L & R Locks

[Rifleman1776]

If you don't care to bother, you must be a lot richer than the rest of us.
I would send both back to L&R with a polite but firm note explaing the situation and ask for tune up or replacement.

 

[wattlebuster]

I dont normally get involved in these kind of threads but when I buy something new I expect it to work like its new. If not then it goes back period. Seems like anytime I ever read anything about lock trouble its got L&Rs name attached to it. And that has been a lot an for a long time. I have 3 brands of locks and several of the same brand. zero trouble out of any of them and a couple now have several thousand shots on them. You can get a lemon on anything you buy occasionally but when you read about constant lemons from the same company then it makes me think they have a big lemon tree in the middle of the shop

 

[jamesthomas]

I have a Left hand L&R Bailes Lock. Its real fast and throws a ton of sparks.

 

[Tgold62]

I've had good luck with my L&R late English on my fullstock Hawken, fast and reliable.

 

[Walks with fire]

I have a Late English lock and I like it and it works good. I have had alot of trouble with the old TC locks but the new hammer and frizzen designs are very good and reliable locks. Like someone else said; if it isn't working right send it back and have it tuned up. Nothing worse than a lock that doesn't work well.

I would have gone with a replacement lock for my TC's if I hadn't heard about them replacing them for free a few years back. So I sent them in and got two new locks back. What a world of difference. This was right before S&W bought them out. I will miss the old TC company.

 

[satwel]

I have built two rifles using L & R Classic locks. Both perform flawlessly. I also have two rifles with large Siler locks. The only difference in performance between the two brands that I have noticed is that flints last a little longer in the L & Rs.

 

[54ball]

L&R had some problems a few years back. Hopefully those were corrected as reports of "bad" L&R locks seem be less and less in the past couple of years.

Now the in muzzleloading business, parts may stay on the shelf a few years so that run of L&R locks may continue to haunt them for years to come.

They make many profiles that are not available anywhere else, especially in left hand.

Even their bad or problem locks were much better than the foreign or poorly designed locks of decades ago.

 

[Herb]

Here is that L&R Manton Ashmore (now called a Late English) lock. I built this rifle in 2009 and did nothing to the lock. Flints may go up to 100 hammer falls. This rifle has been shot 1500 to 2000 shots now, and I like this lock very much.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Good info, Herb.
I always enjoy your posts. You exemplify how we all should be approaching this avocation. Trying, testing and doin' it yerself. :thumbsup: