Since everyone else has done such an excellent job explaining the in and outs when it arrives to include safe loading and shooting advice, I would like to just tell you a few things.

1. Make the first projectiles buffalo ballets or pa conicals. You will find that your new bore has sharp edges along where the rifling is cut. Hard to find a cut rifling barrel for the price of a Huntsman but there you go, and my Sidekick's bore is very uniform. You can just push a cotton ball down the bore and it will be clear it news to be smooth out. A good load for ballets is 60 grains Pyro P (by the way, its a hunting load and will easily kill deer to 100 yards) The effect of shooting the cheap conicals is to smooth out the bore and is an alternernative to more agressive techniques like JB bore paste.

2. Save PB's and sabots for later, when the bore is smooth(more like a buttoned barrel) Ifound early on, that PB'sand sabots were difficult to load and exited thebore with unusually low velocityfor the charge. I even broke the ramrod trying to seat, of all things, a 295 PB, so use a range rod, by all means. The plastic, i think, will get to liking the bore better after its had a few conicals through it. Since the bore need breaking in, an inexpensive conical just does the trick without getting into your pocket book.

I think that you will find it excells with conicals, which in my way of thinking, is a sign of a quality bore (not to say that they didn't save money elsewhere in production), but it definitely has a well built bore and an awesome trigger. I don't have any sabots around right now so I cant tell youhow well it will do with them. But I will try them in the future and share the experience.

Good luck with your new Huntsman. Please share your loads, and experience in the forum, I and other are interested in your experience.

Phil