But don't get me wrong, I generally like CVA, my son and I also put together a CVA "Frontier Carbine" .50 Hawken style caplock short rifle from a kit when he was 12 and it's a great shooter. He got his first buck with it at 13, and it hangs right under my flintlock on the mantle. It looks good and feels like a quality rifle still to this day.
Don't tell him, but while he's in the Army I "borrow" it now and again to shoot it, and if it's raining during the ML season I more often than not grab it instead of my flintlock!
