redoing a lyman great plains rifle stock

What weight are those Powerbelts and how many grains of powder? FF or FFF?ġ7 January 2014, 08:52 TundragrizHave only used the original ramrod while hunting. I'd like to use the same bullets with the Lyman should I decide to go with one. I can use the rod that came with the rifle to load instead of one with a T handle or oversized range handle. I have some Hornady SST's that I use in my Encore and they were a total pain in the butt.Īfter some research I went to a Harvester sabot. I don't like having something that has the potential to break while loading. Is that the rod that came with the rifle? I've noticed with some older Stevens' and other guns that once the finish is removed there's a decent looking piece of wood hiding under it. I'm going to try a custom rifle that belongs to a friend with a similar stock to see how that works out. I was wondering how that hooked stock would feel and how it would work with a coat. Not sure how many deer I’ve taken with it, but a fair number.ġ3 January 2014, 23:46 Race BannonThanks guys. It is very accurate with a number of full bore conicals, I like the powerbelts best. So with some customizing I like it a WHOLE lot. HIGHLY recommend this because the extra sight radius really improves accuracy. Was shocked at the hidden beauty of the wood underneath.īecause of old eyes I put the Lyman 57 peep sight on.

Cutting off the buttplate required refinishing. It would leave a pile of it on the end of the barrel when the ramrod scraped going down and you could scrape it off with your fingernail. The original finish was very dark and greasy. So I cut off the metal buttplate and put on a recoil pad, inlaid a piece of Australian lacewood where the buttplate came up over the top of the stock. It didn’t fit into my shoulder with both points spearing me on recoil, had no interest in moving it out to my upper arm, would snag coming up on heavy winter clothing (our season here starts Dec 26), after a couple years the steel started to rust from being gouged from resting it on rocks. I didn’t like the U shaped hooked metal buttplate. That made the trigger VERY nice, similar to what the renegade always had. I took it apart and ground the sear shorter and polished the mating surfaces. It would drag and snag a few times before firing. The trigger was very bad, had a long heavy pull but the worst was that it was like pressure between 2 gritty surfaces. Renegade has a short barrel that works great in northeast treestands and brush but I wanted something longer for western hunts. 13 January 2014, 03:30 TundragrizI’ve had mine for 10 years.

Redoing a lyman great plains rifle stock