RE: thompson center hawken
But you give up another inch of rifling in the process, and if you don't shoot conicals exclusively then it's a waste.
Patched round ballscan be difficult to load as the ball & patch drop loosely down into the QLA, sometimes moving off the patch.
There is probably not much of a bigger TC fan than I am, however, I will say that the QLA wasa marketing ploy to try and keep attention on their flagging sales oftraditional muzzleloaders becauseeveryone was leaving them and going to other manufacturer's inlines asTC wasn't up to speed yet on inline production.
And consider this...companies copy each other to a huge extent...how many othercompanies have added false muzzles? None.
I've shot TC maxi-hunters out of TC Hawkens on and off for 15+ years and never had a problem loading them in the first place...I owned one .54cal TC Hawken barrel with a QLA and gotrid of it after the first range session...wouldn't have another one.
My .02 cents...