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Redoing a lyman great plains rifle stock7/26/2023 Get yourself a can of brake pad cleaner (cheap at auto supply stores) and put a little of that on your cleaning patches. Yet they won't shoot their best till it's gone. The other deal with Lymans, they ship with the toughest bore protecting grease on the planet, and you play hell getting it out with standard cleaning. 75 metric size rather than the 1/4 x 28 that TC and other American made guns use. It doesn't hurt with the real black I use most of the time. I change out the Lyman nipples with either Knight or TC "hot shot" type nipples and solve the CCI issue completely while getting better performance with Pyrodex or 777. Evidently CCI caps are very slightly smaller because Remington caps just drop right on with no hassles. They just don't seat down all the way, and can cause misfires, especially after the nipple gets a little dirty. Their stock nipples are very slightly tight with CCI caps. I'd bet on Great Northern Guns having them.Ī couple of tricks with the Lyman. Sportsmans used to carry them too, but with all the fluff they've gone through in the last year, who knows. I bought one of mine years ago at the little gun shop up on Muldoon. A buddy has one for his Lymans, and both versions are super accurate. I have several of the Great Plains Rifles with the slower twist and have been thinking about picking up the Hunter barrel, which is a simple drop-in.
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