Anyone own or have owned the Evolution?

I traded off one of my flintlocks for one as i needed a rifle with a bigger diameter bore than what my flinter has.

Its bolt action and i had been wanting to get another bolt'er so i went with this trade. Hopefully it will shoot halfway decent.

You have a picture?

I've owned 2 Traditions.

Both were accurate.

Both were poor quality otherwise.

Both had extremely heavy triggers; the sidelock was fixed with a trip to the gunsmith. The bolt action (a Lightning) was adjustable, but became unreliable and DANGEROUS under 6lbs pull.

Perhaps if you get a good deal in a trade, it's worth it. Overall, among the "popular" brands, I put Traditions on the bottom.

i also had 2 and got rid of both of them ..

http://www.chuckhawks.com/traditions_evolution.htm

well i'll give this one a try and see what can be done. I dont mind the blowback and mess, im just needing it to shoot the Thors in. I can probably do a trigger adjustment myself if it needs one.

Just recognize that I wasn't just saying the trigger was heavy -- THE DESIGN WAS DANGEROUS!!! The first one I had worked on by a gunsmith was a simple trigger/hammer sidelock design, he just filed the engagement notch.

The Lighting, a more complicated trigger mechanism similar to most other inlines, had an adjustment screw but when you adjusted it down to a reasonable weight it would fire unpredictably!!! I learned this the hard way when I once disengaged the safety, and the gun fired instantly! Fortunately it was pointed in a safe direction when this happened.

After that incident, you can see why I no longer trust their trigger designs.

i thought i heard a story like that about the evolution. I'll be sure to smack it around and test things out before i load it up. Thanks for the info!

How accurate were they when they shot safely?

very accurate ..the 250 gr HORNADY SST was my favorite bullet shooting into paper at 100yards ..both the PRO and the PURSUIT were accurate. ..

I had a traditions Pursuit pro and i was very well made and a nail driver right out of the box . It had a steel receiver and was over 8# For some reason i thought i needed a encore so i sold it to a friend .