Lyman Great Plains Rifle Chapter 2 

I have the Lyman GPR flintlock, a great flintlock to get started in traditional black powder. Good quality at a reasonable price.

The Lyman GPR is a top of the line Hawken style rifle and most popular Hawken style gun among living history reenactors of the late Mountain Man events. It is a BIG rifle, 9.5# with a 32" barrel. Hickock is a BIG guy cause that GPR does not look like a big gun in his hands. Lol

I agree that Wonder Lube makes the barrel easier to load. It seams to season the barrel. I swear by the stuff. Thank you for another great video. Love watching your videos about the Old West Guns.

Jeremiah Johnson was a great movie!

What about a chapter 3? I can't get enough of this gun.

"some embers in there...which I have never seen in my life.." YEAH at last someone has said it hahha thanks Hickock I love your vids, great wisdom and sense of humour

I have had a Lyman Great Plains Rifle in 50 cal. Over twenty years. Mine is the fast twist barrel for connicals. It is my primary deer rifle and I've taken plenty with it. Black powder got to be hard to find where I lived in Illinois and I was ever impressed with pyrodex because after several friends had problems with misfires using no 11 caps and my own experience with it, I tried Hodgen triple 7 and have never looked back. Great performance with it and it burns much cleaner than prodex without the ignition issue. Great video.

Thank you Sir can we have another? Hitchkok for President 2016

Never fired a gun in my life but I like this channel and love the movie :)

The Great Plains (Llano Estacado) is the area north from the cap rock in Texas and covers part of West Texas and New Mexico. It was Comancheria and not a place for the white eye buffalo hunters to keep their top knot.

I just shot my Lymans 54 Cal Great Plains rifle and it is just a kick in the pants , this is my 6th muzzle loader and the best unit I have ever owned very accurate and fun !! I have also hunted all day for deer and elk , it is a ton of fun just being out in the woods with the muzzle loader , there is nothing like it out here in the Pacific Northwest ! Cascade and Rocky mountains and the Blue mountains !!

I own a Lyman Deerstalker Flintlock carbine, hunted with it for years. Love it, accurate, reliable, fun, and deadly.

I was elected president of a Black Powder Club in northern Minnesota for a one year term, 15 years ago. I guess I haven't made anyone mad enough to call for another election. Love traditional muzzle-loaders. I've competed and taken deer with them. I even built a couple. I also shoot black powder cartridge out of a 1885 High Wall in a 500 yard match. By the time that bulet hits, the smoke has cleared.☺Keep the vids coming. I watch 'em all.

I could see how much fun you had with such a historically important firearm. Makes you appreciate what our ancestors did for us and to feed their families.

hickock your are like the Bob Ross of fire arms! thanks for sharing

Its not just you, the smell of black powder really goes well with the aroma of damp fresh leaves!! You may try starting that ball with the rounded end and then the stub, then the longer stub, works better for me!! What a wonderful way to spend a day, thanks for sharing this wonderful enjoying day!!!

Was wondering if we'd see this rifle again. Thanks guys. Merry Christmas.

Christ, that thing has some muzzle velocity. It got to the 80yd gong in no time.

Hickock, that is a gorgeous rifle. It is nearly the same as my TC Renegade in 54. I also have a TC Hawken in 50. Your great advice is spot on. If you want to shoot muzzleloaders, just make it a muzzleloader day. :) I like your range rod that you are using too.

Great to see Hickok45 having fun.

A BP day at the range is just very relaxing. It just makes you slow down and enjoy yourself. It's always interesting to have a little fun with a target competition as well. Going head to head with your buddies at 100 yards using BP firearms is always a lot of fun. Of course it's more fun when you win, lol.

Good video, Hickok45. You flip, the 4+ foot long & 9 pound, Lyman rifle around like it was just a stick. It looks like a lot of fun to shoot the black powder rifle at the compound. The fall sunlight, and the fallen leaves does make it look like steel-target hunting season.

I love the plains style rifles too, have several. If ever in Louisville, the Frasier Museum has a couple originals. Nice place to visit too.

Can you imagine having a giant grizzly bear charging you and this is what you have to bring him down with, makes shot placement very important. I believe it was Clark that wrote in his journal on the Lewis and Clark expedition about their many encounters with the grizzly bears that, "the men have satisfied their curiosity with this animal" of course they were using flintlocks which made it even more challenging.

