txcookie (Texas or Transmit... I could see reasoning behind either in that handle
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The amount of guns CVA sells exceeds every other manufacturer by a fairly large margin. The fact that there were <100 cases brought, and many of those on guns that had been recalled, states at how safe they really are. We are talking <.001%. If you think that CVA has sold less than 100k black powder guns, you're misinformed. People accept worse reliability than than on their defensive handguns.
Think of it this way, when you load a BP rifle, it's about equivalent to reloading a cartridge for a handgun. There's has been lots of kabooms from glocks, but the reload is always blamed. There haven't been a bunch of kabooms with cva guns, but people try to blame the gun instead of the load.
Of the whopping 59 known cases, only 23 (less than half) are verified to not be recalled guns. 23 guns out of how many have been sold??? I bet we can get at least 1k sales accounted for here on the board by actual owners. I would say that at the worst, the failure rate is .0023 failures per gun. At best case it's probably closer to .000023 failures per gun. When you take into account that there is a lot that can be done on the users end to make a kaboom, you might be looking at an actually much smaller number if you count out user error. Remember, CVA is priced for the beginning of the market...It'll be first time owners, who are much more likely to make a mistake than experienced shooters, who are using these guns just due to market segment.
Frontier - excellent link... .you wouldn't happen to be that "gander" would you?