It has been a long hard grind since last season to get my gun back in shape but its finally ready to go. Last year was my first year doing muzzy. Early season I leaned my gun on a tree to take a leak and it fell and the front sight hit a rock and stripped out the screw. Was gingerly screwed in and electrical tapped for the rest of early and late season. During late season while I was chasing my cow I took a tumble down a hill through the brush and the front sight fiber optic broke out, the front thimble came off (found the thimble somehow but not the screw), the ramrod came out and was lost as well. I caught up to my cow and luckly that last shot I had loaded put her down where she was because it was not till I looked down to reload that I noticed the ramrod and such was gone (that’s when I found the thimble too, it somehow had lodged under my boot lace as I took the tumble.) Emailed Traditions right away (my work schedule kept me from being able to call during their business hours.) Apparently my emails were filtered into their spam folder. When they finally found them I was helped out by a lady in their customer service dept. She was extremely nice and did everything she could. Sent me the screws for the sight and thimble for free. I purchased a replacement ramrod and had them towards the end of spring. Like a dummy I put lock-tite on the sight screw and threw it in without testing it first. It was the wrong one, too long. It broke off flush with the barrel. Took some time to get it out with a tiny easy-out and emailed the lady at Traditions again. She said that screw matched my serial number but just in case she sent me another of the same one and a second one from a model year older of gun. Got those at the beginning of August but I was out of town and just got them put together last week. And thanks to HntnFsh on here I got a handful of fiber optic rods of different color and put the yellow/green one in my front sight (a lot easier for my eyes to see then the red that came on it) The final thing was that after having a hard time on some shots with the factory rear sight blocking the target and my eyes having a hard time to focus I replaced my rear sight with a peep. After getting it all put together I could hardly keep my hands off of her, she aint anything crazy special but I still think she’s sexy. Now all I have to do is get time to get it sighted in before October. Have 200 primers, 100 NoExcuses 460 grain bullets, and 3 pounds of 777 waiting in the safe for my days off. Yeehaw.
