RE: CVA quality?
Go ahead and buy one. Do you think a big gun company wants to kill it's customers?
I have an old CVA sidelock that has been though hell and back has had every part rusted sanded blued rusted again put up for 4 years with a broken ram rod in it cleaned and blued again and still shoots as good as the first time I ever shot the thing. Actually it shoots better than ever thanks to Cayugad telling me about using FFF powder in it instead of FF. Lock time is pretty much zero in that rifle.