I am a Washington State hunter with a Knight Bighorn. Kind of new to the sport as well, but I have to say that I am very pleased with the bighorn. It shoots 460 No Excuses conicals very well. Today I did some experimenting and found that I shoot the 375 gr Buffalo SSB Saboted all lead pretty well as long as you take off the furnished sabot and use a Harvester crush rib sabot. The Buffalo with the out of the box Sabot is too tight to load. The Bighorn has a nice trigger pull, and is pretty accurate out of the box. I got mine through Bud's guns in Kentucky over the internet. I paid 328.00 for the stainless steel with phantom camo and thumbhole stock. Went a little fancier than is required, but I really like the setup.