I would like to get into muzzleloading and I have had great success with my Tikka is there a manufacture of muzzleloaders that equals Tikka for accuracy and reliability.
For me, it's been my LHR Remption, but unlike a Tikka rifle, you're playing in a whole different field.
Nobody picks up a muzzleloading rifle with the expectation that it's going to be a 100% surefire thing. A Tikka may be close to that for what it does, but part of the sport of ML'ing is the fact that it ain't a 100% proposition. You've got a lot more variations in powder, primer, etc. etc. that make it more uncertain. A Tikka fires stuff out of a brass case and the primer and powder are sealed in. The Tikka also has to cycle round after round through the magazine. With a ML, you make it go bang and then fiddle-fart with the whole system getting it ready to fire again.
In that last respect, it is a lot more the whole success of the system hinges on the nut holding the rifle than anything else. It's about consistency, attention to fine detail and dogged determination more than the precision of the hardware.
I used to work in a solder factory. The VP used to tell us: if you fart favoring your left ass cheek while extruding your wire, you'd better be ready to fart off that same cheek for the rest of the shift if you want consistent wire (he was a hillbilly so he called it 'WAR'.) That's pretty much what accuracy and reliability in a ML demands.
One other thing: The LHR Redeption/TC Strike has been a major game changer. I had been shooting the same TC Hawken since 1984. However, you or the next guy may find another rifle does better or worse. It's a very personal thing. I would not expect your experience to be the same as mine. However, there are LHR Redemptions out there marked waaaay down since the rifle was bought out by TC.
