NEW Traditions Mountain rifle?

[chazz1975]

I am thinking you may be right. Ardessa calls this rifle a "hawken" in Europe, minus the patch box (which truth be told, I think the patch box on most modern repro hawken-types looks hideous and serves little purpose other than decoration). I have seen one of the Ardessa rifles recently for sale on another site, a 50 cal percussion, if my memory serves correctly. Same 32 inch barrel, stock lines look similar if not exactly the same, two wedge pins for barrel retention. Same sights also.

 

[good ole boy]

My hat is off to Traditions. :hatsoff: All of these Co,s that stopped producing traditional side locks and Traditions releases new models every several years has me in there camp and I surely am going to support a Co.that hasn,t abandoned us even though we are such a small minority of sales. :bow:

 

[Danny Jordan]

So...Has anyone bought and shot one of these yet? Range report? Would like to buy one if it is a decent shooter.

I JUST BOUGHT ONE FROM MIDWAY IN FLINTLOCK STYLE, PUT A NEW FLINT IN IT WHEN IT CAME. HAVENT HAD A CHANCE TO SHOOT YRT BUT HROWS A GREAT AMOUNT OF SPARKS TO IGNITE THE MAIN CHARGE, FLINTLOCKS ARE WHAT I PREFER AND THINK THIS WILL BE MY HUNTING RIFLE.

 

[Frontier's]

They are excellent rifles