Lyman

[nkbj]

And if built in the 1800's was as liable to be a .38 as a .50 and more likely to kersplode in your face.

Just to kinda drift by the original question does anybody know offhand, was the .45 Plains Rifle the one Lyman made the .454 diameter hollow based mold for? The mold looks like a flat round nose for a 45Colt but has larger lube grooves and a hollow base.

 

[burris]

Like I said, the "Plains Rifle" is not the same as the "Great Plains Rifle". The information you are showing is for the "Great Plains Rifle". Apparently this early version of the GPR was being sold around the same time as the Plains Rifle. If you will check the top of page 38 in your 1975 Lyman Black Powder Handbook, you will see that the "Lyman Plains Rifle" had a 28" barrel with a twist rate of 1:48. The other reason I am fairly sure of the barrel information, is that I have an original 50 cal. Plains Rifle.

 

[necchi]

Yup,
That's a Great Sam Fadala typo.
That's a Plains rifle photo with Great Plains data

 

[Mad Professor]

I have the Lymans plains rifle, it is not stamped plains rifle on either barrel I have. Patch box is different from Cabelas and Investarms. Double set triggers.

The barrels I have are .58 1-48 and a very rare sixty two cal smoothie.

 

[azmntman]

How the .58 shoot?

 

[chuck papesh]

That page from the loading manual was an error that I spotted when it first came out. the picture is not of the GPR.