Archive:  Hawk Cartridges & 

Z-Hat Custom Articles

These articles have appeared in various magazines and are reprinted here with the permission of the publishers, credit is listed with each article.  If you are interested in Hawk cartridges or the work of Z-Hat Custom, these articles will either answer your questions or create whole new ones.  
We will be glad to answer your new questions, click here to email us.

Just click on the article of interest.

Bolt Guns In the Brush (411 Hawk)
Deer & Big Game Rifles, 2003
Cast Bullets in the 411 Hawk, 
Handloader #227
Hawk Wildcats,    Handloader #193 Super Sixes
Deer & Big Game Rifles, 2003
Rifle Shooter, Hawk Wildcats June, 1998 Z-Hat Winchester 95, Takedown, Rifle #197
375 Hawk/Scovill, Handloader #166 Rifle Shooter, 240 Hawk, December 2000
Defining Efficiency and the 300 Hawk

Who won the Winchester 95, 375 Hawk/S?

The 400 Whelen, Precision Shooting Meet the Gunsmith, Z-Hat Custom
Guns Magazine, May 2004
Loaded for Bear, Rifle #173 Business Profile, Z-Hat Custom
appeared in the Casper Journal

"The Fifty"     Rifle #214

Last of the Sourdoughs, Rifle #218

Wildcat Cartridges & 20 VarTarg, Gun World Magazine, December 2006

6mm Remington Update, Gun World, August 2007

There are more in the works, we will of course post them when possible.

"With our life on the so-called edge, my son Ben and I use lever actions exclusively, 
which is where the .375 Hawk/Scovill in the 1895 Winchester is at it's best."

Ed Stevenson, Master Guide, Barnes Reloading Manual #3

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