Cayugad, I think he is asking us to tell him he needs a new rifle You know how this works, he can then tell the wife "I really need a new safer rifle, all the people on the internet say so".

Yes I think you need a new easy to clean rifle because, well, one muzzleloader in your gun safe would get very lonely. It needs a friend.

Both the Encore and Omega are easy to clean and very good guns. Don't take my bashing of my Omega's plasic stock wrong it is still an exellent rifle. I just prefer real wood to plastic.