Well ive got some good news for ya. I too am on a budget and am saving up for a pickup truck so I dont have a lot of extra cash layin around. Well I too Live in PA and needed a Flintlock. Most cheap muzzleloaders are those inlines but I was at My local gun shop and they had a clearance on all flintlocks(Flintlock season had closed about 2 days before). I saw a Traditions Deerhunter flintolck 50 cal for about 109$. I thought to myself,&quot;Man I bet thats a peice of crap!&quot; Well Turns out I was talking to a friend of mine at church and hes got one and has used it for several years and has killed several deer with it. So Thought about it and decided to pick it up. The price of 109$ was a sale price, the normal price was 169$. Well I brught it home and did some trigger work on it(which by the way is very easy to do cause it got an adjustable trigger) and its real shooter Im tellin ya and what. Its great to cary in the woods cause ya dont have this friggin long barrel sickin up over your shoulder when its on the sling and your not catchin all kinds of branges on it. Well this is a very long message but I thought Id tell ya that the Traditions Deerhunter is a well made gun and I would reccomend it to you<img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle>.