I love whatever camera you are using now. On full screen HD mode, the resolution is amazing. Great video's! Keep 'em coming!!

your videos keep on getting better and better, nice review

Can you skin Griz, pilgrim?

Enjoyed your video. I've always wanted a Great Plains rifle, but haven't got one yet. It's hard to give a guy like you a tip because you already know so much, but I got tired of struggling with the ball starter so now I set the patch and ball on the barrel then hit it with a small rubber hammer. Seats it perfectly every time with one hit. I see a lot doing this now at the walk through courses as well as on the practice range. Some have even made there own hammers so as to make them look more period correct.

I also believe that Wonder Lube and Bore Butter help with smooth followup loadings. But in addition to that, I think the deep rifling grooves add to the smooth reloading as some of the fouling is squished into that extra groove space by the subsequent patched ball.

Hickok is so cool, what a wealth of info on these cool guns.

07:25 that perfectly timed focus switch ! haha love it

I just love my BP rifle. It's a CVA .50cal, shoots just like a charm. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from N.Z.

I can't believe you gave away the secret of the great Tennessee coconut :)

Good job. It really looks like fun, and a good way to spend day. I know you have alot going on now. The bigger you get and so on, but keep them coming. Have a good one.

What a nice rifle! I may have to get one soon, thanks for the video!

I really like those old guns. I have a few black powder guns and also an Ardesa Hawken Challenger rifle in .45. Those guns make so much fun to shoot and they look so nice :)

From what I know, barrels with smoother twist rifling, or specific smooth twists depending who you are talking to, stays smooth almost no matter how much you fire them! Great video, thanks a lot for this :)

I had the opportunity to shoot a Hawken rifle once owned (and documented) by Jim Bridger. At the time, it was owned by a expert/collector of Winchester rifles and other frontier arms. Just holding that rifle was a spiritual trip in itself. Keep yer nose to the wind, and yer eyes along the skyline...

I have a Lyman 50 caliber with double triggers. I hunt deer with a 275 grain Minnie bullet lubed with Wonderlube and no patch. I usually load 100 grains of FFG. It's plenty accurate and hits hard. Fun rifle.

I hope that's not only me who loves Hickok's muzzleloaders videos that much.

I had a black powder navy .36 back in the early '70s. Ordered it out of the back of a magazine, I must have been about 12. did ask my parents permission before I went and bought that postal money order and sent off for it. Times have changed. I used to ride my bike down to the gravel pit and shoot for hours with that thing, then more hours soaking it clean. That old pistol taught me a lot. I've been thinking about going back to try that again. I mostly shoot indoors now. Would be nice to be back outside, shooting at a more deliberate pace. Might just give it a try.

I've got the black powder fever now. I've been watching your muzzleloader videos for the last month or so. I went to the big Tulsa gun show last weekend and had a whole new appreciation for all the old iron and wood pieces. There were lots of authentic, old examples, from the brown bess (and earlier) up through the civil war and more modern types. I picked up a TC Renegade. Can't wait to go make some smoke!

I have a Lyman plains 54cal pistol, great fun and accurate

No cutscenes no slow mo cam no jelly just plain old hickock shooting with his son. this is why they are the best youtube gun nuts

I wish I hadn't watched these 2 videos. I used to have a G.P.R. in the early '80s and I let it go, and now I want another. It was also the slickest loading muzzleloader I've ever owned, but I don't think it was from wonderlube since i used plain ol' crisco for patch lube back then. They are just quality built and finished firearms. Mine had the best lock of any of the muzzleloaders I've ever had. It just loaded easy and shot well.

Have this rifle in 54 1/60 twist for round ball, and second barrel in 50 1/32 twist coming for conicals. Great and accurate as hell. I use 535 ball.

I have this same rifle, I put the Lyman peep sight on it and with that setup I'm able to get 2-3 inch groups out to 150 yards and 5 inches at 200 yards. These lyman rifles are very accurate with practice its possible to get even further but I limit my hunting of big game to 200 yards with a traditional muzzleloader.

