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If you cant see rifling in the muzzle the piece has most probably been coned by a former owner.Teach, or any muzzle loader shooter, Just traded for a.50 cal muzzle loaded today, but dont know who made it.
Lyman Great Plains Rifle S Serial Number IsNope, tried that when I cleaned it.The serial Number is stamped there, matching the one on barrel.There are 3 or 4 major Italian gunmakers who produce virtually all the traditional-appearing smokepoles. Pedersoli is one of the best, but they usually identify their products. Chances are even if the gun carries one of the familiar names like Traditions, Lyman, or a few others, its a rebadged Italian product. Flintlocks, not so much I had to totally redesign the flash hole liner setup on my Traditions flinter and reharden the frizzen to make it fire reliably. Lyman Great Plains Rifle S Upgrade A BalkyA good Chambers or Siler lock will cost as much or more than the rest of the rifle if someone chooses to upgrade a balky flint lock. The one in the picture looks like a virtual clone of my first Hawken-style.50 caliber rifle from about 30 years ago. I bought it used for 55.00 and put a lot of venison in the freezer, rust-pitted barrel and all. I used green plastic sabots and 180 grain Hornady.44 caliber pistol bullets in it- - - -the pitted barrel would shred a patch and throw round balls everywhere Jerry. Jerry is spot on.the country was flooded with them after Jeremiah Johnson came out. Only way youre going to know you got a good one is to take it out and shoot it. Looks like a kit gun, and theres no way to tell who made it if its not on the barrel. If the set trigger will fit my.45 Cal Kentucky, Ill swope them.Thank guys. ![]() If youre going by the shape of the patchbox- - - -I buy them in bulk as raw castings at muzzleloader shows all the time. That general design is generic to several manufacturers and most of them use the same mass-produced stock furniture. That one sold for less than 150.00 new in the 1980s, and the design hasnt changed at all- - - -the prices just grew. Some of the barrels have a short section of smoothbored muzzle to aid in loading. Most of them have 6-groove cut rifling and as long as BP salts havent eroded big pits in the barrel theyre pretty accurate. Let me suggest losing the rear sight and replacing it with a Lyman tang-mounted peep sight. It increases the sight radius by about 6 or 7 inches, and really improves the accuracy. It uses one of the existing tang screws, and only one extra hole needs to be drilled and tapped. Mine will hold about a 2 group at 75 yards with the peep sight and patched round balls. Not target accuracy like the chunk gun, but definitely minute of deer Jerry.
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