alleyyooper
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- 8210
- Joined
- Dec 26, 2018
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- 640
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- Location
- Michigan.
Christmas morning I find a package under the tree. About 4 feet long 6 inches wide and 2 to 3 inches thick.
I do not know why it was wrapped in christmas paper as I have been a custom to have many of them wrapped in birthday paper also since my birtday was not all that long passed.
My family is a rip and tear family do not save paper to use next year.
So I tear the paper off and see a yellow orangeish color with white. Big TC letters on it.
dig deeper into the package to find a TC hawkins rifle kit. MY first Muzzle loader rifle.
That kept me busy for about a month sanding, polishing, boneing to end up with a fine rifle.
Used that rifle for Michigans ML season for years but also was able to join in with the group my brother belonged to who shoot their ml's at least two days a week and some times more.
Can't even begin to guess how much powder I have burnt in the barrel of the Hawkins, how many balls I sat and cast with my brother for it.
My eyes are older than my teeth and started going bad at roughly age 50. I found I could not shoot the old Hawkins worth a hoot with those Buck horn sights.
I stopped in Ye Old Black Powder Shop Alburn Mi. to see about buying a new smoke pole I could put a scope on. Ended up with a TC plains rifle. The owner brought out about a dozen rifles for me to choose the one that would go home with me.
Boy that sure was a great place to just brows in too.
A TC quick release scope mount, a $5.00 yard sale Weaver K4 fit the bill, I was shooting a smoke pole accrite again.
My brother took his TC hawkin factory assembled to a smith and had it drilled and taped for a scope when his eyes went south.
A nice July day 2002 or 2003 He and I were shooting at a range near his home with some other guys he knew. One asked about my plains rifle as you just don't see or hear of them.
I told about the Plains rifle and mentioned my eye sight is why I wasn't shooting my Hawkins.
Figured that was the end of that till one day a package came to my home from Jolly Old England.
I do not know any one from Jolly Old England so was baffled, open the package and there is a orginal package TC tang mount Peep site.
Kind of funny the guy I had talked to at the range had gotten a Email from his brother asking if he knew any one that could use the Peep Site. He contacted my brother for my address.
I can now again shoot the hawkins and be accrite, thanks to that peep sight.
I had planed on taking it out yesterday as birthday rifle shoot but I got sick Christmas eve morning and did not feel good and still don't today.
The weather is and has been great for late December.
Al
I do not know why it was wrapped in christmas paper as I have been a custom to have many of them wrapped in birthday paper also since my birtday was not all that long passed.
My family is a rip and tear family do not save paper to use next year.
So I tear the paper off and see a yellow orangeish color with white. Big TC letters on it.
dig deeper into the package to find a TC hawkins rifle kit. MY first Muzzle loader rifle.
That kept me busy for about a month sanding, polishing, boneing to end up with a fine rifle.
Used that rifle for Michigans ML season for years but also was able to join in with the group my brother belonged to who shoot their ml's at least two days a week and some times more.
Can't even begin to guess how much powder I have burnt in the barrel of the Hawkins, how many balls I sat and cast with my brother for it.
My eyes are older than my teeth and started going bad at roughly age 50. I found I could not shoot the old Hawkins worth a hoot with those Buck horn sights.
I stopped in Ye Old Black Powder Shop Alburn Mi. to see about buying a new smoke pole I could put a scope on. Ended up with a TC plains rifle. The owner brought out about a dozen rifles for me to choose the one that would go home with me.
Boy that sure was a great place to just brows in too.
A TC quick release scope mount, a $5.00 yard sale Weaver K4 fit the bill, I was shooting a smoke pole accrite again.
My brother took his TC hawkin factory assembled to a smith and had it drilled and taped for a scope when his eyes went south.
A nice July day 2002 or 2003 He and I were shooting at a range near his home with some other guys he knew. One asked about my plains rifle as you just don't see or hear of them.
I told about the Plains rifle and mentioned my eye sight is why I wasn't shooting my Hawkins.
Figured that was the end of that till one day a package came to my home from Jolly Old England.
I do not know any one from Jolly Old England so was baffled, open the package and there is a orginal package TC tang mount Peep site.
Kind of funny the guy I had talked to at the range had gotten a Email from his brother asking if he knew any one that could use the Peep Site. He contacted my brother for my address.
I can now again shoot the hawkins and be accrite, thanks to that peep sight.
I had planed on taking it out yesterday as birthday rifle shoot but I got sick Christmas eve morning and did not feel good and still don't today.
The weather is and has been great for late December.
Al
