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I'm 39, if that helps.

I have carried TC Hawken rifles, as well as a TC Renegade and a Lyman Great Plains rifle. I don't find my custom rifle more difficult/cumbersome to carry than any of those rifles.

I held a 54-cal from the same rifle maker...a Lancaster style schimmel. Couldn't have been more than 7lbs.

Ha! 39! It's all downhill from there! Actually, I'm almost 49, only 10 years older. But, I have really bad legs that make it very challenging to walk in the woods these days.

I've hunted with both of those rifles as well and your info is helpful. Thanks.

Mine was a Jim Chambers kit, a Mark Silver - Virginia Rifle.
It was put together by Steve Zihn out in Wyoming.
It is a .62 uses 90 grains of 3f Goex weighs 8.5 lbs.



Yours is beautiful, and looks like it shoots as well as it looks.

I've been hunting with muzzleloaders for 30 plus years and fill a lot of tags, mostly with a 54. My favorite is a 54 Hawkin halfstock made for me by Steve Zihn, a very good friend of mine who lives about 30 minutes down the road. I have all the fixin's for building a 62cal fullstock Hawkin flinter with a custom made barrel by Bill Moody,who also made the barrel for the 54. Both are based of off originals from the Buffalo Bill museum in Cody. The 54 is good and hefty and balances perfectly and steady, expect the 62 will as well (if I can ever get time to work on it and finish it.

j2, that's a nice looking rifle!

viking, I've only used (briefly) a 45-cal and (much more than the 45) a 50-cal prior to getting my 62, so I can't directly compare them. I can say, with one deer under my belt with the 62, I'm extremely impressed. Hopefully I can knock down another one before the season ends, but it's tough hunting this late in the year.

I have not seen a single instance online of anyone who got a 62 and later regretted it.

Thanks tddeangelo. That .62 is big hunk of lead that does a number on deer.
If I am correct Steve told me its the same as a 20 gauge slug.

62-cal fowlers are 20ga, yes. The roundball weighs approx 324 grains. They bleed speed fast, but they have a whole pile of energy behind them.