RE: how long have you been using one
Been ML since 1994 or so, just a couple years after I was old enough to be hunting. Shot a Traditions Deerhunter I got for $110 at K-Mart until 2002, killed probably over 25 deer with it. Next was a Traditions Lightning LD, an accurate butdangerous MF that I sold in 2004. Done with Traditions. Bought the TC Omega thumbhole that is my primary now in 2003. Bought another Omega, an X7, in 2006, as my woods gun.