Did the Deed! Picked up GPR .54!

[MFP308]

Yesterday afternoon I finally pulled the trigger so to speak. I went down to the local Sportsmans Warehouse and puchased a .54 percusion Great Plains Rifle. After a bunch of research and asking questions here I made the decision. Sportsmans actually had two to choose from. Both looked good. Nice figuring on the stock, metal to wood joins are clean. All in all a good looking production rifle. Now comes the really fun part, Shooting! After a thurough cleaning I plan to go out Saturday with a friend, who owns a TC Hawken with a GM barrel, and fire my new rifle for the first time! Man am I looking forward to that.

Of course you know this means I will be back with all sorts of questions.


Mike

 

[jethro224]

Congrats Mike,
You're gonna love it!
Man these next couple days are gonna be looooonnnnngggg. :haha:

 

[AZ-Robert]

:thumbsup: Congratulations! But there went the last of your free time and spare change!

Haven't done anything with them myself, but I hear the Old Pueblo Muzzleloaders are an active bunch of shooters.
[url] http://www.muzzleloadermag.com/Clubs/AZclub.htm[/url]

 

[captgary]

Congratulations, you will have lots of fun with it, I know I do with mine. Only next thing ya know you will also want a flinter... :grin:

 

You made a good choice. Congratulations.
Now you need the Great Plains Pistol for a matching set.

 

[MFP308]

Thanks I appreciate the encouragement! I know this will be a long and happy trail. More guns to come most likely.
AZ thanks for the heads up about Old Pueblo I'll look into them.

Mike

 

[jtmattison]

Great choice. I love mine. I have a percussion with two .54 barrels and one .50 barrel and a flint I just built. I love Lyman's rifles. I'm working on owning one of everything they offer.

:hatsoff:

HD

 

[PreglerD]

Congrats!Did the same 4 weeks ago and purchased a cal .45 cap GPR and I love. It is like yours well done and nice looking. shoots great. Now I try to buy a .54 change barrel.

 

[renovato]

Excellant choice! When you're ready, ask away. There's a lot of us GPR owners here.

 

[Zonie]

After you've cleaned the bore, clean it again two or three times.
Lyman protects their GPR's with some kind of stuff that is really hard to remove and the gun will shoot rather erratically if there is any of stuff left in the bore.

Also, I predict your gun will shoot low.
Really low. Too low even for the style with adjustable sights on it.

The reason seems to be that Lyman leaves the front sight tall so that the owner can file it down for whatever range and load he wants to use so, take a flat file with you to file it down.

Remember, to raise the point of impact, you lower the front sight.

Have Fun !

zonie

 

[akroguy]

Yeah, really low! I was filing away all day until I got the shots to come up into the black.
Now I learn that there is still shipping gunk in the barrel that probably caused the crappy groupings. :shocked2: Now it's heat-fused in there. Time to get scrubbing.