The Lyman Great Plains Rifle is lapped making a smother surface in the bore which gives soot less area to arachnid to is the reason the Lyman stays cleaner.

Had my Lymans Great Plains hunter rifle out in the woods hunting deer this past week :) It is a fun rifle to shoot and haunt with also.....

This is a beauty, this is big bore stopping power!

I took a muzzleloader to the rifle range one day. The other shooters didn't appreciate it. They were mad that the smoke made it hard for them to see their targets. I put it away after a few shots. I had that problem with shooting a deer. It ran off,I didn't see which direction it went. It was getting dark. I found it thirty yards in the woods. Surprised it ran that far with a big hole in it's chest.

Didn’t know they made this in a percussion lock. I have one in the flintlock, sweet shooting gun.

That is a great video. I have a hawken cap lock and a kentucky rifle that is a flintlock. Both are fun to shoot.

one of the guys at the outdoor range last week when I blew the cobwebs out of my .17hmr. I don't even want to go watch because I might get hooked. Thanks for the great smoke pole demo.

i picked up a lyman trades... the trigger guard is a lil different and a few a barrel of 28" and brass furnishings. instead of the 32" on the great plains.... i am in love with my new black powder rifle... i heard in some states it was legal to marry your gun...:P after each shot i blow threw the nipple to clear any burning ambers... its how they did it in the western days... no one wasted time on wet patch and dry patch. only clean it if it gums up and after shooting for the day... not after each shot like some youtuber yuppies do lol...

Hickok45 : Man's version of "The Gong Show"

I just put together a Hawkins and man... That thing is so much fun!!!

Mr Hickok45, my first love is muzzleloaders. I got my 1st any type of firearm in 1979 & it was a muzzleloader T.C. Renegade and I've only hunted with that rifle from that point on in my life. I was 21 at that point. My uncle is the one that taught me to hunt and I going him hooked onto muzzleloaders. Now days I don't like the so called modern in-line muzzleloades. It goes agains why I got my muzzleloader in the first place. may be it's just me. Ricky

Loved this one!

That thing is SO COOL!!! I want one to try and harvest a deer with during muzzleloader season, but my buddies tell me all the time, “what’s wrong with you, you can’t try to hunt with one of those things, without a scope you won’t even be able to hit a deer 10 yards away!” And that’s really what they believe… I know you’re the best shot around, but by the way you can hit every one of those little metal animals at 60-75+ yards away tells me that if I practiced, surely I could get good enough to hit a “deer-sized target” at 100 yards..

Robert Redford used his own property for 2/3 of the scenes in Jeremiah Johnson.. I like your shooting range...:)

Had the pleasure to meet Hickok45 today in somerset keep up the good work love your vids!

Great fun. I have a Thompson Center New Englander 50cal.

13:04 there is a yellow jacket right near your hand, and thanks Hickok you make studying about history a lot less boring and you are the reason I bought a Mosin for fun, merry Christmas also it's my birthday on Christmas it would be cool if you could do a video on that day thanks and take care

I like that lid/pouring adapter on the Goex can. Can you show us how and what you made it from?

Man these videos look heck of a lot better on my new 60" 4k curved TV. Life is good :-)

Looking nice and slim there Hickok! Looks like you're doing your ab crunches!

Great camera work!

What a badass bee, didn't even flinch.

great video as always

i hunt with a .45 cal Kentucky, i love the gun so much

i know exactly what you mean,,,,, the smell of burnt powder , i used to have a .45 cal Pennsylvania rifle. i really do miss that gun. Thanks for the videos

Do shooters in Kentucky use Tennessee windage?

You can really shoot aim and hit, best result i seen with a patch and ball hats of for you .My self a can hit a barn door with a muzzleloader but that's it

Beautiful Rifle Sir.

i got one of these, though not directly from lyman, i ended up getting a 24" - 1:24 twist in 50 cal. same company that makes the lyman - investarms i think? I thought about the .54, but .50 seems much more available and I can sabot down to 45. you can get them used for 300 or so in fantastic condition. mine came with a chrome lined barrel, looks like it was fired maybe 5 shots, cleaned, oiled, then hung on the wall or something. I have the double trigger, the trigger is pretty good for my tastes even without the double set. the set trigger on mine is a beast tough, like 25lbs or something. once its set however, i feel like the wind would set this thing off. i have yet to shoot it, as i don't have any BP or BP sub, patches, or any of the accessories. i really need to get on that. just sucks because there's not a lot of places to get it here (NJ, hate it, not a resident - so getting anything that requires a FPID means i gotta go home to MA to get it, which isn't much better - or go to a state that doesn't care as long as you are over 18). wish they made some good starter kits that had everything minus maybe caps, wads, powder and lead. there's just something about shooting BP, and the classic old school stuff that just hits you at some point in your life if you are truly a firearms enthusiast. i think its just a matter of when.

