I found this in a pawn shop for a song, because it didn't work. At all. I wanted it because I know a premium black powder gunsmith who can bring ANYTHING back from the dead.
I got it for a
LOT less than that tag says.
Literally
everything he could do wrong, he did wrong, to include screwing up the stock to make room for the welded on tennon he forgot to dovetail for, or the THREE holes he bored INTO, (all the way inside the bore), so as to screw on the under-rib, the one that one of the thimbles had broken off from, BUT the shop kindly provided it! No ram rod, and the trigger MIGHT catch once in a while, as apparently with the barrel out of place, he had ground hither and yon on ALL of the trigger assembly to get it to fit. This started off as a Kit Carson kit, judged by my gunsmith as something that probably cost about $1,000 back in the 70s, and had been sitting around for a long time. There is an entire thread, (on another forum, sorry), dedicated to how he resurrected this baby in a few months, to this beauty.
This is Da Boy's favorite rifle, the one he calls "stupid fun", and while he likes emptying a magazine like anyone else, he will happily spend hours shooting just 6-8 louds out of this gun. It is also very accurate, and reliable.