RE: White Rifles
White Rifles have not manufactured any guns in the last year or so. The guns they are currently selling are "parts guns" made up of whatever they can find. Many do not go bang when you pull the trigger and some do not even function properly. They have went under a couple times. To my knowledge, this is the third attempt at keeping White going.
If your going to buy a muzzleloader, buy one from a company that has a good track record of staying in buisiness. To me this eliminates White, Remington, and CVA (parent company BPI which also owns Winchester Muzzleloading) as viable choices. White has been out of buisness, Remington has left the ML buisness and CVA also went out of buisiness and was bought out by BPI. I'm not fond of Traditions either, but as far as I know they have not went under.