Thread: Hawkins Barrels

He definately made barrels for other-than-muzzle loaders.

Pretty sure he made his own deep-boring machine , and made some decent barrels at a time when no one else in NZ was making them.

Originally Posted by Fee Knicks

He definately made barrels for other-than-muzzle loaders.

Pretty sure he made his own deep-boring machine , and made some decent barrels at a time when no one else in NZ was making them.

Made all his own barrel making machines, he made barrels for Browning BAR's with the locking lugs machined into the new barrels, at a time when others were leaving the old chamber and threading the new barrel on to it. Also made chamber reamers when they were hard to source overseas, very talented.