GPR kit question

[jtmattison]

I browned everything IMO it looked a lot better.
I did bend the pins very slightly.

Did you disassemble the lock to brown it? Mine is flint. Any recommendations on how to go about it? The lock plate on the GPR flintlock has decorative "carving". I wonder how it would look browned.

Thanks.

HD

 

[captgary]

After the final sanding I was going to put a dark stain on it. In a post from Zonie he said to wet the stock down with water to see what it will look like finished, after looking at it wet I forgot about staining it. After it dried I sealed with LMF sealer and finished with LMF gun stock finish.
Took lock completely apart for browning. Made a tool for removing the spring it is an old, large screw driver with a notch ground in the end. Notch fits around the pin that is inside the spring, allows me to push spring back and out. Dont know about broning one with carvings on it, but if you brown it and dont like how it looks you can steel wool it off and reblue it. To me doing everything two or three times is the fun part of building a kit........

Gary

 

[Jaymo]

Forgive my ignorance, but what does GPR stand for.

 

[Zonie]

Great Plains Rifle, the name Lyman uses for their halfstock rifles made for shooting patched roundballs.

Lyman also makes a version with a fast twist barrel for shooting slugs which they call the Great Plains Hunter Rifle (GPHR?).

zonie