Now this in my personal opinion and i may have just taken the tone wrong. But you got an attitude problem. My first muzzleloader was a cva blazer, introduced in the late 80's at one of the first inlines. I bought this rifle in ooooooh around 1998. It was around 8-9 years old when i bought it brand new in '98 out of a gun shop. I owned that gun for 4 years until a gunsmith tried drilling out a welded breech plug and then realised it. I Emailed cva about buying an replacement barrel and was told they didnt make that rifle anymore and to send it back to them and they will send me a .50 staghorn inline as an replacement. Hmmm i paid $60 for the blazer and they send me a $120-130 rifle to replace a 10 year old gun? Seems like pretty good service to me! The blazer did a good job but the staghorn out did it by far. I've owned 5 cva's and have never had any issues. Unless you count the cva the gun smith screwed up. As for resale value. I only give a crap about that when i buy a new over priced car. I sold off all my inlines and kept the winchester x-150 my ex girl friend bought me. Its the only inline i'll ever need to own. Theres no point in replacing a perfectly good shooting gun because some other company makes a cute dropping trigger. It takes 2 seconds at the most to pull my bolt out of the muzzleloader. And so far ive seen more people complaining about not getting accuracy out of their omegas than ive seen about cva or any other ML company. Now the only thing i did replace on my winchester that i didnt like were the sights. Im extremly near sighted and the front sight was to small and was blurry for me to see. That was a $20 and that was personal issues. No company can make a perfect gun to suit everyones personal needs. Now cva has a cool inline that has a thumb flip up cover that seals the 209 primer. But it has something that the omega uses and that i HATE! Everyone is going back to HAMMERS! thats the reason i bought the winchester. If i want to deal with a hammer, i would stick to a traditional muzzleloader. When im out hunting, i dont want to pull a hammer back and flick off the safety. I want to aim, take saftly off, and fire! Every company out there is using a hammer now because everyone else is. Damn followers!