.50 or .54

[Hiline]

Need some help here. I currently own a .32 and a .45 and I'm looking at a lyman in either .50 or .54. Which one would be better for all round shooting/hunting/rendevous? I will be trading my 7mm in for it.

 

[rabjr]

Either will do but if I already had a .45, I would jump to to a .54 for anything I wanted to use it for. :v

 

[Hiline]

That's what I was thinking. I also forgot to mention I also own an 1861 in .58 but don't use it much.

 

[David W.]

Another vote for the .54.

 

[nchawkeye]

A .50 won't do anything a .54 won't do...

 

[Little Wattsy]

Need some help here. I currently own a .32 and a .45 and I'm looking at a lyman in either .50 or .54. Which one would be better for all round shooting/hunting/rendevous? I will be trading my 7mm in for it.

I have upgraded almost all of my .50's to .54,s and much prefer them, the .54's, in every catigory! :hatsoff:

 

[bkovire]

go with the 54 :thumbsup:

 

[Hiline]

Thanks all. I will try for the .54. the dealers are notoriously cheap so they may not take the 7mm on the trade. If not oh well, still got three others to play with.

 

[Dave Rosenthal]

The .54 sounds right!

Remember that "trading" is all about positive cash flow to the store. If your 7mm is worth the same as the .54, the guy behind the counter isn't motivated to make the deal. Even if he can turn it around quick. Now if the 7mm is worth more than the .54 he has, and he knows he won't sit on it, cause his shop caters to more than just black powder sniffers, now he's motivated due to positive cash flow. Sometimes accessories like reloading dies, rifle slings, scope mounts, etc. that you can no longer use, but which the store can sell or use as bait to sell the rifle may sweeten the pot so to speak :wink: .

Either way, good luck and make smoke!

Dave

 

[Kentuckywindage]

the 54 will do everything better

 

[Zoar]

I like 54, too.

 

[Don]

The .54 is better medicine on deer and larger game even with round ball, shoots just as accuratly as the .50 and won't beat you up any more than a .50 would. Another vote for the .54

Don

 

[larry wv]

Another vote for the .54 :wink: Larry

 

[luieb45]

Since you're in Montana I'd go with the .54 since you got some big critters up there. And .45s and .50s are too close to one another.

 

[nkbj]

The 54 GPR feels better on my shoulder than the 50, more like a rifle oughta.

 

[BrownBear]

The 54 GPR feels better on my shoulder than the 50, more like a rifle oughta.

I've got both, and I agree completely. I got the 54 first because it just balanced better. Then I built a 50 from a kit. Ended up whacking a whole lot of wood off the 50 to get even close to the natural balance of the 54.

Both kill deer dead, but the 54 does it a little more emphatically. If anything bigger than deer might ever pop over your horizon, you'll be happier with a 54 already in the rack.

 

[longcruise]

Thanks all. I will try for the .54. the dealers are notoriously cheap so they may not take the 7mm on the trade. If not oh well, still got three others to play with.

Like Smokin .50 said, it's about a positive cash flow to the dealer. He needs to buy your 7mm for wholesale and sell you the ml for retail. Trading guns with a dealer is like trading cars. You never come out good unless you trade in an unpolished turd. :redface:

Put your 7 on Auction Arms, get market for it and then pay cash for the ml. In .54 of course!

 

[smo]

Another vote for the .54. It would be better suited for your location. :thumbsup:

 

[nkbj]

As time goes on it seems a shame that extra fifty barrel isn't shorter and a smaller bore. Anybody made a peashooter yet on a GPR?

 

[D Sanders]

Go with the 54. Remember, big guns, big bullets and lots of smoke!!! That's what I always say. :wink:

HH 60