Before you buy a Traditions kit gun you may want to brouse the used market. traditional muzzle loaders are dirt cheap on the used market, everyone want's them new fangled inline jobs. Used T/C Hawkens are $2-300 and Lyman GPRs are often in the $300 range round these parts. I just saw a Miroku made Johnathan Browning .50 cal Hawken at the last gun show for $350. I picked up a .54 caliber Jebidiah Smith Santa Fe Hawken for $300 that was like new.
