This past Christmas my wife had me go buy muzzelloaders for me and my son for our present's. Bought 2 and all the stuff to get started also put a Bushnell Throphy 3-9X40 on my sons.I went with this because a local dealer had them for $119 on sale I thought it would be a cheap way to get us into M/L. They seem to shot well with 2 T7 pellets and Honady 300xp bullets. Sofar my only complaint is the cheap plastic front and rear sights,other than that i'm impressed with the rifle. Just remember it's a low end gun and I wouldn't try to push 150 g of T7 through it. Ours seem to shot good groups at 50-100 yds. Right now we need more range time with them, I came see that will be a small expence, but alot of fun.I would buy one again to start out with but now i"m thinking of looking at mabe a Hawkins in the future.