🛠️ How I refinished a Thompson Center Hawken Stock.

Black powder and muzzleloader fun, with a Thompson Center 50 caliber Hawken kit. The T/C Hawken kit had been partially completed. Muzzleloader fun, the barrel had been blued, but the stock had not been sanded or shaped. A previous owner put some kind of stock finish on and considered it done. I had to take the stock through the sanding and filing process, refinish, and stain, and glue some of the pieces.  I tiger, striped the stock, to match a photo of an original Samuel Hawkin rifle from the late 1800’s.  I realized a long time ago that I can’t sit around every campfire or stand at every Mountain Man rendezvous council fire. So I started this YouTube channel to share the frontier know-how and trail wisdom passed down to me by old gray-beard Mountain Men long since gone. I’ve been followin’ the ways of the mountain men of the fur-trade era—shootin’ muzzleloader rifles, black powder pistols, and attendin’ rendezvous—ever since I first saw Jeremiah Johnson over 50 years ago. That’s ten lustrums on the trail. Now I aim to pass some of that knowledge along and help keep this valuable livin’ tradition alive. #blackpowdermatters #mountainman #hawken #blackpowderpaint Mountain Man Dave Links: ☕️Buy Me a Coffee (Support the channel) https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Mountain... Thanks! T-shirts, cups, mugs and hats available at: https://mountainmandave.etsy.com Thanks!