Lyman Trade Rifle Assembly

[Chiefs50]

Well, UPS delivered my Trade Rile yesterday but I am having a problem assembling it. The barrel assembly will not seat properly in the stock. It appears that the bolster is slightly out of position with the circular cutout on the lock. I really don't want to go through the hassle of returning the rifle when it looks like the problem could be remedied by slightly enlarging the cutout on the lock and or filing the bolster down slightly where it rubs on the lock cutout. Have any of you had this problem? What would you suggest?

mike

 

[cayugad]

When I got my Lyman Trade Rifle Flintlock the only problem was the escutcheon plate and the wedge pin did not line up. All it took was 30 seconds and a jewlery file and that problem was fixed.

I looked mine over close but since they are a different style there is really nothing I can see on mine that might help you.

I also changed over to the buckhorn sight right away since it is adjustable. The one that came with the rifle was shooting six inches low right out of the box.

You got a great rifle there and I am sure it is a minor fix for you. My load is 100 grains of Goex 2f and a patched roundball. I patch with pillow tick and moosemilk lube.

Good luck with your rifle and I will be watching for your posts...

 

[BillinOregon]

Mike: Did you check the instructions? Seems to me that is one of the handfitting areas described in the book that comes with the gun, or at least that is my recollection based on having finished a couple of GPR kits.

 

[Brittany1]

I looked at a Deerstalker at a gun show last weekend and I noticed the same thing with it. I couldn't get the barrel to "lay down" like my TC. I read on some forum, maybe this one, that you should loosen your tang screws, install the barrel, then tighten the tang screws. It makes some sense. I would call the factory to see if there's a "trick" to it. Good luck! I'm sure once you get that taken care of you will have exactly what you want.

 

[Chiefs50]

This is not a kit gun but the "handfitting" instructions that pertain to a kit gun do mention filing down the bolster to a achieve a proper fit. Looking closely at my gun, it appears that the tang was mounted slightly too far forward - there is an 1/8th inch gap between the rear of the tang and the stock. As a result, the bolster is slightly forward of the semi-circular cutout on the lock, causing it to bind. This, of course, prevents the barrel assembly from laying down in the barrel channel.

 

[cayugad]

I think I would call that number that is in the Lyman Manual and ask them their opinion. Also be sure and check the screws that hold the barrel rib and thimbles. I noticed yesterday when cleaning my rifle I had lost one screw and two others were loose. So I took some lock tight, treated and replaced the screws and will have to see if Lyman can send me a few more of them for an emergency repair...

 

[Chiefs50]

OK, I loosened the tang screws as suggested, and that got the barrel assembly to lie flat in the barrel channel. Re-tightend the screws and the barrel still dropped in nicely. Now the problem was that the whole barrel assembly was canted due to the bolster failing to fit into the cutout properly. To remedy this I took the file and dremel to the bolster, removing just enough metal to allow the barrel to bed properly. A little touch up blue and it's ready to go.

It's pretty obvious that the stock and barrel assembly were not final test fitted at the factory and that's the least I would expect. Anyway, I hope I'm not in for any more unpleasant surprises with this rifle. Now to clean out the barrel and maybe finally get it out to the range tomarrow.

Thanks for the help guys - I really appreciate it.

 

[canyonman]

It also proves that your gun wasn't test fired at the factory. I'm not sure that Lyman claims to do this, but, many companies do and I've often wondered about the truth of these claims.

Larry

 

[cayugad]

Chief..

Be sure and use a good solvent after your water bath. If your rifle was like mine, the bore was packed with that brown packing grease. I gave that thing about three water baths and a lot of solvent patches before the barrel finally came up clean.

Good luck and make some smoke... be watching for results.

 

[Rebel]

Get you a can of spray carb cleaner and a brush for you rod and scrub all the packing grease out of the barrel good before you EVER fire a shot out of it. Otherwise you will have a real mess to clean up, and accuracy will be non-existant. After scrubbing it good with the carb cleaner run some clean patches down to dry it out and make sure you got all the grease out. That stuff makes a real mess if you fire the gun before geting it out.

 

[Chiefs50]

Cayugad:

I've got the barrel soaking with Ed's Red right now. I use the stuff to clean up hardened cosmoline on the military surplus bolt rifles i collect and it works wonders.

mike