Last Summer I found an early Eighties GPR kit with great wood, still in the box on G.B. Got it for a little less than new from Midsouth. I bent the tang closer to the barrel, removed the belly from the butt stock and removed what felt like a lot from the cheek pad. Reshaped the snail, Semi-buckhorn rear sight, and silver front. Browned most of it, and case colored the nose cap and escutcheons. Finished with vinegar and iron stain and Pure Tung oil which I purchased by mistake instead of polymerized Tung oil. Shrunk the stock in the hot box trying to dry the Tung oil, then let it finish drying and normalize several months in the house before finishing with 4ought steel wool, Formby's and wax. The rifle feels good to shoot offhand, still breaking the barrel in. I'm using 777, real black is not sold around here, so i get a lot of hang fires. I'm gonna try either Pyrodex or maybe Blackmz next to see if there's any improvement, otherwise suck up the nearly hundred dollars in shipping and hazmat fee's for real black powder. Cap's are $11.50 a tin here and I'm happy to have them, but don't care to waste to many.
