Ron, what kind of scope bases and rings are you using? Weaver style? Looks like medium height rings. Cant tell for sure. Also, how's the trigger?

Knight really does have beautiful laminated stocks for their rifles.

Quake the trigger is a 3 screw completely adjustable trigger.

The bases are # 45 Weaver. Weaver low rings. First i tried #15 Weaver base, but the scope ended up too low for my face and the comb of the stock. The #15 bases are what i used on the Knight Elite, and the Knight Extreme. They worked good, on those rifle, but this rifle seems to have a higher comb; i just couldn't get low enough to see the whole view in the scope.

This stock on this rifle would be great using a larger magnification scope, with a larger objective. However, in my opinion, for deer hunting, a 4X scope will make kills as far as the rifle can shoot.

The trigger on this rifle is better than excellent. Once in a rare occasion there might be a tiny amount of creep, but that is rare. The width of the actual trigger itself, feels good to my finger. I know i can adust the trigger lighter, but i haven't taken the time, nor have i felt the need. It is a good trigger. The trigger on my extreme, i have adjusted so there is zero creep, and a very crisp break at quite a low pull weight. The trigger on my elite i have kinda fought with, but it is very very good, but it has a creep more often than i would like. The way these trigger are working right now, the Exteme is the lightest with zero creep; the Mountaineer is the best hunting trigger, and the Elite trigger is excellent.

Thanks for the reply Ron. I figured since you said the scope was too low at first, that you ended up putting medium rings on to raise it some.

Looking foward to more range reports on this rifle.

Ron, you should have held out for the .45 mountaineer they are coming out with in april :P

There are certainly those who like a long heavy rifle, personally I am a practical realist, to me the extra length and weight of a bolt action in a muzzleloader is something I do not need, I have bolt action center fires because the added strength in a center fire add to the safety and accuracy, this is not true in a muzzleloader it only adds to the weight and length. Of course if that's what you want that is the key difference between you and me. Being 75 and living in the mountains in AR which are not much in comparison to the Rockies but enough to wear me down in a hurry I prefer the light weight and accuracy of the TC's.

Lee,

Yup. Indeed! Agree with all you wrote. When hunting, i much prefer packing an X7.

Well, it was quite cold here this morning, but i had to go shoot some, bein's how i had moved the scope one more time. After the rifle kinda was hitting close at 100 yard, a move was made to 200 yard. The photo show the result of shooting at 200 yard.








Load is 300g Deep Curl, 110g BH, crush rib sabot, and W209 primer. Then i moved about a mile to a location where i could get a longer shot, and set up a jug at 299 yard. First two shots missed, and it appeared they missed right. Driving back to the jug, revealed the bullet hit in the dirt to the right of the jug. The video of the misses indeed shows a miss right, and quite a brisk breeze.

This had me hold left into the breeze, and shoot again. This time the jug fell over. The video of this hit kinda shows the shot hitting low. Examining the jug revealed the bullet did indeed hit low, and left. What toppled the jug was pieces of rock blown into the jug by the bullet. Three of these pieces of rock had enough energy to fly all the way through the jug.













The video of the jug getting 'barked' shows the breeze was much less when this shot was taken, and that the breeze is blowing the smoke from the rifle one way, but the vapor from the 'barked' jug is blowing the opposite direction. It appears if i had held on the jug instead of off to the left, i may have hit it.