Originally Posted by
Shack56
Hey all, a very good friend of mine past away and I was given a Knight Wolverine from his estate. It's blued, camo stock, brand new in the box never shot, all the stuff that comes with a new one is still there in unopened packages. It also has a QDMA medalion in the stock so he may have won it in a raffle I don't know.
That would be my bet... that is was a raffle rifle. Back at that time Knight was a very big contributor to organizations like that.
I know nothing about this gun and Knight doesn't even list one on they're website.
The Wolverine which was the last model of the LK series has been replaced but the Big Horn and the Little Horn rifles.
I just would like to know where it ranks with the rest (good, bad, indifferent). Is it something to be left in the box or take it out and shoot it?
That whole series of rifles from the original MK series through the Big Horn have been excellent rifles. Well built, accurate, and extremely simple - yet, for the part, offer Green Mountain Barreld actions, fully adjustable triggers, and other quality points.
It is old technology, if you look at it that way, in that is often referred to as a 'plunger gun'. The hammer assembly is nothing more than a hammer that falls on the cap or primer to begin ignition. Simple but effective.
Unfired it has somewhat of a greater value, than just NIB. But yet time has sped on buy so it certainly is not as expensive as it was. The medallion, also might create some interest to a memember of the that group.
I have a T/C Encore with a muzzleloader barrel I use but have never shot this type of inline, so if I do shoot it is there anything I should watch out for?
Thanks for any and all the help, Steve
It is a great little rifle and you might really be surprised at its accuracy. If you have a use for it, I certainly would shoot it. I can not imagine that the value of the gun would increase substantually with time.
The plunger guns were basically designed as Percussion guns, using the #11 or Musket cap. Pressure to get modern induced Knight to offer it with 209 ignition, either with a plastic jacket (FPJ) or a bare primer (NFPJ). There is a bit of risk using 209 ignition with an open breech primer and that should be considered. Myself a few years ago would say the heck with the risk and bring on the 209's - Today I have moved back the other direction and have converted mine back to #11 caps (magnum caps) shooting T7-3f.
Yes, you can shoot BH from them, you must use the 209 ignition upping the risk a bit and then adding the fact that BH increases the risk a bit as it burns longer than other powders increasing the amount of blow back pressure on the nose of the primer, which could cause the primer to 'spit' off or out of the BP and possibly into the open air.
But all-in-all it is a great little gun. It should shoot anything that you might shoot in you Encore ML barrel with the same charges and probably produce the same results.
my 2 cents