These were solid guns but very simple. This was the first and only kit gun I ever built, in fact, 1976 or so, in .50. Because they are drum and nipple, no hooked breech, simple trigger, no underrib, etc I'd place it below the Lyman GPR in terms of price, despite the better lock. The buttplate is very narrow and curved. I restocked mine a few years later and it's my only percussion rifle and shoots great- also fitted it with a .54 Green Mountain barrel and a 20 ga smoothbore.
