I had a Tradition E-Bolt 209 since 1997 and my boy still hunt with it.For the price its the best quality/price brand you can get.Last spring I bought a Traditions Pursuit-Pro and had a trigger issue, had it replace but the problem still there .
Shooting BH209 I had 1 out of two shots fired,the other was just the primer.The barrel and the breechplug were clean after each shots with no avail so I returned it to the Pro-shop and bought a Knight ExtremeFPJ.
That does not mean that Tradition is no good ,far from it.The Tradition Vortex seem to be a fantastic ML to shoot.
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