Knight Ultra Lite

LAST EDITED ON Aug-10-14 AT 08:05PM (MST)[p]Received the rifle back in June, slapped on the Zeiss with rapid Z 600 via Talley lightweights...total weight 7 lbs 1 oz



The gun handles and shoots like a dream, its pretty close to everything I've always wanted a muzzle loader to be. After messing around with a bunch of different loads, settled on a 300 gr. Parker Ballistic Extreme over 110 gr. of Blackhorn 209. Accuracy is very impressive, and recoil turned out to be pretty mild considering the relatively heavy load out of such a light rig...the stock design/construction with the decelerator on the butt make it pretty much a non issue

Anyway, took her out for a real field test yesterday on my MZ antelope tag, and she performed flawlessly




Killed him from 278 yards when he stood up out of his midday bed after a a sweet crawl across the malpais, cactus and chamisa, with only one rude interruption by a high country rattler that really could have nailed me if he'd been a bit more of a jerk in disposition...I was watching the buck as I crawled and almost put my hand on him when he gave a brief buzz and scared the crap outta me for a second

The people at Knight and Talley are a pleasure to do business with, and the wizard Bob Parker makes some wicked, high BC MZ bullets. He is also one of the nicest and most genuine persons anyone could ever hope to deal with

Cheers,

Adam

Nice speedgoat! Never seen a ultra light with that color of stock, is it a after market stock? Congrats on a successful hunt.

Thanks man!

I think the black stock was just added to the UL lineup this spring, along with the option of the metal being prepped for both irons and scope mounts, instead of just one or the other as before. I also went with the 209 bare primer ignition, but they have full plastic jacket and No. 11/cap options as well.

These ULs supposedly shoot full bores pretty well also; I haven't tried any myself yet, but am looking forward to doing so...this thing is way too much fun!

Thanks and Cheers,


Adam

Nice antelope and a great looking smoker!
Thanks for sharing your success!

Adam,

Thanks for sharing! What a beautiful goat and gun. Congrats!!

is there a lot more steps in the cleaning process than my accure. that's one of the reasons I never wanted a bolt muzzle loader.

Thanks Guys!

And Graysage, thank you for your input back when I was still looking into it...as I indicated then, I wanted to post a bit of follow up once I'd given the thing a good run-thru for anyone that may be interested in this rifle

257, I haven't noticed the cleaning to be too much of a hassle...just slip out the bolt, remove the BP, and have at it. Don't know anything about the accura, so I can't compare between the two

I do know that I wouldn't trade this little rig for any other, including the ultimates and Werks that some of my friends are so fond of...nope, I love the versatility and capability this platform provides, and am looking forward to giving it hell with the full-bores and irons as well

Cheers'

Adam