Buying a GPR .54, What else is needed?

[MFP308]

Wow! What a great responce. Thank you for all the input. Even with as much reading as I have done I have so much more to look forward to.

Luckly my wife likes to shoot as well. She knows that this will be a great hobbie that we can both enjoy. She is looking for a small caliber cap and ball pistol for her own plinking fun. She's great!

I'll be picking up the gun on Thursday and start gathering the tools of the trade today and for the next twenty years!

Thanks again for all the great help!


Mike

 

[bpbrs]

:hmm: A Lyman BP loading book like over in the classifieds... sure would explain a lot or questions you'll be asking here in teh near future.

Regards Bill

 

[BrownBear]

Especially starting out, but even later on when we tend to get a bit "forgetful," a range rod is good. I like mine with a great big handle. The one I use now didn't have a big enough handle, so I shove a roll of electrical tape down onto the base.

All that's so you can't see past the sucker when you try to shoot with the rod still down the bore.

My wife shot her rod down the range (real common, actually) when she first started out, and darned near quit the sport over her embarrassment. I finally convinced her it was a normal thing to happen, but to this day she barely hunts because she hates to load with the regular rod. Hard to pack a range rod in the hills, ya know.