Anyways thank for the replies, I'll keep looking around trying to find an answer. I'm a sucker for them also and will still pick one up at the drop of a hat if the price is right. Maybe that's when they started to stamp 'Hawken' on the barrel, don't rightly know much about them and would think there would be more information out there since that model been around for a while. I also found one thread that said the first year of production for the CVA Hawken was 1981 which seems a little late to me. I know the later models were marked 'Hawken' next to the rest of the stuff on the barrel. It doesn't have the double '00' most CVA serial numbers start with either. Indian Joe, I'm thinking mine is an earlier import, the serial number doesn't have a separate date stamp or code on it just the five digit serial number. It had the reddish factory colored finish on it and the wood still had the machine marks on it from chiseling it out of the blank, saying it was as rough as a cob would be generous. Picked it up at a local gun show for $75.00 with the trigger assembly set too deep in the stock so it wouldn't fire. not the purtiest guns but never had one that wouldnt shoot right up there with the bestīP Bill, I've had it for about ten years. a couple branded Dikar spain, a couple Connecticut Valley Arms, got one low number barrel with a 00xxx serial dont know whether its later or earlier I found these things hard to resist at the time, a kit gun for 120 bucks and a spare barrel for 50 !?. Thanks AllEddie my CVA's (several of them) are 1987 imports (dealer got a bulk buy I think) anyway these start the serial number with the year. Just wondering if anybody could supply an approximate manufacturing date or at least the first year CVA offered the Hawken. I know there's a lot of information available on the Mountain Rifle but can't find squat on dating the CVA Hawken. Serial number is 49*63 with no date or 'K' for a kit.

It has a brown barrel marked with 'Connecticut Valley Arms', 'Black powder only ' and 'Spain' with no proof marks. My regular shooter is a CVA Hawken cap lock and I'm wondering about it's age.

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