Left side lock?

[Wolfgang4570]

Well, It's coming down to the wire on the auction for the GPR lefty flinter and I believe that I am going to give it a shot. Wish it was a .54 instead of a .50 but all in all still a hard hitting caliber for white tails. Any final thoughts from all of you in the know?

Thanks again,

Schutzenkette

 

[BrownBear]

You can add a 54 cal barrel.

 

[Wolfgang4570]

Never really thought of that. I did a quick check and found that you can get a Lyman barrel at the Log Cabin Shop but the cost is $300.00 :shocked2: Any place else you can think of?

Schutzenkette

 

[BrownBear]

They're $220 at Midsouth.

 

[Wolfgang4570]

Thanks BrownBear I never even thought of looking there for one. $220.00 seems a bit more reasonable. I think I'm going to give the .50 a shot and then knowing now I can step up to a .54 just makes it more attractive. Been corresponding a bit with the fellow that has the rifle and he told me if I did go after it he had some extra english flints and a spare hardened frizzen he would send along with it. He also has both sets of the original sights that came with the gun so I would not need to stick with the 57GPR aperature sights if I did not wish to. I wonder if you can get just the sight bases for those so you could move the actual sight to other guns like my T/C's.

Thanks again,

Schutzenkette

 

[CG6018]

Pennsylvania's Game Commission gave us a flintlock season back in 1974. At that point, I knew absolutely nothing about flintlocks, but knew that I wanted to be a part of this new hunting experience. I'm a lefty, but in my desire to be a part of the after Christmas season, I came home from a gun auction with a TC .50 cal. flintlock, right-handed, of course.

After missing 4-5 deer with the TC, I traded "up" to a right-handed Hatfield offered by Cabela's. It was a beautiful rifle that fired every one out of three trigger pulls, and advanced my flinching syndrome ten fold!

I finally realized that a right-handed flintlock was not going to enhance my appreciation of early Pennsylvania gunmakers, nor was it going to add venison to our freezer! I sold the Hatfield to an unsuspecting righty, and bought myself a used lefty flintlock from Brad Emig of Cabin Creek Muzzleloaders. I've never looked back, and we semi-annually, or so, eat venison!

The only way I could totally ignore the flash-in-the-face of shooting a right-handed flintlock was to shut my eyes! Hitting bull's-eyes and harvesting venison are difficult tasks under those circumstances!

 

[Wolfgang4570]

The GPR lefty flinter is on its way! :grin: I am sure that when it gets here and I have the time to start shooting it I will be full of more questions. Thanks again to all who have replied and provided input on this. I hope that the learning curve on shooting this new rifle will be shortened and more enjoyable now that I have been armed with the knowledge from those on this site who have been there and done that. I am sure I'll have lots more questions but from the different things I have read on here so far I think I will be a little ahead of the curve.

Schutzenkette

 

[Many Klatch]

FYI, Mike Lea sets up at rendezvous as the "Gun Doctor" and repairs guns onsite at the voo. He sets up at all the major rendezvous and Friendship all Summer long. He has probably repaired more guns than any other two gunmakers combined. If Mike fixed it then you can count on it.

Many Klatch

 

[Wolfgang4570]

Talked with the fellow I got it from to set up the shipping details and we chatted for quite some time. He told me he sent it off to Mike Lea because he didn't like the way the frizzen sat on the pan. He told me that Mike called him back after receiving it and told him that there were other things he didn't like about the lock and he told his to go ahead and do whatever he thought needed to be done and when he got it back it was smooth as silk and everything fit together perfectly. He said that the pan is polished like a mirror and the Mike also modified/replaced the vent liner. I'm excited about getting it and learning to use it properly. :grin:

Schutzenkette

 

[Tony Logan]

sounds like an excellent choice to me.

 

[Wolfgang4570]

Still waiting. Had to work all weekend and Saturday nobody was here to sign for it so it now is sitting in the local post office until Tuesday.

Patience is a virtue but dang I really want to check it out. Wednesday my wife has to have some fairly substantial surgery so looking is all I will have a chance to do for a while anyways.

Schutzenkette

 

[Wolfgang4570]

The GPR is finally in my grubby little hands! :grin: Nice looking rifle. Tried the lock out and it throws an impressive shower of sparks. It has a fiber optic sight on the front end which glows like crazy but I am not real keen on how it looks. The 57 GPR rear sight is nice too but I think this one will have its original sights put back on it. At any rate I will not get to shoot it for a while since the wife is due in for surgery tommorow morning and there's lot's to get done. I'll drop a note on how it shoots once everything gets back to normal and thanks again to everyone for the input.

Schutzenkette

 

[BrownBear]

Best wishes for your wife, and for sure keep us posted on the shooting.

 

[Wolfgang4570]

Thanks Brown Bear will do.

Schutzenkette

 

[tg]

These are nice guns I am sure you will really like it and gte a lot of use out of it, I prefered the primitive sights on mine, they look a lot better also.

 

[Wolfgang4570]

I hope I do as well tg. I need to get some ffffg for the pan but if I don't get some before I get the chance to shoot it I'll just try some fffg and see how that goes.

Schutzenkette

 

[BrownBear]

I need to get some ffffg for the pan but if I don't get some before I get the chance to shoot it I'll just try some fffg and see how that goes.

I'm betting you'll like the 3f just fine, better in fact if you're in the wet. Heck I've even used 2f and it worked great for my tastes. Maybe I'm just not sensitive enough to tell the difference. :rotf:

 

[Wolfgang4570]

Well I'll just have to give FFFg a try and see how it works out before I monkey around with FFFFg. I wish you could get it in less than 1 pound cans. A pound would last a looong time with no more than you have to use. :v

 

[Ron LaClair]

It's tough being left handed in a right handed world... :idunno: ... but that's the price us lefty's have to pay for being smarter and more talented than the common right handed folks.. :hmm: .. :rotf:

 

[Robby]

:thumbsup: :grin:
Robby