I tried one yesterday at the Dallas Safari Club, and found it totally unusable in an emergency - lethal, in fact. The mechnism is so stiff that it takes a major effort to cock it, and I could barely do it while mounting the rifle. Fine if you have warning that you will need to use the gun, but in thick bush a buffalo could appear in a flash at very close range -no time to wrestle with the cocker. I will stick to a traditional action.