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unusual facts about Hawken rifle


Buffalo gun

Hawken rifle, a muzzle-loading rifle from the earlier period of American western expansion


66th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

based on "hunter's dress" and be armed with highly accurate Plains Rifles (handmade half-stock long rifles), provided by the famed St. Louis firearms firm of Horace (H.E.) Dimick of St. Louis (a competitor of the Hawken Brothers, also of St. Louis).

Joseph Brazier

The firm was very active in the 19th century, and was well known as a manufacturer of precision locks for rifles – including some used in the American Civil War – and the American Hawken plains rifle.


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