g'day folks, :bow: well the new gpr turned up and it was "pretty" wood and finish looked real good, bore cleaned up real well, :grin: was all confident it would shoot good too.
:hatsoff:
went out bush capped her up let her off all good seems to work, went bang anyway.... :v loaded her up with a light load and ball .010 patch yep went bang made a hole in the tree next to aiming mark... :wink: yep all good ran a patch thru, felt good. reloaded, time to try set trigger, set squeeze front trigger hold sight picture........nothing....
......hammer catches at 1/2 cock... damn.... recock, set trigger, aim squeeze trigger........damn. 1/2 cock again.... :cursing:
recock, PULL front trigger real hard....BANG...ball about 2 foot to the right can't hold it straight and exert about 20lbs of trigger squeeze. :hmm: swab out remove lock...no bloody fly in lock mechanism so it returns to 1/2 lock position every time...yep I am one really upset shooter at this stage. :nono: rang my dealer first thing monday morning to find out how to fix it,told I would have to return rifle to brisbane for warranty...about here I got a bit cranky :youcrazy: and told him where the rifle was going to be returned to...and he wasn't going to be a virgin when I finished. :yakyak: .that got his attention...so he rang nioa in brisbane who import lyman gear. one of the guys from brissy rang me and when I stopped ranting at him, :redface: I was told " we have to remove the fly or customs says the trigger is too light, and will confiscate firearm when it enters country." so after giving me a warning about light triggers and their use. he express mailed a fly to me and it just turned up. I will put it in and try again this arvo....damn who said this black powder thing was fun and easy.. :surrender: ...good shooting and glad tidings from downunder, :thumbsup:
:hatsoff:
went out bush capped her up let her off all good seems to work, went bang anyway.... :v loaded her up with a light load and ball .010 patch yep went bang made a hole in the tree next to aiming mark... :wink: yep all good ran a patch thru, felt good. reloaded, time to try set trigger, set squeeze front trigger hold sight picture........nothing....
......hammer catches at 1/2 cock... damn.... recock, set trigger, aim squeeze trigger........damn. 1/2 cock again.... :cursing: recock, PULL front trigger real hard....BANG...ball about 2 foot to the right can't hold it straight and exert about 20lbs of trigger squeeze. :hmm: swab out remove lock...no bloody fly in lock mechanism so it returns to 1/2 lock position every time...yep I am one really upset shooter at this stage. :nono: rang my dealer first thing monday morning to find out how to fix it,told I would have to return rifle to brisbane for warranty...about here I got a bit cranky :youcrazy: and told him where the rifle was going to be returned to...and he wasn't going to be a virgin when I finished. :yakyak: .that got his attention...so he rang nioa in brisbane who import lyman gear. one of the guys from brissy rang me and when I stopped ranting at him, :redface: I was told " we have to remove the fly or customs says the trigger is too light, and will confiscate firearm when it enters country." so after giving me a warning about light triggers and their use. he express mailed a fly to me and it just turned up. I will put it in and try again this arvo....damn who said this black powder thing was fun and easy.. :surrender: ...good shooting and glad tidings from downunder, :thumbsup:
