Good questions. Just hunting, not into the rendezvous stuff. I want the Hawken to shoot conicals and the GPR to shoot PRB’s. I’ve shot both both those in the past so am familiar with them.OP, almost all of my experience with muzzleloaders has been with traditional ones - can I ask what your intended purpose is for these guns? Is it hunting, rendezvous, just personal interest, etc? Are you open to alternatives, or are these two guns in these specific calibers what you're locked into for very specific reasons?
This one is extremely close to the Lyman Great Plains - lots of good options out there for traditional muzzleloaders:
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