Now I would like to give credit where credit is due.

Awhile after the CVA Accura LR came out I bought one from CVA. When I got it I proceeded to clean it. A new bronze brush with 10 strokes would be cut to pieces and have no resistance what so ever. I cleaned and cleaned but the barrel would not come clean. I called CVA and expressed my concerns, they were not as concerned at the time. I did not have to shim the breech plug bushing.
I took the gun out and shot it, it was a clean shooting gun but a POS. Trying to clean it was even worse. I called CVA and expressed my concerns again. This time they said send it back to them. When UPS returned my gun wouldn't you know it was a new one, cleaned right up and shot nice. I would recommend a CVA gun for great Warranty, quality, and Customer Service. Also the Breech Plugs actually last awhile.



A few years later I bought a TRADITIONS Strikefire black with stainless barrel. It cleaned up nicely and when I tried to shoot it guess what, POS. After quite a while and a nice supply of targets I contacted Traditions, told them of my problems. They said to send the gun too them with some of the bullets and sabots that I used along with the scope I was using on the gun. I got together a number of bullets and sabots that I was using and informed them that I was using 110 grains of BH 209. I also put my targets on a disk so they could see exactly what I was talking about with the various bullets. Boxed it all up and sent it to Traditions.
It wasn't long after that their gunsmith called me and informed me that he had shot the gun and came up with the same results as me. He even tested it with some bullets Traditions sells and said the results were still the same. He told me that they were sending me a new gun, but instead of a black stock, they were sending me one with a camo stock. Also with a lot of shooting their breech plugs last about a year and the gun did not require any shimming to make it shoot clean. The new gun shot very well.
I think I would also recommend Traditions because of their Warranty, Quality, and Customer Service.

I know my luck of buying a muzzleloader runs at the low end of the stick, I am 67 years old and I think buying new muzzleloaders Is a thing of the past.