![]() 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. 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. In 1982, I was assigned to write a story about his hobby. Charlie made long rifles from scratch, literally lock, stock and barrel. We met when I was a reporter for the Vicksburg Evening Post, in Vicksburg, Mississipi. It’s one of my favorite hunting rifles.Ĭharlie recommended the Great Plains Rifle as “the one I’d get if I was making a kit rifle.”Ĭharlie started me on the road to black powder addiction. 50 caliber Lyman Great Plains Rifle from a kit in the early 80s. ![]()
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