WestKentucky
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I bought a you model traditions buckhunter and I’m kinda miffed over it. Literally every muzzleloader I have bought until now has had iron sights, came with a capper (even if it’s junk from factory) and has been at least somewhat usable from the box. Load it, sight it, hunt with it. Not this thing. I have to buy scope bases, scope rings, a scope, and a capper before this thing does anything other than make noise. I would be fine with all that if it was made clear in the product descriptions anywhere. It’s like I bought a new truck and still have to buy tires and a steering wheel.
So I’m not super happy out with the open-the-box experience. So I start handling this thing. It seems pretty nice and it’s appropriately sized so I think it’s a keeper. It’s budget blued steel and plastic, so really not expecting a lot of care on fit and finish but it’s not bad. Gun works smoothly functionally. Looking down the bare barrel I notice a pattern of tooling marks that I don’t really like either. I would expect smooth, but it’s clearly got a step about every 2 inches. I’ll try to take a picture of it.
On the bright side, it’s centerfire (209) and break open. This one will be fairly easy to make barrels for when I get my garage set up. 410, 20 ga, maybe some light or intermediate rifle cartridges…
It’s a cheap gun. I’m actually pretty pleased with it, I just wish it was a whole gun. I guess I’ll stop and get a 209 primer tool at the store and I need to figure out what I’m going to do for sights. Right now I’m expecting to use either 50 60 gr of powder to keep recoil down so range also is going to be limited. I may pull the Romeo MSR off of the AR and put it on this gun for the kids. Seems like it might be an appropriate setup… but I may go with a very basic magnified scope like a 3x or something that my kids are more familiar with.
So I’m not super happy out with the open-the-box experience. So I start handling this thing. It seems pretty nice and it’s appropriately sized so I think it’s a keeper. It’s budget blued steel and plastic, so really not expecting a lot of care on fit and finish but it’s not bad. Gun works smoothly functionally. Looking down the bare barrel I notice a pattern of tooling marks that I don’t really like either. I would expect smooth, but it’s clearly got a step about every 2 inches. I’ll try to take a picture of it.
On the bright side, it’s centerfire (209) and break open. This one will be fairly easy to make barrels for when I get my garage set up. 410, 20 ga, maybe some light or intermediate rifle cartridges…
It’s a cheap gun. I’m actually pretty pleased with it, I just wish it was a whole gun. I guess I’ll stop and get a 209 primer tool at the store and I need to figure out what I’m going to do for sights. Right now I’m expecting to use either 50 60 gr of powder to keep recoil down so range also is going to be limited. I may pull the Romeo MSR off of the AR and put it on this gun for the kids. Seems like it might be an appropriate setup… but I may go with a very basic magnified scope like a 3x or something that my kids are more familiar with.
