Love my T/C 50 Cal. Hawkin Hunter....
So do I. It was the first gun I ever bought - the flintlock version. It looked so beautiful. I still prize it.
The Hawken Hunter is a good shooter, but if you do some research on Hawken Rifles, its a modern interpretation rather than a recreation of a classic Rifle.
Most real Hawkens had longer barrels, the stocks were paliner, the nosecaps were pewter, the rifling was designed for a round ball, the bores were coned, the lock of course, was a leaf rather than coil spring, and the furnture was steel not brass. Also the bores were generally larger.
All in all the Hawkin Hunter is still a great gun, especially for getting new people into black powder.
Frankly I don't trust Smith and Wesson anymore after their actions with the Clintons and Winnie Brady. Is that old *itch stil flying around?