I keep hearing that Tony Knight pioneered the inline muzzleloader in 1985 . Not so. It was then that he saved a fair number of deer an untimely death, by hunters forgetting to turn the screw on the bolt which allowed his gun to fire. In actuality, about 1971, H & R company, pioneered a break action inline muzzleloader based on their break action line of rifles and shotguns. Those muzzleloaders were named the H & R Huntsman and were available in .45, caliber, .58 caliber and 12 gauge shotgun.