Knight and Sportsmens Warehouse - poor quality, poor customer service

[Mfowl]

Sorry to hear about your continued troubles with this gun! Must be a headache! I hope everything turns out well in the end and your bull makes you forget about all this!

I hope so too. I'm looking for a second backup rifle to take since my confidence in Knight is low.

If you can find one the CVA Elkhorn Pro is a decent gun for about $200. One of my hunting partners has one and I was impressed with its accuracy. It also came with all 3 ignition systems. He has yet to actually take an animal with it though. Good luck! We're pullin for ya!

[ctwiggs1]

It's really shocking to hear about this.  My Knight Bighorn has never been a problem, but these issues you're pointing out are making me nervous for the day that it does.  It's a little nervewracking to know that if I need a new BP, I may not get the same size as I had before.  The fact that they are so far off makes me wonder who the heck is  manufacturing these things.  Most of the local machine shops are dealing in fractions of thousandths, so how they can be off by as much as 4 thousandths on the "newer" design?

I'm REALLY sorry you're going through this Bob.  Thank you very much for posting this though - I truly hope that Knight as a company sees this review and starts taking a second look at their QA.

Curtis

[Sabotloader]

It's really shocking to hear about this.  My Knight Bighorn has never been a problem, but these issues you're pointing out are making me nervous for the day that it does.  It's a little nervewracking to know that if I need a new BP, I may not get the same size as I had before.  The fact that they are so far off makes me wonder who the heck is  manufacturing these things.  Most of the local machine shops are dealing in fractions of thousandths, so how they can be off by as much as 4 thousandths on the "newer" design?

I'm REALLY sorry you're going through this Bob.  Thank you very much for posting this though - I truly hope that Knight as a company sees this review and starts taking a second look at their QA.

Curtis

This problem does not exist in the Big Horn - the breech plugs are not even the same size.  A 'plunger gun' like to Big Horn the length of the breech plug is not really a consideration.

The problem is much more critical in a bolt action rifle that the hammer only moves out of the bolt a few thousands of an inch.