A Pro Hunter is a Thompson Center, unless someone else makes one. Now I did see a Knight that was blown up on the Internet. The person used smokeless powder to try and shoot. That's operator error. I do wonder how many of the BPI incidents could be attributed to that same operator error. And of course were shown a couple BPI rifles with barrels split like a banana peel.

Someone a while back said a statement to the effect, perhaps the reason the BPI rifles are more prone to being damaged is because of the people that purchase them. Meaning new to the sport shooters buy CVA. And that might be very true. I do not have statistic to back it up.

Face it, my first inline rifle was a CVA. I bought it because of price.I knew nothing other then it was a magnum and could shoot 150 grains of powder. It would tend to make sence that if inexperienced people entering the muzzleloader field select on price, and then load them improperly, there are bound to be more accidents with them, and new shooters are far more prone to making simple but sometimes costly mistakes. That statement has really sparked some thought with me that who ever made.

Frontier Gander.. did you expect the rifle to shoot that high?