Reproduction shooting all started out as fads. From what I read, it was the movie "Jeremiah Johnson" which started it. The in-line fad is more recent. I really wanted to know why people were drawn to in-lines. To me, it's no different than picking a sports car over a van.
Thompson Center was one of the best muzzleloader makes in business. I heard a long time ago, maybe 30 years or more, a stock Renegade was a MOA shooter out of the box. I recently saw a few videos, where one of the initial starters of this forum, consistently shot under MOA with a stock Renegade, with the exception of the sights. He used Peeps.
Smith & Wesson comes along and buys Thompson Center. S&W uses T/C to market a somewhat new fad in In-Line rifles. S&W must have seen huge profit potential with their T/C line; However, what S&W did was ruin T/C or at least placed them in a market where they couldn't compete with the quality T/C had always produced. Now, T/C is no longer in business and S&W can't sell them off.
I wanted to know as much about in-lines and the people who bought them. Why did they buy them? What attracted them to an in-line? What drew S&W to buy T/C and in the end, kill the company. And it's all about In-Lines.
That is what my question was all about.