RiverBottem,

The kits are nice in that they give you a lot of what you need to start MLing. What they don't include is the gun powder, 2f for the barrel. The oil for rust prevention, breech plug grease, and Black Powder cleaner.
The bullets are not necessarily the best ones, and you will shot them out quickly. The scope is definately the low end but they do work. Also, regarding Traditions, the only problems I had with my flint, was the sights, the lite optics are garbage. I switched mine to Tru-Glow and it's a nice shooting gun.

I don't know the regs for Ill versus PA, but I do know in PA there is a season where you can use an in-line and another for flint.

I purchased my first ML via a kit at Gander Mountain, the Traditions Deerhunter. I use everything from the kit.

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