They did not have any of the Great Plains Rifles in .54 caliber and in flintlock. So I got the .50 Great Plains Hunter figuring I had a lot of different conical bullets and sabots to try. And then I will purchase a .54 caliber Great Plains Rifle barrel from Midway USA. Then I have the best of both worlds.

What weight Thor do you think would work the best, and what diameter?

I'm not sure what Midway gets for a barrel, but Midsouth has the best prices on Lyman.

Cayugad, 250gr with 90gr 3F Goex did awesome in my dads cabelas hawken and it has the 1:48 twist.

Make sure you dont have a loose spot in the bore towards the breech though!

I like that!

Your right.. MidSouth instead of Midway. Boy did they take a jump in price.

Can't argue with that.

Actually, I had the same thoughts when I bought my .54 GPR, figuring I would get a .50 Hunter barrel later. Never got around to it though and lost my desire for another .50. Now the only thing that would really tempt me would be a .45 fast twist flint barrel.

I forgot to mention in my first post.

Brake cleaner works good on getting the factory oil out of the barrel.

My Lyman Deerstalker Flintlock stock is really dark too. And your right that crap in the barrel is a pain to get out. I did like you and now I just need to shoot it once to get it cleaned out for good. My barrel and stock fit really really snug. Almost to the point that I wanted to inlet it alittle bit, but Lyman says dont do it. So we will see. Congrats on the new toy! Thanks to Josmund I bought a pretty much new .54 Lyman Plains Pistol that I plan to shoot this weekend. I'll post pics when I do.

I think dark stocks always look better than the light tone stocks.