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Okay, im hoping someone out there is a true expert on LGPRs.
I have a rifle i built from a kit in 1991. The bbl has a 1:48 twist and is a Lyman marked percussion. I have never seen this twist advertised. Can anyone shed light on why this twist and/or Lyman GPR barrel variants? Was this just an odd run they did for a few years, "seemed like a good idea at the time" kind of thing?
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I mistakenly bought one in .54 flint years ago only to find that it was 1:48, not 1:60 as the .50 cal model was.
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WStrayer, was the flint new or used when you bought it?
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They were marketed with both barrels, with no other markings than the sticker on the end of the original box, obviously the 1 in 60 for round ball the 1 in 48 compromise twist for round ball and short conicals. Which in my opinion was like all compromises, it would do it all, but it didn't do anything well.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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Thought all the GPRs were either twisted for RBs or later for sabots at 1-32. The brass-trimmed Trade Rifles were 1-48".
What fresh Hell is this?
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They were marketed with both barrels, with no other markings than the sticker on the end of the original box, obviously the 1 in 60 for round ball the 1 in 48 compromise twist for round ball and short conicals. Which in my opinion was like all compromises, it would do it all, but it didn't do anything well. My 1:48 .50 cal barrels do very well with saboted 250 or 240 gr. XTP's.
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I remember the twist being the same as what Pappy said.
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Thought all the GPRs were either twisted for RBs or later for sabots at 1-32. The brass-trimmed Trade Rifles were 1-48". That's what I thought too.
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Fellas, I may be all wrong, I ordered 15 or 20 Lyman Great Plains for customers in the '80's and early '90's. Most guys wanted round ball twist for rendezvous shooting, a few guys wanted to hunt with them and went for the 1 in 48". I wasn't even aware of the 1 in 32" option, at that time. My jobber was RSR out of Sparks Nevada. Maybe they didn't carry the full line of Lyman options.
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I sold a lot of GPR’s before I left the shop end of Feb of ‘86. Then all the GPR’s were 1 in 66". And as stated above the Trade Rifle was 1 in 48. I sold a ton of GPR’s in those days. Most folks went with a T/C Hawken or Renegade for the 48 twist down here. Couldn’t hardly give one of those Trade rifles away.
I know very little of the post 86 stuff.
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