I purchased a mountaineer from a guy on here about a month ago. He said that he had only shot it a handful of times. It was really clean when I got, but he had left the breech plug in and it turned out quite hard. I looked at the threads and everything seemed fine. I haven't had a chance to shoot it until today. I shot it about five times and managed to load a bullet without any powder, so I tried to pull the plug out... thats when everything went wrong

You wouldn't believe how hard it turned out! I got it about two turns out and then couldn't turn it anymore. I was using a ratchet and a socket and still couldn't budge it! I used pink teflon tape just like I always have, the plug turned in a little hard, but no harder than any other gun with tape on the plug. When we got back to the house, me and my buddy pulled it from the stock and tried again; after working it back and forth for awhile it finally came out.

The threads on both the plug and the barrel with completely messed up! I have no idea what could have happened...the threads weren't even messed up in the same place, the plug's threads were messed up near the end (barrel side) and the barrel's were about half way. I don't think that there is anyway it could have been cross threaded, because the threads would have messed up the entire way, and I had to have the plug in all the way because I turned it in snug with a wrench and the bolt closed easily.

I am just about sick about it, I called knight and left a message. I really hope that they can do something about it, I really don't want a $600 paper weight.