What a Blast!
12-05-2003, 08:45 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ridgeland Wisconsin
Posts: 276
What a Blast!
Hello Folks,
Well my Lyman Great Plains Rifle arrived Wednesday. I have been out shooting the last two nights after work. What fun it is! I have only had time to fire about 7 or 8 rounds each night before it gets to dark. The first night it was hitting about six inches low at fifty yards using 80 grains of powder with the 245 gr Powerbelt. I boosted the load up to 100 gr and was hitting about an inch and a half low. That was with my rear sight as high as it would go. Today I filed down My front sight a little, and lowerd my rear sight to about the half way point. I also had to drift the front sight to the right a smidge as I was hitting about 2 inches to the right.
Out on the range tonight the elivation was right on, but I was 6 inches to the left. I drifted my front sight to much the first time. After another adjustmet I got the windage right on. Then I filed a little more off my front sight and ended up about 6 inches high. at fifty yards. By the time I got to this point I ran out of day light. I think I got my sights where I want them. Now that I am 6 inches high at fifty with my rear sight in the middle of its adjustable range, I can either lower my Powder charge or lower my rear sight to bring down my point of impact. I would like to get it hitting an inch or two High at fifty yards. To this point It seems to group them pretty well for me. It puts them in about a two inch circle at 50 yards. I could never do better than that with open sights on a 30-30. I also found that the 275 gr TC Maxi Hunters shoot about the same as The 245 gr Power belts out of this gun, which I think is great, I don't want to own a real fussy gun.
I had a little dilemma at first tonight. My nipple was plugged up. I think it was a hair off the cleaning brush a run down the barrel before I left home today. It took five caps and some poking of the nipple to get the first load to fire. I was nervous there for a wile. I have been cleaning it thoroughly each night in the sink with hot soapy water. A friend of mine showed me how to do that. So far it has cleaned out real nicely. At this point just cleaning it up is a blast for me. Well tommorow I hope (hope being the key word) to fine tune every thing in the morning. I know its going to take a lot more shooting to get it dialed right in. But if all goes well I might get to do some hunting in the afternoon.
Jerry
Well my Lyman Great Plains Rifle arrived Wednesday. I have been out shooting the last two nights after work. What fun it is! I have only had time to fire about 7 or 8 rounds each night before it gets to dark. The first night it was hitting about six inches low at fifty yards using 80 grains of powder with the 245 gr Powerbelt. I boosted the load up to 100 gr and was hitting about an inch and a half low. That was with my rear sight as high as it would go. Today I filed down My front sight a little, and lowerd my rear sight to about the half way point. I also had to drift the front sight to the right a smidge as I was hitting about 2 inches to the right.
Out on the range tonight the elivation was right on, but I was 6 inches to the left. I drifted my front sight to much the first time. After another adjustmet I got the windage right on. Then I filed a little more off my front sight and ended up about 6 inches high. at fifty yards. By the time I got to this point I ran out of day light. I think I got my sights where I want them. Now that I am 6 inches high at fifty with my rear sight in the middle of its adjustable range, I can either lower my Powder charge or lower my rear sight to bring down my point of impact. I would like to get it hitting an inch or two High at fifty yards. To this point It seems to group them pretty well for me. It puts them in about a two inch circle at 50 yards. I could never do better than that with open sights on a 30-30. I also found that the 275 gr TC Maxi Hunters shoot about the same as The 245 gr Power belts out of this gun, which I think is great, I don't want to own a real fussy gun.
I had a little dilemma at first tonight. My nipple was plugged up. I think it was a hair off the cleaning brush a run down the barrel before I left home today. It took five caps and some poking of the nipple to get the first load to fire. I was nervous there for a wile. I have been cleaning it thoroughly each night in the sink with hot soapy water. A friend of mine showed me how to do that. So far it has cleaned out real nicely. At this point just cleaning it up is a blast for me. Well tommorow I hope (hope being the key word) to fine tune every thing in the morning. I know its going to take a lot more shooting to get it dialed right in. But if all goes well I might get to do some hunting in the afternoon.
Jerry
12-05-2003, 10:45 PM
#2
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 21,193
RE: What a Blast!
You have a great rifle there. I do not own one, but I would like to. I have shot them, and I could not believe how accurate they were with patched roundball. I always said if I got another sidelock it would be a .54 caliber GPR. I make my own roundball and conicals, but I shoot a T/C Renegade and a CVA Mountain Stalker. Both are great shooters. There is just some appeal to the Lyman GPR. I often find myself checking prices on their kits... Good luck with your rifle..
