I do not understand all the bad press the Knight rifle's get. IMO it is all wrong. I have owned and still own a half dozen Knight's. I have also owned more than six TC's. They are both quality rifle's. It has been my experience that the Knight's will out shoot the TC's(over all). I can guarantee the Knight's have better trigger's. As far as cleaning is concerned-the TC may be slightly easier, but we are talking 60 seconds or less.

IMO the TC's far outsell the Knight for one reason. ADVERTISING. Just look in the gun magazines and the TV shows. When the Knight's came out in the mid 80's it revolutionized the MZ market. It took TC a long time to catch up. Now that they have caught up(in ability), I do not think they are going to give it back.

I know for a fact that the Omega's are unbelievably accurate. The couple Omega's I had would shoot as well or even better than my Knight's. The problem I had with those two Omega's was that it was impossible to get a second or third shot down the barrel without completely cleaning them. That was something I could not live with-so I got rid of them. I know there are people out there having the same problem with their Omega's. The other problem with the Omega's is with the trigger.

I also have several Encore's and I really like them. The first thing I had to do when I bought the action(I have 2 actions)was to send it off to get a trigger job. I no longer have MZ barrels for my Encore. I really like the centerfire options, but I could not get the MZ's to give up acceptable accuracy. I personallyknow of two barrels that were sent back to TC for accuracy problems. One of them was mine-the barrel was replaced.

I just purchased one of the Knight Long Range Hunter's. I will probably mount the scope this evening. I have heard it is a great shooter. I will find out next week. Tom.