Knight makes nice MZ's. I have two Knight MK 85's that I have had for well over 20 years. I have been so focused on the smokeless MZ's for the last 7-10 years that I am not up on all of the newer models from the primary gun manufacturers. I know Knight used to use Green Mountain barrels and exalt their accuracy but I really don't know what they use now.
Knight, T/C are recognized as kind of the leaders of the pack in quality followed very closely by the higher end CVA's. They all work exactly the same and I think most would be hard pressed to see much if any accuracy differences in any of them. As 5cent stated earlier there a lot of pieces to the puzzle to achieve the maximum performance from any MZ. the gun itself is but one peice and very often is not the most important piece, they all work well just some offer more user friendly features than others. I would feel very confident buying any mid level of higher model from any of the big 3 with knowing they would work just fine.
The introduction BH 209 did allow me to pick up a Remington 700, 45 cal and have the bolt face modification and new breech plug made to accept 209's. With the added velocity of the BH 209 I am able to put a Barnes 195 gr bullet in that 45 caliber and it is one sweet shooting 150 yd, low recoil gun. I would not have done that with only Pyrodex or T7 being the only powders available to me. I set that up for my DIL but I really like it for me if I don't feel like carry around one of my heavy savage MZ's
MZ's are not all that complex, you dump crap down the barrel, make it go boom and the crap comes out of the barrel. Most of the time the crap you dump down the barrel and the OPTICS are more important that the barrel itself. This is all assuming that they guy behind the barrel can at least shoot a little bit.
