At one time he had a half dozen originals at his place. An original heavy Hawken rifle once owned by Bill Fuller of Cooper’s Landing Alaska. I’ll come back to discussing some aspects of it later. It measured 7/8 inches in length and is attached with a single screw (head goes inside next to barrel).” As Doc’s caption to the picture says, this is his favorite Hawken rifle. The article describes the rifle in detail, giving several measurements including, “The barrel is 36-3/4 inches long and measures 1-5/32 inches at the breech and 1-3/16 inches at the muzzle.” He also states, “The fore-end tip is constructed of thin sheet iron, brazed together. He had also written an article about it that was published in the July 1975 issue of Buckskin Report titled, “An Unusual Hawken”. These plans finally came to fruition with the formation of Green River Rifle Works early in 1972.ĭoc has this picture of an original Hawken rifle on his website.
He took photographs, made notes, and formulated ideas and plans to build Hawken rifles. While Doc White was stationed in Alaska during his tour with the Army in the late 1960’s, he had the good fortune to handle, shoot, and even disassemble several original Hawken rifles in private collections. Even though the Leman Trade Rifle was the first production rifle and the biggest seller, the rifle most identified with Green River Rifle Works is the Hawken rifle.
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