I too had a bad experience with a Traditions inline. I ordered many years ago, a Traditions E-Bolt 209 inline rifle. It, it came to the house, and I cleaned it up. But the disturbing thing was, when you'd cock the rifle, you better put the bolt in the safety notch. Because that thing would fire by itself. I mean you didn't have to touch the trigger. It would just go off.

I called Traditions and they were not real helpful. In fact they doubted my claim but did offer to look at the rifle is I mailed it to them. I had purchased it at Sportsman's Guide. So I sent it back to them (lost postage of course one way) and they gave me a full refund. I had to laugh because they asked if I wanted a different rifle. But I told them, no thanks one was enough. Yet a friend of mine purchased the same rifle in .54 caliber and it worked perfect. He killed a lot of deer with it shooting my .54 caliber
REAL conicals.

Now in their traditional rifles, I own three of four of them. Two of them are the Woodsman Hawkens Rifles. One percussion and on flintlock. They are beautiful wood, perfect hardware to wood fit, excellent triggers and locks and just a pleasure to shoot.

I have taken one doe with the .50 caliber Woodsman percussion rifle 1-66 twist. It was a close shot and I put the ball in the back of her head and she went right down.

A friend I used to hunt with uses a Kentucky model with the 1-66 twist in .50 caliber. I was hunting with him one day and watched he knock a deer flat at 100 yards with that rifle. I have shot it and its a percussion, and a great shooter.