Walnut stocked CVA Hawken

I picked this up many many months ago and did a little more work on it yesterday. This is an ultra rare factory walnut stock from the early 80's during their first few years. CVA pretty much used beechwood, BUT, those early years, they had a limited supply of walnut , and I got super lucky and found one in great shape and  decided to talk my time and restore it. I've already browned the 50cal barrel with Laurel mountain forge. I put a nice thick scale on it to cut the glare. A medium height german silver front sight, bedded the trigger and tang. I'll do some polishing on the lock and triggers for a clean crisp break.

Still have to file the nose cap, but with temps being in the ZERO range this week and -15 and night... I'll set it off to the side for a while until it warms up.









Have to remove the butt plate and debur it later down the road.

I hope you keep us informed (with photos) as you progress!

~Kees~

These were real shooters for a starter ML.

Yesterday I brought the Hawken inside and rubbed a little veggie oil on a test spot to see what it looks like. Not getting any stain! I'll spend a lot of time polishing out the wood to show it off. Very pretty stuff! Even has quite a bit of fiddle back figure.

Pictures don't do it justice. In person that stock is gorgeous. Brings out the colors!
Awesome.

Turned out beautiful.

That looks real good!

First 2 coats of wax on the restored CVA Hawken! Still need to do some touch up polishing on the brass and brown the clean out screw. Other than that, she's coming along nicely!

Great job!

Nice work Jon.

That's because it's a Hawken, not the mountain rifle.