Wowser….

[Pilgrim]

You have a gem indeed. I don’t see too many used traditional ML in my area. Last one I saw was about 5 years ago. An Italian made Iver Johnson over and under double 50 cal rifle in percussion. Walnut furniture and octogan to round barrels. The GPR tells a story. But, all muzzle loaders do. That’s why i enjoy them so much.

 

[slspletskp]

Score!

 

[ETipp]

You have a gem indeed. I don’t see too many used traditional ML in my area. Last one I saw was about 5 years ago. An Italian made Iver Johnson over and under double 50 cal rifle in percussion. Walnut furniture and octogan to round barrels. The GPR tells a story. But, all muzzle loaders do. That’s why i enjoy them so much.

Indeed. Traditional ML are getting as scarce as hens teeth. And its kind of sad really. Back before the latest fad in ML, trads was all we had. Had we known they were going to go the route they did, I'm sure most of us would have stocked up on them back then. Heck, I never wanted a flintlock until now.

Traditional ML truly are works of art.

 

[ETipp]

Score!

Thank you. I feel blessed to have gotten this one. Can hardly wait to do some real world testing and post a more in-depth writeup on it from beginning to present.

 

[beardedhorse]

Nice acquisition. If you intend to hunt with it you owe it to yourself and the animal/s you pursue to wring out the best accuracy with it and be confident with what load works best. I see no problem ptting 100 rounds through it. 5 shot groups from a bench at 25 yards until you get the tightest group with a certain ball size, patch thickness, volume load of black powder. This will take experimentation with all those variables. Then with that optimum load, sight in at 50, 75 and 100 yards. Those who own and shoot Lyman Great Plains rifles may be able to suggest their pet loads. Furniture paste wax on the wood can fill in some of the open grain on the stock and add further protection and leave a matte, non reflective finish. Have fun dialing it in and good luck on the hunt/s.

 

[UndeadPoet]

Nice looking GPR! I love my .50 from 1987. If you can tell me the “date code” on the barrel, I can tell you the year of manufacture. It will probably be two capital letters (mine has “AS”) in a box. Also, I believe most actual Hawken Brothers-made Hawken rifles had blued barrels and not browned (I could be wrong on that, but…).

 

[ETipp]

Nice looking GPR! I love my .50 from 1987. If you can tell me the “date code” on the barrel, I can tell you the year of manufacture. It will probably be two capital letters (mine has “AS”) in a box. Also, I believe most actual Hawken Brothers-made Hawken rifles had blued barrels and not browned (I could be wrong on that, but…).

All digits in the SN.

300291.

This leads me to believe it may be a 1991 model.

There is, however, a small box with the letters [AZ] in it, but its precedes the digits by 1.5" or more.

Pretty sure its a kit rifle.

 

[UndeadPoet]

All digits in the SN.

300291.

This leads me to believe it may be a 1991 model.

There is, however, a small box with the letters [AZ] in it, but its precedes the digits by 1.5" or more.

Pretty sure its a kit rifle.

“AZ” makes it from 1990. I don’t know how Lyman designates a “kit” gun (e.g. T/C starts kit gun serial numbers with a “K”).

 

[Mr. Flintlock]

If

Taylor Pork Roll is a Christmas tradition with my family.

This year I saved the tightly woven cloth wrapper.

Patches! .017 thick.

I was thinking about how to lubricate the material. Then it dawned on me. That material had been marinating in pork fat since it went on the pork roll.

If that pork was salted that cloth will rust your barrel.

 

[ETipp]

“AZ” makes it from 1990. I don’t know how Lyman designates a “kit” gun (e.g. T/C starts kit gun serial numbers with a “K”).

Indeed. I found an old page on here that has a chart that corresponds with the [AZ] 1990 year. I still do not know if its a kit or not but a couple of things are hinting in that direction. All I have is the [AZ] and six digit serial number. No letters such as "K".

 

[hanshi]

From the photos it certainly looks new. That was great luck finding one used in such condition.

 

[smokepolehall]

To all of you that the patching is burning through, put an over the powder wad or half a cotton ball to stop that. Some go to really thick patching trying to stop the burn. Not needed , wad it n find a good load with a patch thickness that is not ramrod breaking to push down the bore