When you consider how all the makers rifles were single shots it made it hard to justify the extra expense of one of their really.
My CVA Magbolt I paid $110 for a few years ago will kill anything out to 150 yards just as well as the Knight would at 4 times the cost. Our state has also begun to allow people to use 45/70s for black powder season and now you can even bow hunt with a crossbow even if you don't have a physical disability that prevents you from drawing back a compound or recurve/longbow.
A dead animal is a dead animal, they don't know if they are getting shot with a $500 BP rifle or a $100 rifle. Much like shotguns some of which are WAY over the top in costs. My Mossberg 500A that cost a couple hundred will kill anything a $1000 Benelli will and I don't mind beating it up when in the field. Plus it is very versatile in that I have a ported rifled barrel with scope for slugs, vented rib barrel with interchangeable chokes for wing/clay shooting and can even add a BP barrel if I wanted. It doesn't get much more versatile than that for the money I can have essentially 3 guns for 1/2 the cost of the higher end shotguns.
The real shame is that they did a lot from what I could see to promote hunting and shooting of BP rifles and were very innovative at that.
Dee
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