![]() Someday, I wanted a Pennsylvania rifle with patch box, curly maple stock and a flintlock for squirrel hunting, but until I could save up for it, I would use a Great Plains Rifle. Half the fun is acquiring or making authentic accouterments to match the rifle. Any of these movies can push you over the edge toward black powder addiction. The most recent mountain man movie is “The Revenant,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Then along came “Jeremiah Johnson” with Robert Redford. The Lyman was a replica of the famed Hawken of mountain man fame, and I had wanted one since seeing the movie “The Mountain Men” starring Charleton Heston and Brian Keith. I had been eyeing the Great Plains kit for a while. I couldn’t find an authentic-looking finished rifle, so I decided to assemble a kit. It was too modern-looking and shiny, and it didn’t fit in with how I thought a long rifle should look. 54 caliber Thompson Center Renegade for deer hunting in Mississippi, before I met Charlie, but the rifle and I never bonded. Just the parts would be several hundred dollars. Charlie loved traditional fiddle music, and he became a regular at the old time music gatherings at my home in Campbell’s Swamp.Ĭharlie didn’t sell rifles, and I couldn’t have afforded one if he did. We became close friends, and hunted together. 50 caliber Lyman Great Plains Rifle from a kit in the early 80s. ![]()
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