Great Plains Rifle

[cyotewa]

I haven't shot a GPR for several years, I was a fat guy then and now I'm a skinny guy. The GPR used to fit perfect and I had to kink my neck to shoot a TC Renegade, now the Renegade fits great and in order to see the GPR sights only the side of my chin touches the stock. I need a cheek piece for the GPR. Do I need to make a leather cheek piece or is there one out there I could buy. Gaining 60lbs back isn't an option.

[Bigsmoke]

Don't know, I'm still a fat guy.

[Semisane]

Don't know, I'm still a fat guy.

  Me too. And the GP fits me perfectly. Better the the Renegade and much better than the TC Hawken.

[prairie dog]

Check The Leatherman web site.  They have one that may be what you are looking for.

[cyotewa]

Thanks PD, I just ordered one.

[cyotewa]

I just got the cheek piece from leatherman, put it on the GPR and now my eye lines right up with the sights. Now the only problem is the big buckhorn sight is just a big fuzzy blob, but not a problem, I also got a lyman 57GPR peep from 'Optics Planet' today. Now all I have to do is drill & tap a hole in the tang and start burning powder in it.

[snake eyes]

Now all I have to do is drill & tap a hole in the tang and start burning powder in it.

Sure like to see some targets when your done burning powder. Don't ask why,but for whatever reason I have never been a fan of peep-sites. [/color]

[Bigsmoke]

snake eyes,
Me neither.  it drove me nuts trying to shoot that M-14, years and years ago.  I could do it, but I didn't like it.
John

[Fletcher]

My son is thin and has a Lymans GPR - LH Flinter with a cheekpiece that came standard on the stock.
Fits him great - don't know what to tell you  

[Roaddog]

I know what you mean abought fuzzy rear sites and peep site will clear that up.I would like to put a peep on my GPR flinter.Is the Lyman 57 a primative looking site?

[forest]

Don't know, I'm still a fat guy.

   

[prairie dog]

"Is the Lyman 57 a primative looking site?"

No.  They will not let you use it in primitive matches.

[cyotewa]

Don't know why peeps can't be used, they were invented and used 15 centuries before gunpowder. Guess that wasn't primitive enough;-)

[Roaddog]

Thanks Prairie Dog. I gess I'll put one on The GPR that I hunt with the most and keep the rest the way they are.

[prairie dog]

Don't know why peeps can't be used, they were invented and used 15 centuries before gunpowder. Guess that wasn't primitive enough;-)

One can make a primitive peep sight.  I haven't seen many for sale.  The argument I hear against the few original rifles with peep sights is "they were added to the rifle after 1840".  I don't have evidence either way.

Some shoots have let me use the Lyman peep on that rifle and others won't. It depends on who is running the shoot.