 caliber; load was 110-grain Swiss 1.5F blackpowder with patched round ball.