They all have thier good and bad points. I really like my traditions stuff. I havnt had a minutes issue with it my wife is now starting to shoot my traditions deer hunter percussion nice low cost way to get started the deer hunter with the starter kit is around 200 and will get you started and work fine. But if you can and want to start out with a better unit by all means do so Just take a gander at traditions higher end stuff too I am impressed with them.