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I fell in love with smoothbores with my 1842 Springfield but always wanted a flint smoothie. After I tuned my pedersoli kentucky flint life is good and reliable and with the two mention guns above ive come to prefer flints and smoothies. So I bought a pedersoli trade gun. So far Im liking it. The ramrod was manure but already made a new one for it. Flint life is low and will need some tuning but I like having spare equipment just in case. Ped locks are way over priced and hard to find right now so I was wondering if anyone here had experience putting an aftermarket on one of these? I read on a different forum that a Davis trade gun lock was the recommended replacement for LOTT marked ped locks. Can anyone verify this?
 
Replacing a lock on an existing gun isn’t an easy project. I replaced my rifle shoppe 1803 lock in a rather odd way.

I took the lock plate in casted form the Rifle Shoppe and used the RE Davis internals and flintcock.

This way I didn’t have to worry about taking out the wood with the RE Davis 1803 lock that doesn’t fit exactly.
 
You might want to take a look at the RPL line of locks. You can download the "actual size" drawings, print them, and use them to compare to your lock mortise.
I have done that on 2 of my guns - one for a replacement and one for a percussion to flint conversion.
They are decent locks and spark great. Both of them are easy on flints as well.
https://lr-rpl.com/index.php
 
You might want to take a look at the RPL line of locks. You can download the "actual size" drawings, print them, and use them to compare to your lock mortise.
I have done that on 2 of my guns - one for a replacement and one for a percussion to flint conversion.
They are decent locks and spark great. Both of them are easy on flints as well.
https://lr-rpl.com/index.php
I will have to check this out! Thanks for the tip.
 

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