50 caliber percussion kit from Mid South Guns, in Wagrum, North Carolina, and by mistake, two arrived. Someday, I wanted a Pennsylvania rifle with patch box, curly maple stock and a flintlock for squirrel hunting, but until I could save up for it, I would use a Great Plains Rifle. Half the fun is acquiring or making authentic accouterments to match the rifle. Any of these movies can push you over the edge toward black powder addiction. The most recent mountain man movie is “The Revenant,” starring Leonardo Dicaprio. Then along came “Jeremiah Johnson” with Robert Redford. The Lyman was a replica of the famed Hawken of mountain man fame, and I had wanted one since seeing the movie “The Mountain Men” starring Charleton Heston and Brian Keith. I had been eyeing the Great Plains kit for a while. I couldn’t find an authentic-looking finished rifle, so I decided to assemble a kit. It was too modern-looking and shiny, and it didn’t fit in with how I thought a long rifle should look. 54 caliber Thompson Center Renegade for deer hunting in Mississippi, before I met Charlie, but the rifle and I never bonded.
Charlie loved traditional fiddle music, and he became a regular at the old time music gatherings at my home in Campbell’s Swamp.Ĭharlie didn’t sell rifles, and I couldn’t have afforded one if he did. We became close friends, and hunted together. In 1982, I was assigned to write a story about his hobby. Charlie made long rifles from scratch, literally lock, stock and barrel. We met when I was a reporter for the Vicksburg Evening Post, in Vicksburg, Mississipi. It’s one of my favorite hunting rifles.Ĭharlie recommended the Great Plains Rifle as “the one I’d get if I was making a kit rifle.”Ĭharlie started me on the road to black powder addiction. 50 caliber Lyman Great Plains Rifle from a kit in the early 80s. 54 caliber flint or percussion.I made this. This classic muzzleloader offers such high quality features as a 32" barrel with 1 in 60" twist for patched ball and hunting loads, double set triggers, Hawken style percussion "snail" with clean out screw, separate ramrod entry thimble and nose cap, and reliable coil spring lock with correct lock plate. No other factory assembled rifle or kit offers the authentic style and design of Lyman's Great Plains Rifle.
Originally designed and built by such famous makers as Hawken, Gemmer and Demick, Great Plains rifles were the best and most reliable designs and finest workmanship available. Barrel Length: 32" Octagon, Chrome Moly, BluedĪ unique combination of traditional style and modern performance. The rifle carried across the Great Plains by western pioneers and fur trappers was the culmination of percussion firearms development.
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