here is something funny that happened with this gun. after dad shot the boar he went home and cleaned the rifle and reload and went hunting the next afternoon he didnot see anything so he went today to discharge the rifle. he called me and said the rifle dry fried. i told him how to get the bullet out. he called me back and told me some how he forgot to put the powder in the rifle in the first place. i told him, as serious as i could at the time, it hard to shoot without powder. priceless