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Offline chevyone

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« on: January 21, 2006, 03:02:28 PM »
I am looking to buy a muzzeloader and a friend of mine has a Tradition Lightning for sale in a 45 cal.  I don't know anything about these rifles, If anyone has any info on them it would be great.

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« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2006, 03:35:30 PM »
Personally, I'd save your money awhile longer and get something better.  I have one.  It's a pretty cheap quality gun...better to go with a low-end T/C (like a Black Diamond) or a Knight Wolverine.  

Cleaning it is a MAJOR pain...you have to disassmble the bolt and use Q-tips.  If you look into its barrel with a bore light, you will likely see machining errors. Mine had them; so did the other 3 at the store where I bought it.  I had to run a lot of ammo through the gun before it started grouping.  I also had to float the barrel with a Dremel tool.

After 2 years of shooting (300-400 shots), the "pin" on the firing mechanism wore down and now it won't reliably shoot 209s...had to switch to the #11 cap nipple.

When I got done fiddling with it the gun was very accurate, but it wasn't worth it.  The trigger was either unreasonable heavy, or downright dangerous when I tried to adjust it lower.

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« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2006, 02:14:53 PM »
Major pain to clean. Blowback.  OK accuracy. Theirs lots better out there. I havnt shot mine since I got my huntsman 2 years ago.
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« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2006, 04:10:55 PM »
chevyone

Take this with a grain of salt, I am certainly no expert - but for a beginning ML I would work away from a 45 cal.  If you can start with a 50 cal. there are so many more loading options.

A lot of 45's have had accuracy problems with different bullets...
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