Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Muzzleloaders What's the Tikka of muzzleloaders

buy tc,cva,traditions latest models and you'll be good.

The CVA's seem pretty simplistic for maintenance wondering about accuracy with the Optima??

THAT WOULD BE CALLED A DINKA THERE 10,000YARDS PISRIFLES HARD TO FINSHOT

lol

If I was you I would look for a new old stock T/C Omega or a used one in like new condition. I have 14 different muzzleloaders and I would have to say that overall the T/C is the most accurate and simple design. I have come to appreciate the fact that it is NOT a break action design. I have several that are break actions and I feel and a NON break action design has more benefits, especially when cleaning or at the range.

My break-action Knight Vision is much easier to tear-down clean than my fall-action Omega. The Vision can be quick-cleaned, not having the deeper nook & crannies the Omega has around the breech.

GoexBlackhorn is your Knight set up for western I am in Washington

Damn! I don't believe any good true muzzleloader should be compared to a Tikka!!

If by Tikka... you mean simple, and easy to get to shoot well without a lot of fuss... I have played with 5 TC Impacts over the past few years and they have all been super simple and accurate. I believe they all shot 200gr and 250gr SST/Shockwaves over 100ish grains of BH209 VERY well.

TDN That's exactly what I mean

My Savage is very accurate, I like it!!

For factory ML, Knight would be considered top of the line. They are very nice, super accurate, high quality, USA made ML's. The Ultra-Lite is money. If I was in the market, that would be my choice.
You can certainly buy a lesser brand that will be effective. Or you can buy a like new/used rifle. I've picked up some very good top end ML's on the cheap over the years.

Another to consider if you can find one, a like new/used TC Omega. Simple and accurate. BH209 ready.

My suggestion on whatever you get, get a stainless gun. They are much more forgiving than blued.

You might be right. Kinda like comparing an apple and an Edsel.

Show me a 50 yard offhand group of 5 from a Tikka....

The Tikka comment was to for out of box simplicity and accuracy.

My CVA optima with the BH BP with Harvester Scorpion bullets prints pretty groups at 100 and it was dirt cheap. I would buy the same exact thing if I needed to do it again.

Oh.

Well, this wasn't from a Tikka, but it was offhand at 50 yards.



About as simple as it gets.

I have owned dozens of muzzleloaders including models from Knight, CVA, Remington and a pile if TC models from over the last 35 years....The most consistantly accurate rifles I have had were either Remington's or the CVA's with the Bergara barrels, I also liked the feel of TC's Encore rifle ( I have owned a dozen of these) but I found them generally less accurate and more picky about the particular load I was shooting......For the money My vote goes to CVA for now.......Good luck.....Hb

Sad that you had to explain yourself on the tikka comparison........lol. I thought your question was very self explanatory.

The T/C's and CVA's I've had and been around have been straight forward...like a tikka.

Lol

I got the CVA Accura 2 nitride northwest edition