Schony,

You won't be dissapointed, as you say they are well made.

I had a couple of other replica guns, a Pedersoli long rifle in 45 cal which had a good barrel but the lock mechanism was rubbish and the cap always got stuck on the nipple. Fortunately where I worked we had a little workshop with a fitter that made everything to a tenth of a thou. He was slow but mustard at fixing things so eventually he rebuilt the lock and turned a few thou off the nipple. After that it worked much more consistently with better lock action. I also had a spanish made replica of a duelling pistol and same story, if you tightened up all the screws on the lock it jammed solid. Once again this lock was reworked and also the frizzen face was too soft so it didn't spark well. My tame fitter cut the frizzen face back and soldered a bit of gauge plate steel to it which was hardened and tempered. Again it worked well after that, but as supplied it was absolute rubbish.

Allan