Dixie's quality was all over the map, but Turner was pretty much religiously honest about describing products in his catalog. He did a very good job of providing low cost muzzle loading guns and accoutrements that started many of us in the 60's and 70's on the road to learning about these guns when we could not afford the best. I built my .32 poorboy entirely from Dixie parts in the early '80's using Lancaster parts. I built the lock from a kit that cost something like $34 at the time, it is a good medium quality lock and good sparker on its second frizzen. The Dixie barrel blank was the cheapest available then, besides Numrich, which were a roll of the dice, and it shoots #1 buckshot quite accurately.
