CVA makes great muzzle loaders. They had some barrel issues some years back but that's all been fixed and shouldn't deter anyone thinking of buying one. Bergera now makes all of CVAs barrels. Bergera is a huge barrel company that makes high quality stuff, your not going to have any problems with the new stuff. I'm pretty dang sure that almost all of the CVA barrel blow ups stemmed from operator error. CVA used to make different model guns that were labeled as "magnum" and others weren't labeled