I need help with muzzleloader Q

[HANDGUNNER]

Thanks for the replys. I have Thompson Center Distributer close by. I'll stop in and look around. After reading your replys I'm leaning more toward precussion for ease of use with my son, (he's use to 20 g. shotgun and .22 lr.)

He's really excited about the black powder shooting. He went on a field trip at School and got a suveneir Musket Ball (.69 caliber,) and patch. He loved the musuem exhibits with men with their flintlocks from the civil war, 18th & 19th century hunters and farmers... When I told him I had a black powder gun (IN-LINE w/scope,) he was very quick to point out that it really wasn't a black powder gun, didn't look like a musket, and wasn't very good looking compared to the guns at the Musuem. Man did he get me on that.

I stopped by the local gun shop today and they had a nice looking Traditions Deer hunter .50cal, but I don't know what the quality of Traditions is, (not as well known to me as Thompson or CVA.)