Oh come one, frontier gander, I wanna piss

I bought the CVA Buckhorn a year ago. I'd owned a CVA Staghorn 'magnum' for several years; it shot well, accurate, and I like it. Killed deer with it. Unfortunately when it was new and I was new to muzzleloading, I let it go a few days without properly cleaning, and it rusted. I cleaned that up and shot it another two years - worked fine, but never looked as good. Then right after 2005 season the local wallymart had the Buckhorn onsale for $70-some odd dollars... ridiculously low, I thought. Compared to the Staghorn... the Buckhorn had a nicer stock - made of a kind of semi-grippy, comfortable synthetic - much better than Staghorn. Studs for swivels built into stock. It also had a better safety, smaller open area where the striker is, diff barrel contour, and a MUCH better/stronger (aluminum) ramrod with metal guides. Additionally, it had better sights (which I removed when I put on 1.75-4x32mm Bushnell Trophy scope). The trigger was 90% as good as the Staghorn's, which is a compliment; the Staghorn's trigger was very light and crisp, much better than that the Savage .270 I'd sold off (which wasn't bad).

Bottom line - for well under a hundred bucks I got a comfortable, accurate rifle. Yippee. Got me five or six pounds of Pyrodex RS while I was there, at $5/pount. I used 777 that previous season... but at the price, I switched to Pyro. It has worked very well so far this year!

My $.02 of pissin'