This is one nice rifle!

OMG! Blasting a yellow jacket would have been funny. What a nice rifle. I own a custom CA half stock built by Andy Fautheree of Sacramento CA fame. It's a great shooter. I love shooting muzzleloaders. I also have a Traditions Trapper Model pistol. Equally as fun.

Nice shooting hickok

id love to see you do some more muzzle loader vids.

Good times Hickok!

New Lyman GPR are now 1:60 twist, I just got a 2017 50cal but my 1996 Lyman FOR flintlock is 1:66, don't know if there is an accuracy difference.

ironically the round ball load for these .54's exceeds the Minie loads for .58 (Civil War was 60 grains)...if you load a .58 Minie with more than 90 grains there will be heavy skirt deformation, like a shuttlecock...but patched ball will take up to 100 grains with no problem even in the smaller calibre.

BP cleaning solvent, and patch lube 1:1:1 rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, Murphys oil soap. Can also be 2:2:1 of same ingredients. Cleans and lubes great with no rust like I used to get with water.

I'm actually looking at getting one of these in a flintlock...Kit...can't decide if I should go .50 or .54

Jerimia Johnson great movie.

Age old question. guy in front of you, do you reload? or do you charge with bayonet?

I love umm. I have 3 T/C Hawken rifles. 1 - 36cal, 1- 45cal, 1- 50 cal. They are very accurate and great for hunting with. I go out in to the desert behind my house where I have targets set up and spend the afternoon just making smoke. LOVE IT.

Thanks, that was fun! :-)

I took 10 of them to the range the other week. I made a 'baffle box' target 24 x 36 of 1'' pine boards spaced 1 1/4'' apart, 7 deep. Fired at it from 1, 7, 10 ,20 ,25 ,45, and 80 yards. Picket went through all. Unlike the 1860s test showing the '60 out performing the Dragoon, my test showed contrary. Curiously, the heavy elongated balls from the holster pistols seemed to have gained energy after about 20 yards, penetrating m o r e ! Round balls doing just the oposite. '49 with a light elongated of about 120 to the pound r e a l l y performs well! ! !

wish my dad could watch you he would love it as much as i do.

The only way to smoke pots without inhaling. Heavy smoke pole shooting, just add two pummel pistols, two walkers and the neighbors get nervous.

It must be something about muzzle loaders, we always have a big shoot after the first snow of the year. Maybe it is because of all the moment involved keeping us warm.

What's a good beginner's black powder muzzle loader? I love the look of what you are doing, how do I get started right without either overspending or buying junk

I have a question for whoever has the answer. This summer I picked up my first muzzleloader and have to say I love it! It is an Ithaca from the late 70’s as far as I can find out. My question is this, has anyone ever had a muzzleloader have a caliber stamped on the barrel and then the actual caliber be different? It is stamped .50cal but is actually a .54cal. Again, I am a muzzleloader greenhorn to say the least. Love the video and the channel. Thanks

what time of day was this the clarity of scene was awsome!!!!

I noticed the rear sight on your particular rifle is adjustable. I have a Lyman great plains in 50 caliber with both barrels the round ball barrel and the bullet barrel however each one has a fixed buckhorn sight and I was wondering if you might be able to acquire a fixed buckhorn sighted barrel to do a video on. Just wondering hope you can do this

8:58--a genius idea: a Flint-glock!! Now there's something I'd spend money on without question.

do a review on a Traditions Pennsylvania Flintlock or a Pedersoli Pennsylvania Flintlock.......I'm interested in getting of those 2, just can seem to find any in depth reviews or comparison videos.

Is the Lyman Great Plains the same Lyman that makes the reloading equipment